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12:10 PM ET, February 22, 2007

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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
Fox News:
PELOSI CALLS BUSH TO COMPLAIN OF CHENEY'S COMMENTS ON DEMOCRATS' IRAQ STRATEGY  —  WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday phoned President Bush to air her complaints over Vice President Dick Cheney's comments that the Congressional Democrats' plan for Iraq would "validate the Al Qaeda strategy."
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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 …
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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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 …
Chicago Sports Review:
The Great Unraveler  —  KC Johnson is a 38-year-old bowtie-wearing Brooklyn College professor with a Harvard degree.  He has a passion for American history, and he enjoys the classroom.  And due to his own peculiar mixture of annoyance and curiosity, he might be the most oft-cited source …
Discussion: Media Blog and Ed Driscoll.com
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KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:
Double Standards  —  Two cases, both involving allegations …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
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 …
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
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 …
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Bread Scarce in Zimbabwe as Mugabe Holds Party  —  President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe turned 83 on Wednesday to the strains of the song "God Bless President Mugabe" on state-controlled radio, along with an interview on state television, a 16-page paean to his rule in Harare's daily newspaper …
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 …
Smash / The Indepundit:
The One Man Counter-Protest  —  ERIC ODESSIT takes on 300 defeatist protesters in San Diego. … What Eric does next is so simple and elegant, it drives the "artist" nuts. … Ah, so now defeatist protests are considered "art," and passing out flags is "vandalism."  Got it.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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.
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.
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.
 
 
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Guardian:
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States begin criticizing Iraq policy, too
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