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Washington Post:
Lessons of War — TOMORROW MARKS the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, as appropriate a moment as any to take stock. What matters most is finding the best policy now — doing whatever can be done to help Iraq and safeguard U.S. interests in a vital region.
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Marie Colvin / Times of London:
Resilient Iraqis ask what civil war? — DESPITE sectarian slaughter, ethnic cleansing and suicide bombs, an opinion poll conducted on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq has found a striking resilience and optimism among the inhabitants.
Newsweek:
Disorder in King George's Court — At highly charged moments, attorney General Alberto Gonzales can seem placid, passive—at times, just plain out of it. In the summer of 2002, high-level Bush administration officials met to debate secretly a delicate issue: how aggressively could the CIA interrogate terror suspects?
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Congress's Oversight Offensive — Ten weeks into the new Congress, it is clear that revelation, not legislation, is going to be its real product. — While President Bush threatens to use his veto pen to stop some bills and Senate Republicans block other measures from even reaching his desk …
Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda in Iraq May Not Be Threat Here — Intelligence Experts Say Group Is Busy On Its Home Front — Al-Qaeda in Iraq is the United States' most formidable enemy in that country. But unlike Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization in Pakistan, U.S. intelligence officials and outside experts believe …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Hume Launches New Smear: Plame Lied Under Oath — Today on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume continued his campaign to smear Valerie Plame Wilson. Previously, he had falsely said that it was "unlikely she was" covert. — Instead of apologizing this morning, he launched a new attack against Plame …
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Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Gore on the Un-Campaign Trail — Since the documentary he starred in, "An Inconvenient Truth," won an Academy Award, speculation has only increased about Al Gore's potential entry into the presidential race. He is not taking any overt steps toward running, and that may be the cleverest strategy of all.
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CNN:
Poll: Confidence in Iraq war down sharply … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Americans are starkly less confident and proud of their country's involvement in Iraq, according to poll results released Sunday. — However, the poll — results of which were released on the eve of the Iraq war's 4-year anniversary …
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Neal Stephenson / New York Times:
It's All Geek to Me — A WEEK ago Friday, moments before an opening-day showing of the movie "300" at Seattle's Cinerama, a 20-something moviegoer rushed to the front of the theater, dropped his shoulders, curled his arms into a mock-Schwarzenegger pose and bellowed out a timeless remark …
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Bill Theobald / Tennessean.com:
Tenn. mine enriched Gore, scarred land — No major pollution violations, but threat remains — CARTHAGE, Tenn. - Al Gore has profited from zinc mining that has released millions of pounds of potentially toxic substances near his farmstead, but there is no evidence the mine has caused serious damage …
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canada.com:
'Professor Torture' stands by his famous memo — Guantanamo Bay has just marked its fifth anniversary. John Yoo was instrumental in setting up the prison camp that has been widely condemned. (The normally solidly pro-American Daily Mail newspaper in England, for example, has called it …
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Luisa Valenzuela / New York Times:
What We See in Hugo Chávez — THE fervent welcome that greeted President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela during his visit to Argentina a week ago was inexplicable to some Argentines and left others indignant. Many here tend to mistrust populism and demagoguery, finding them redolent of Peronism.
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia Routinely Frees Detainees — Release of Guantanamo Prisoners Undermines U.S. Claims of Threat, Analysis Says — In official documents, Detainee No. 266 was an accused al-Qaeda member who refused to speak to his captors, much less admit or deny terrorism links.
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Lawrence Lessig / New York Times:
Make Way for Copyright Chaos — LAST week, Viacom asked a federal court to order the video-sharing service YouTube to pay it more than $1 billion in damages for some 150,000 videos that Viacom claims it owns and YouTube users have shared. "YouTube," the complaint alleges …
Tom Blumer / NewsBusters.org:
Gathering of Eagles (GoE): An Indicator of Old Media Decline — So how many Gathering of Eagles (GoE) counterprotesters were in Washington yesterday, and how did there numbers compare to the Answer Coalition's protest count? — The New York Times (may require registration) reported …
The Nation:
Congress, End the War — "War is over, if you want it," declared John Lennon in the thick of the Vietnam nightmare. To the extent that Lennon's "you" referred to the US Congress, he was right, then and now. The House and Senate have the authority to end the war in Iraq quickly, efficiently and honorably.
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Stephen Gerlis / Times of London:
Unravelling the confessions of the 9/11 chief — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is finally talking to his US captors.Yosri Fouda, the only journalist ever to interview him, knows why — In April 2002, as chief investigative reporter on Al-Jazeera, I was taken blindfolded to meet Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at a safe house in Karachi.