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11:30 AM ET, February 22, 2007

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Gerard Baker / Real Clear Politics:
The Thinking Behind Blair's Iraq Decision  —  Tony Blair's announcement Wednesday of the planned withdrawal of about 1,600 UK combat troops from Iraq has been greeted with predictable gloating and derision on both sides of the Atlantic.  —  Most of the commentary in Britain …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and QandO
Washington Post:
Ally's Timing Is Awkward for Bush
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Blair: We'll Go Back If Needed  —  Critics of the Iraq war …
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Washington Post:
Clinton, Obama Camps' Feud Is Out in the Open  —  An increasingly acrimonious competition between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to enlist the Democratic Party's leading fundraisers and operatives burst into the open yesterday, overshadowing what was billed as the presidential campaign's …
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Geffen-Clinton snit tests Obama
Discussion: Redstate and Matthew Yglesias
Mark Preston / CNN:   Clinton, Obama camps mix it up verbally
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
National Guard May Undertake Iraq Duty Early  —  The Pentagon is planning to send more than 14,000 National Guard troops back to Iraq next year, shortening their time between deployments to meet the demands of President Bush's buildup, Defense Department officials said Wednesday.
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Christian Lowe / The Politico:
Military Tells Congress of Equipment Shortfalls
Discussion: Redstate
Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
GOP 'darlings' slow to sign tax-cut pledge  —  The two front-runners for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination — Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani — have not signed an anti-tax-increase pledge that has been embraced by several of their rivals.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
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Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:   McCain slams Bush on global warming, Iraq policy
George F. Will / Washington Post:
A Lack of Courage In Their Convictions  —  Indiscriminate criticism of President George W. Bush is an infectious disease.  Some conservatives seem to have caught it, but congressional Democrats might be crippled by it.  —  Consider some conservatives' reflexive rejection …
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Worn-Out Economic Ideas  —  Senator Barack Obama recently said, "let's allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country's middle class again."  —  Ironically, he said it at a time when Detroit automakers have been laying off unionized workers by the tens of thousands …
Discussion: PrairiePundit and Decision '08
Christiane Amanpour / CNN:
Iranian official offers glimpse from within: A desire for U.S. ally … TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — As I sat down recently with a senior Iranian government official, he urgently waved a column by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times in my face, one about how the United States and Iran need to engage each other.
Edward Jay Epstein / Opinion Journal:
The Spanish Connection  —  What the 9/11 Commission didn't consider.  —  The 9/11 Commission relied on information derived from two captured al Qaeda perpetrators for much of its picture of the conspiracy leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Discussion: protein wisdom and PrairiePundit
New York Times:
Iraq Insurgents Employ Chlorine in Bomb Attacks  —  A truck bomb that combined explosives with chlorine gas blew up in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, and officials said it might represent a new and deadly tactic by insurgents against Iraqi civilians.  —  It was at least the third truck bomb …
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Tom Vilsack's Very, Very Bad Idea  —  I didn't watch the Democratic debate (debates?  This early??), but then I noticed (h/t Atrios and Matt Yglesias) that Jonathan Singer at MyDD wrote this: … Price indexing?  Yikes.  Like Matt, I didn't want to leap to conclusions …
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Scooter Libby and Reputation  —  Prosecutions that wreak ruin on a lifetime. … The trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is the closest version of a Red Queen trial this country has had in a long time.  One says that knowing it might start a stampede from past defendants laying claim to the most upside-down prosecution.
Bill Harlan / Rapid City Journal:
Committee kills abortion ban  —  PIERRE—An abortion ban with exceptions for rape, incest and health of the mother was rejected Wednesday morning by legislative committee in Pierre.  —  The Senate State Affairs Committee just voted 8 to 1 to kill HB1293 without a vote of the full Senate.
New York Times:
American Liberty at the Precipice  —  In another low moment for American justice, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that detainees held at the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, do not have the right to be heard in court.  The ruling relied on a shameful law …
Discussion: This Modern World
 
 
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Guardian:
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Ex-lawmakers find work with lobbyists
Cristian Lupsa / Christian Science Monitor:
States begin criticizing Iraq policy, too
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Let's help Hugo butch up his military
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Libby's Fate Now Rests In the Hands Of the Jury
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Italian Left Government Sabotaged By The Italian Left
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