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3:15 PM ET, January 8, 2007

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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Bush to announce Iraq plan on Wednesday  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush will address the nation at 9 p.m. EST Wednesday about his new approach for the war in Iraq, the White House said.  Bush is expected to announce an increase of up to 20,000 additional U.S. troops.
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Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Troop surge in Iraq would have McCain in tow  —  As a key backer of a buildup, his 2008 chances may ride on its success or failure.  —  WASHINGTON — As a onetime prisoner of war during Vietnam and decorated Navy officer, Sen. John McCain has based much of his political persona …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Democrats Revise Agenda To Deal With War in Iraq  —  With Bush to Announce New Plan, Domestic Policy No Longer Primary Focus  —  Democratic leaders who had hoped to emphasize their domestic agenda in the opening weeks of Congress have concluded that Iraq will share top billing …
US News:
White House Week
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
A Bitter Clash is Coming Over Iraq
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Decision '08
Wesley K. Clark / Washington Post:
The Smart Surge: Diplomacy  —  The odds are that this week President Bush will announce a "surge" of up to 20,000 additional U.S. troops into Iraq.  Will this deliver a "win"?  Probably not.  But it will distract us from facing the deep-seated regional issues that must be resolved.
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John F. Burns / New York Times:
War Could Last Years, Commander Says  —  The new American operational commander in Iraq said Sunday that even with the additional American troops likely to be deployed in Baghdad under President Bush's new war strategy it might take another "two or three years" for American and Iraqi forces to gain the upper hand in the war.
Opinion Journal:
A Heavier Iraq 'Footprint'
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
wnbc.com:
Gas Smelled Over Large Area Of Manhattan  —  NEW YORK — People over a large part of New York City are smelling a gas, but no cause has been identified.  —  Numerous people have called 911 concerned about the odor.  Con Edison, the Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard are investigating.
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WCBS-TV:
Bloomberg: No Danger From Natural Gas Odor  —  Homeland Security: No Indication Of Terrorism  —  E-Mail Us Where You Smell The Odor  —  (CBS) NEW YORK Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that city agencies are all working together to pinpoint the nature of a gas leak that has been wafting across Manhattan since 9 a.m. Monday.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Lede
Robert Collier / San Francisco Chronicle:
Talks with radicals called key to ending violence  —  U.S. must negotiate with insurgents and militias, experts say  —  As President Bush prepares this week to announce a new plan for the war in Iraq, doubts are growing in Baghdad and among some international analysts over whether U.S. attempts …
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Yitzhak Nakash / Los Angeles Times:
If U.S. drops the ball, Iraq shatters
Discussion: Political Animal
David Carr / New York Times:
Slimmer Time in the Age of the Internet  —  Richard Stengel, the managing editor of Time, took his wife and kids out to dinner Friday night.  —  As historic moments go, not a big deal, but it does reflect a seismic change.  Time magazine, which has been coming out every Monday for over 36 years, hit the streets on Friday instead.
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Jurassicpork / Pottersville:
PAUL KRUGMAN: Quagmire of the Vanities
Discussion: CorrenteWire
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich, Study Says  —  Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush's tax cuts, according to a new Congressional study.  —  The study, by the nonpartisan …
Glenn Greenwald / Crooks and Liars:
Pajamas Media and "major embarrassment" — connect the dots  —  (1) Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute (and a Contributing Editor of National Review), on his Pajamas Media blog last Thursday: "BREAKING NEWS -Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, is dead."
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Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:   Iran's Ayatollah appears in good health
Morris B. Hoffman / New York Times:
Free-Market Justice  —  SIXTEEN years as a state trial judge have left me with a deep respect for the professionalism and competence of the public defenders who handle felony cases for indigent criminal defendants in my courtroom.  In fact, I've told friends, only half-jokingly …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Reason Magazine
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
ATTENTION: War supporters - your country needs you  —  (updated below - updated again)  —  One of the two principal architects of the "surge" strategy about to be adopted by the President is Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute.  He recently appeared at an AEI event …
Discussion: QandO, The Impolitic and Eschaton
Judd / Think Progress:
VIDEO FLASHBACK: Bush Says Sending More Troops To Iraq Would 'Undermine Our Strategy'  —  On Wednesday night, President Bush is expected to announce plans to escalate the war in Iraq by sending more U.S. troops.  On June 28, 2005 — just 18 months ago — Bush said that sending more troops to Iraq would …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Candidate's Not-So-Candid Camera?  —  John Edwards is ridiculing his political consultants.  —  "You know, they gave me a really great memo," he says, waving the document, which advises him to highlight the importance of public education when addressing teachers.
Discussion: CBS News, Romenesko and JoeTrippi.com
Peter Brown / Real Clear Politics:
Poll: Critique of Wal-Mart is a Political Loser  —  Democratic presidential candidates who attack Wal-Mart due to concerns about the ill effects of globalization, the firm's business practices and its pay for workers are hurting their own election prospects.
Discussion: QandO and Blue Crab Boulevard
The Blotter:
Dead U.S. Soldier in Anti-War Video 'Alive and Well'  —  Rhonda Schwartz and Maddy Sauer Report:  —  An Iraqi insurgent propaganda video, containing what is described as a Christmas message from a U.S. soldier taped just before he was killed, appeared on dozens of Web sites and on the al Jazeera network.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
 
 
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
In Trying Times, Papers Retreat From Washington
Discussion: CBS News
Charlotte Allen / Los Angeles Times:
I got an A in Phallus 101  —  The list of the 12 most bizarre …
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Will Bush back lifting payroll tax cap?
Independent:
Wesley Clark: Bush's 'surge' will backfire
Discussion: The Corner and TPMCafe blogs
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Discussion: Big Lizards and alicublog
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Terry Jones / Guardian:
They have made a killing  —  The US has spent a million dollars …
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
War's Toll on Iraqis Put at 22,950 in '06
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
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