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Associated Press:
Bush: 'I'm the decision-maker' in Iraq troops — President challenges lawmakers to give 'surge' plan a chance to work — President Bush, right, meets with Defense chief Robert Gates, left, and Army Lt. General David Petraeus at the White House. — NBC VIDEO — Jan. 26: President Bush speaks to reporters on Friday.
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq — Administration Strategy Stirs Concern Among Some Officials — The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across …
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Think Progress:
President Bush: 'I'm The Decision-Maker' — In remarks to reporters this morning, President Bush said he would ignore Congress' opposition to his escalation plan, saying, "I'm the decision-maker." Watch it: — UPDATE: Flashback to 4/18/06: "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best."
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Bush: 'I'm the Decision-Maker' on Iraq — President Bush today rebuffed congressional opponents who want to stop his plan to increase U.S. troop strength in Iraq, declaring that "I'm the decision-maker" on the war effort and challenging skeptics to produce their own plan for success.
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The Carpetbagger Report
Stella Dawson / Reuters:
DAVOS-U.S. invasion was "idiot decision"-Iraq vice president — Source: Reuters — The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was an "idiot decision" and Iraqi troops now need to secure Baghdad to ensure the country's future, Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Thursday.
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Hagel Ponders White House Run As War Criticism Raises His Profile — His Republican colleagues regard him warily. The White House barely speaks to him. He is reviled by his party's conservative base. — Looks as though Sen. Chuck Hagel is on a roll. — Both parties have their Iraq war contrarians.
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The Most & Least Desired 2008 Republican Nominee (First Half Of 2007 Edition) — Right Wing News emailed more than 230 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a ranked list 1-5 of the candidates that they would most like to take the Republican nomination …
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Ex-Cheney Aide Contradicts Libby — A former spokeswoman for Vice President Dick Cheney gave testimony in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. on Thursday that directly contradicted Mr. Libby's version of events during a crucial period that is at the center of the perjury case against him.
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Associated Press:
House Speaker Pelosi visits Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) and Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), both vocal war critics, were in the Iraqi capital Friday at the head of a delegation of House members on a fact-finding mission …
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Waking the Giant
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
WHAT NASRALLAH HATH WROUGHT — Students take cover behind a makeshift concrete barrier in Beirut yesterday during clashes at Beirut University. — Neither side planned it. Neither side wanted it. But in their darkest nightmares, both sides must have realized that the potential …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Secrecy Is at Issue in Suits Opposing Spy Program — The Bush administration has employed extraordinary secrecy in defending the National Security Agency's highly classified domestic surveillance program from civil lawsuits. Plaintiffs and judges' clerks cannot see its secret filings.
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Maamoun Youssef / Associated Press:
Insurgents post video of downed copter — CAIRO, Egypt - An insurgent group that has claimed responsibility for the downing this week of a U.S. helicopter in Baghdad that killed five Americans posted a video Thursday on an Islamic Web site showing the wreckage and two bodies.
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Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
FAQ - The Pledge! — 1) I see you right wing bloggers who are demanding a loyalty oath as virtually goose-stepping through the internet. I am gobsmacked. I am filled with heart-ache. — Huh? Are there any questions? — 2) What is the purpose of the pledge? — It is not a loyalty oath.
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Gerard Baker / Times of London:
The vaulting ambition of America's Lady Macbeth — Hillary Clinton's shameless political reconstructive surgery — You can measure the scale of an American president's troubles by the number of skutniks he deploys during his State of the Union address. — Every year during …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Energy Independence? — A Serious Plan Requires Taxes, ANWR and Nukes — Is there anything more depressing than yet another promise of energy independence in yet another State of the Union address? By my count, 24 of the 34 State of the Union addresses since the oil embargo of 1973 have proposed solutions to our energy problem.
Jules Crittenden:
Al Qaeda-Cowed Nation Persecutes U.S. Soldiers — A Spanish court last week issued a "search and capture" warrant against three soldiers involved in the Hotel Palestine incident, in which Spanish cameraman Jose Cuoso and Reuters's Taras Protsyuk were killed.
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Power Line
David Segal / Washington Post:
The Right & the Wrong — Conservative Talker Glenn Beck Puts His Own Failings Up Front — The set of Glenn Beck's talk show on CNN Headline News looks like the rooftop patio of a posh apartment, complete with simulated bricks and a huge photo-realist mural of a SoHo block.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Feingold Pushes Plan to Cut Off War Funds — Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., has scheduled a hearing next Tuesday in his Judiciary Committee subcommittee to explore whether Congress has the authority to cut off funding for the U.S. military campaign in Iraq. The move comes as Congress prepares …
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Fox to air controversial excerpts from 'Path to 9/11' — It got them by taping a public talk by the docudrama's writer, who showed clips from a scene toned down after ex-officials' criticism. — NEW YORK — In a move that could rekindle a heated political debate, Fox News said Thursday …
Henryk M. Broder / Spiegel Online:
"Hurray! We're Capitulating!" — The prevailing feeling among Muslims is that they are being abused by the West. What should we do about it? We might as well surrender. After all, we're already on our way. … Ten years ago, in the spring of 1996, the world still seemed more or less okay.
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