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President Bush Discusses Fourth Anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Four years ago today, coalition forces launched Operation Iraqi Freedom to remove Saddam Hussein from power. They did so to eliminate the threat his regime posed to the Middle East and to the world.
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Nico / Think Progress:
Tony Snow 'Defensive' On Iraq Anniversary, Tells CNN's Ed Henry To 'Zip It' — President Bush will address the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion in a speech today at the White House. — During this morning's press gaggle, Tony Snow told reporters that Bush will use the speech to attack …
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts — Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight …
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Associated Press:
Bush Pleads for Patience in Iraq War — WASHINGTON (AP) - With Democrats pushing for an end to the Iraq war now entering its fifth year, President Bush pleaded for more patience Monday, saying success is possible but "will take months, not days or weeks." — The war has stretched longer …
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Voices From Iraq 2007: Ebbing Hope in a Landscape of Loss
Voices From Iraq 2007: Ebbing Hope in a Landscape of Loss
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USA Today:
Iraqis see hope drain away
Iraqis see hope drain away
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Cathy's World:
In hospital — As earlier mentioned in the comments section, my mother is in the hospital. The doctor says that right now they're just making her comfortable. She's sedated, with painkillers among other things. Lungs collapsed so right now we just want to make sure she has dignity and is not in pain.
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
The Blame-America-First Crowd — "They always blame America first." That was Jeane Kirkpatrick, describing the "San Francisco Democrats" in 1984. But it could be said about a lot of Americans, especially highly educated Americans, today. — In their assessment of what is going on in the world …
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Beth Reinhard / MiamiHerald.com:
Presidential candidate bungles speech in Miami — People chuckled when presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon raised in Michigan and elected in Massachusetts, bungled the names of Cuban-American politicians during a recent speech in Miami. — But when he mistakenly associated Fidel …
Opinion Journal:
Get Out of DOJ — Should Gonzales resign? Plus KSM's confession and more. — Paul Gigot: This week on "The Journal Editorial Report," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is under fire for what Democrats are calling a political purge. But how unprecedented was the dismissal of those eight U.S. attorneys?
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Macsmind
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
'The Age of Individual Jihad' in Suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia? — We are now in the age of individual jihad. How do we know? Al Qaeda sympathizers have recently declared it so. Further, these al Qaeda fellow-travellers have produced a series of 'how-to' videos for the individual jihadist.
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David Simpson / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Soldier: Taunts lead to shooting of student
Soldier: Taunts lead to shooting of student
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Little Green Footballs
David Ehrenstein / Los Angeles Times:
Obama the 'Magic Negro' — The Illinois senator lends himself to white America's idealized, less-than-real black man. — AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president.
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Jill Zuckman / Chicago Tribune:
Pelosi calls for new attorney general — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) added her voice to the growing chorus of discontent over the Justice Department's firing of eight federal prosecutors, saying today, "I believe we need a new attorney general.'' — In a meeting with The Chicago …
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DownWithTyranny!
Jack Langer / Human Events:
Power to the People — I could tell right away this wasn't going to be your average Washington D.C. antiwar protest. — For months, the antiwar coalition International A.N.S.W.E.R. had been publicizing its plans to hold a major antiwar rally in the nation's capital on Saturday, March 17.
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Neptunus Lex
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Michael J. Totten:
A New Power Rises in Iraq — ERBIL, IRAQ - What a difference a year makes. — Fourteen months ago I flew to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, from Beirut, Lebanon, on the dubiously named Flying Carpet Airlines. Flying Carpet's entire fleet is one small noisy plane with propellers, cramped seats, and thin cabin pressure.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
So, Mr. Hitchens, Weren't You Wrong About Iraq? — HARD QUESTIONS, FOUR YEARS LATER. — Four years after the first coalition soldiers crossed the Iraqi border, one can attract pitying looks (at best) if one does not take the view that the whole engagement could have been and should have been avoided.
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The Agonist
CBN.com:
John McCain Rips the Club For Growth — John McCain has taken some hits for not attending certain conservative events. With CPAC, he says it was a simple schedueling conflict. But he will not be speaking at the upcoming conservative Club For Growth meeting either. Why not?
Sara Corbett / New York Times:
The Women's War — On the morning of Monday, Jan. 9, 2006, a 21-year-old Army specialist named Suzanne Swift went AWOL. Her unit, the 54th Military Police Company, out of Fort Lewis, Wash., was two days away from leaving for Iraq. Swift and her platoon had been home less than a year …
Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
Detainee confesses to USS Cole bombing — WASHINGTON - Waleed bin Attash, a suspected key al-Qaida operative, confessed to plotting the bombings of the USS Cole and two U.S. embassies in Africa, according to a Pentagon transcript of a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Mark Follman / Salon:
Smearing the U.S. attorneys — New details show the Bush administration's "document dump" gives a misleading rationale for the firing of two U.S. attorneys. — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in Washington Friday, March 9, 2007. Inset: Kyle Sampson — Evidence continues to mount …
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