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Washington Post:
Thousands Protest Bush Policy — Actors, Activists, Politicians and a Presidential Candidate Among Demonstrators — A raucous and colorful multitude of protesters, led by some of the aging activists of the past, staged a series of rallies and a march on the Capitol yesterday to demand that the United States end its war in Iraq.
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Liberty Street, The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh, Pajamas Media, The Impolitic, Jules Crittenden and ScrappleFace
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Peter Beaumont / Observer:
Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders — Boasts of a nuclear programme are just propaganda, say insiders, but the PR could be enough to provoke Israel into war — Iran's efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
It Has Unraveled So Quickly — A PAINFUL measure of just how much Iraq has changed in the four years since I started coming here is contained in my cellphone. Many numbers in the address book are for Iraqis who have either fled the country or been killed. One of the first Sunni politicians: gunned down.
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Brilliant at Breakfast
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Guardian:
'If they pay we kill them anyway' - the kidnapper's story — In the second of two remarkable dispatches from behind Baghdad's front lines, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad meets the commander of a Shia death squad — Fadhel is a slim, well-muscled 26-year-old Mahdi Army commander with a thin goatee beard …
Linton Weeks / Washington Post:
Fonda Reprises A Famous Role At Peace Rally — The Actress Speaks Out Against the War in Iraq — For her next act, Jane Fonda has entered the war against the Iraq war. At the tail-end of yesterday's on-the-Mall rally, organized by United for Peace and Justice, Fonda stood onstage …
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Protest Focuses on Troop Increase for Iraq — Tens of thousands of protesters converged on the National Mall on Saturday to oppose President Bush's plan for a troop increase in Iraq in what organizers hoped would be one of the largest shows of antiwar sentiment in the nation's capital since the war began.
Dinesh D'Souza / Washington Post:
Bin Laden, The Left and Me — As a conservative author, I'm used to a little controversy. Even so, the reaction to my new book, "The Enemy at Home," has felt, well, a little hysterical. — "Ratfink writes new book," James Wolcott, cultural critic for Vanity Fair, declares in his blog.
Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Clinton concedes role in authorizing war — DES MOINES, Iowa - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton blamed President Bush on Saturday for misusing authority given him by Congress to act in Iraq, but conceded "I take responsibility" for her role in allowing that to happen.
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
In Law School, Obama Found Political Voice — The peers who elected Barack Obama as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review say he was a natural leader, an impressive student, a nice guy. But in the 1990 Revue — the graduating editors' gleeful parody of their elite publication — they said quite a bit more.
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Althouse
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D. Aristophanes / Sadly, No!:
Still Standing (Technically) — This isn't a slam, Michelle. No, really: It's just a critique on a few minor points of your Iraq reporting — some constructive criticism for the next time that you and your boy ward set out to demolish the liberal MSM's war coverage during a couple of days in-country.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The Peace March. — Here's the peace march that took place today at about 1 p.m. on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin. This clip shows the whole length of the parade. Note the man at the front, just behind the banners, who is holding a sign that says "Vive Saddam." (It's the third sign from the right.)
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alicublog
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
ANTI-WAR PROTEST: WHERE IS EVERYONE? — I was too young for the May Day protest against the Viet Nam War held in Washington, D.C. in 1971. My friends and I talked about going for weeks prior to the event, seeing ourselves as something as a cross between Che Guevara and Abbie Hoffman.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
On Iran, Bush Faces Haunting Echoes of Iraq — As President Bush and his aides calibrate how directly to confront Iran, they are discovering that both their words and their strategy are haunted by the echoes of four years ago — when their warnings of terrorist activity and nuclear ambitions were clearly a prelude to war.
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The Heretik
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Giuliani Is Cautious as He Weighs '08 Decision — Rudolph W. Giuliani, who developed a national reputation for decisive and reassuring leadership after 9/11, now faces the odd challenge of having to reassure some supporters that he can be decisive about a very different issue: running for president.