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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq — Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said a little more than a year after President Bush had launched the invasion advocated …
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Thomas M. DeFrank / NY Daily News:
Last lunch with a legend — Speaks candidly about the WMDs and war in Iraq — DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF … RANCHO MIRAGE, Cal. - Jerry Ford was a politician of rare amiability, but this day he was hopping mad. — "They won't let me go in the pool and swim," …
Newsweek:
From Watergate to Monicagate — Like Gerald Ford, George W. Bush believed his mission was to restore honor and integrity at the White House. The striking parallels between two administrations. — To understand Gerald Ford's place inside the Bush administration, you need to turn the clock back six years.
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Washington Post:
Profile in Decency — We were fortunate in 1974, a time of crisis, to have the right person in the right place at the right time. When the country needed healing, reconciliation and restoration of confidence, Gerald Ford provided it. — He was a principled partisan …
Peter Spiegel / Los Angeles Times:He led by listening — Ford was not afraid of strong-willed advisors …
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Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
Edwards's Theme: U.S. Poverty — Amid Iraq Talk, White House Hopeful Sticks to '04 Issue in '08 Run — For the roughly two dozen candidates considering a run for the White House, it is perhaps the jackpot question: What might be the winning message in a contest whose first nominating vote is still more than a year away?
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Edwards Announces Presidential Bid in New Orleans — Former North Carolina senator John Edwards officially jumped into the 2008 presidential race this morning in this flood-ravaged city, sounding a populist call for citizen action to reduce the U.S. troop presence in Iraq …
Ezra Klein:
The Announcement — Yesterday, John Edwards spent the day shoveling, flattening, and recreating Orelia Tyler's yard. Today, outside that same yard, at 8:03 in the morning, he announced for president. The speech was more casual than most in the announcement genre, at least in my experience.
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Islamists Seem to Give Up Grip on Somali City — The Islamist forces who have controlled much of Somalia in recent months suddenly vanished from the streets of the capital, Mogadishu, residents said Wednesday night, just as thousands of rival troops massed 15 miles away.
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StrategyPage:
Ethiopians Blitz Their Way Across the Country — Ethiopian troops have stood aside so that Somali gunmen representing the Transitional Government can enter Mogadishu. The surviving Islamic Courts fighters have fled south, from whence they came. This does not solve the basic problem …
Bryan / Hot Air:The Fall of Islamist Somalia
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Daniel Freedman / It Shines For All:
Declassified State Department Document: Arafat Responsible for Storming of Embassy and Murder of Americans in 1973 — The State Department has finally admitted (document has just been declassified) that Arafat was behind the 1973 murder of two Americans in Sudan by the Black September terrorist group.
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Joseph Farah / WorldNetDaily:State Department declassifies report on 1973 terror attack in Khartoum
US Department of State:Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume E-6, Documents on Africa, 1973-1976
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Washington Post:
Close Adviser to Sadr Dies in U.S.-Iraqi Raid — A top deputy of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was killed Wednesday during a raid by U.S. and Iraqi troops in the southern holy city of Najaf, sparking protests from Sadr's followers and complicating an already tense relationship with the powerful anti-American leader.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Message Delivered — The US has delivered a message …
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Tony Blair / Foreign Affairs:
A Battle for Global Values — Summary: The war on terrorism is not just about security or military tactics. It is a battle of values, and one that can only be won by the triumph of tolerance and liberty. Afghanistan and Iraq have been the necessary starting points of this battle.
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James Risen / New York Times:
G.O.P. Senator in Spotlight After a Critical Iraq Speech — At the close of the Senate's lame-duck session, in between formulaic tributes to senators departing voluntarily or otherwise, a Republican backbencher suddenly rose to give one of the most passionate and surprising speeches about the war in Iraq yet delivered in Congress.
WRAL-TV:
Attorney General Receives 400 Complaints Against Nifong — RALEIGH — The North Carolina Attorney General's Office has received more than 400 complaints about Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong, according to an attorney general's representative. — Nifong, who critics …
Barbara O'Brien / Crooks and Liars:
Moonies and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy — Robert Parry of Consortium News writes, … The 21-year veteran is former WT reporter George Archibald, who wrote an internet essay about internal turmoil at the newspaper. Parry continues, … Parry goes on to describe Sun Myung Moon …
Examiner:
Yeas and Nays: Thursday, Dec. 28 — WASHINGTON - Jeff DuFour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway each weekday. Email them at yan@dcexaminer.com . — How to be an A-list Washingtonian — Do you want to be the consummate Washingtonian?
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