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New York Times:
U.S. Arming Sunnis in Iraq to Battle Old Qaeda Allies — With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups …
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Washington Post:
Tribal Coalition in Anbar Said to Be Crumbling — U.S.-Backed Group Has Fought Al-Qaeda in Iraq — A tribal coalition formed to oppose the extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq, a development that U.S. officials say has reduced violence in Iraq's troubled Anbar province, is beginning to splinter …
MSNBC:
'Meet the Press' transcript for June 10, 2007 — Colin Powell on the war in Iraq, Decision 2008 and much more — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: February 5th, 2003, then Secretary of State Colin Powell goes before the United Nations to lay out the case against Saddam Hussein.
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
GOP's Powell Is Now Advising Obama — WASHINGTON — Colin Powell, who only a decade ago was being discussed as a possible Republican presidential nominee and who more recently served as President Bush's first secretary of state, is advising a Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Obama of Illinois.
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Powell Calls for Closure of Military Prison at Guantanamo — Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said yesterday that he would close down the U.S. military prison for enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "this afternoon" because it has become a major problem in "the way the world perceives America."
Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog:
"Too early" for Colin Powell to say he'll endorse a Republican for President
"Too early" for Colin Powell to say he'll endorse a Republican for President
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Hitting the Wall — Reagan's prophetic Berlin speech, 20 years later. — Rip Van Winkle has nothing on Jan Grzebski, a Polish railway worker who just emerged from a coma that began 19 years ago—just prior to the collapse of communism in his country. His take on how the world around …
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Robert Stacy McCain / Washington Times:
Reagan's famous line nearly clipped from Berlin speech — SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Top administration officials said the speech was all wrong. Too provocative, said the National Security Council. Too tough, said the State Department. — The president overruled his advisers and …
Washington Post:
Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties — Law Forbids Practice; Courts Being Reshaped — The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants …
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Standing by the Wrong Guy — Just when it seemed George W. Bush's sinking prestige with his Republican base had bottomed out, his stock hit new lows. The president's seeming indifference to the sentencing of Scooter Libby was bad enough. But it coincided with Bush's apparent determination …
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Romney's Run Has Mormons Wary of Scrutiny — LOGAN, Utah — In this wide valley where the twin spires of the Mormon temple dominate the landscape and some neighborhoods have a Mormon chapel every few blocks, Mitt Romney's bid for president is both a proud sign of progress and a cause of trepidation.
Opinion Journal:
General Retreat — Secretary of Defense Levin picks a new war leader. — There's a rumor going around that Robert Gates is the Secretary of Defense. We'd like to request official confirmation, because based on recent evidence the man running the Pentagon is Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan.
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Los Angeles Times:
U.S. relies on Sudan despite condemning it — The nation accused of aiding the killings in Darfur provides spies in Iraq. In return, it gets access in Washington. — WASHINGTON — Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq, an example of how the U.S …
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Robert Tanner / Associated Press:
Studies say death penalty deters crime — Anti-death penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward outright abolishment in New Jersey.
Chris Barge / Rocky Mountain News:
5 questions for journalist and author David Sirota — Al Franken calls him "My Sirota - the sexy, sexy wonk." — The late columnist Molly Ivins said he "is a new-generation populist who instinctively understands that the only real questions are 'Who's getting screwed?' and 'Who's doing the screwing?' "
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Liz Lightfoot / Telegraph:
'Political meddling' ruining learning in schools — The curriculum in state schools in England has been stripped of its content and corrupted by political interference, according to a damning report by an influential, independent think-tank. — It warns of the educational apartheid opening …
Michael Ledeen / National Review:
Lieberman for Secretary of State — On Face the Nation, he just called for military strikes against terrorist training camps inside Iran, echoing, ahem, myself lo these several years. He put it perfectly, for my money: … Meanwhile, the appeasers over at the State Department …
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TheOnlineWire:
The Sopranos Finale: will Tony live or will he get whacked? — Will Tony Soprano live or will he get whacked in tonight's final episode of The Sopranos? Momentum is building up among the popular TV series "aficionados", so is the betting frenzy surrounding the last episode of The Sopranos.
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