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10:35 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  —  As the British announced the beginning of their departure from Iraq yesterday, President Bush's top foreign policy aide proclaimed it "basically a good-news story."  Yet for an already besieged White House, the decision was doing a good job masquerading as a bad-news story.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Blair: We'll Go Back If Needed  —  Critics of the Iraq war have painted Tony Blair's decision to draw down the British troop levels as a repudiation of the war and an end to the Coalition in Iraq.  Democrats wasted no time in pointing out the supposed incongruity of a British withdrawal …
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Cheney slams Iraq plan advocated by Dems
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Times:
In Both Parties, 2008 Politeness Falls to Infighting  —  The sun was not yet up yesterday, and members of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign team were confronted with the kind of attack that most infuriates them: one questioning the character of Mrs. Clinton and her husband.
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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 …
William Saletan / Slate:
The War on Error  —  HILLARY CLINTON'S SORRY NONAPOLOGY.  —  Five years ago, Hillary Clinton supported a Senate resolution authorizing President Bush to use force in Iraq.  So did I. It took me four years to admit this was a mistake.  I've been wondering when Clinton would admit it.
Mark Preston / CNN:   Clinton, Obama camps mix it up verbally
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 …
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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.
democracyinaction.com:
Tell Democrats to Freeze Out Fox News  —  The Nevada Democratic Party is working with Fox News Channel to host a debate with all the Democratic Party presidential candidates in August.  This is, to put it mildly, insane.  Fox News is a partisan Republican propaganda outlet, not a news station …
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Myrna the Minx / Reno and Its Discontents:
MoveOn.org Organizing Campaign Against Airing Nevada Democratic Fox News Debate
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Daily Kos
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.
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
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
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
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
REMEMBERING THE INDISPENSABLE MAN  —  Today is the anniversary of the birth of George Washington.  Of all the great men of the revolutionary era to whom we owe our freedom, Washington's greatness was the rarest, the most necessary, and, at this remove in time, the hardest to understand.
 
 
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