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12:55 PM ET, July 8, 2007

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New York Times:
The Road Home  —  It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit.  —  Like many Americans, we have put off that conclusion, waiting for a sign that President Bush was seriously trying to dig the United States …
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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
Seeing Al Qaeda Around Every Corner  —  AS domestic support for the war in Iraq continues to melt away, President Bush and the United States military in Baghdad are increasingly pointing to a single villain on the battlefield: Al Qaeda.  —  Bush mentioned the terrorist group 27 times …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Don Surber:
NYT surrenders  —  The New York Times today called for U.S. troops to surredner Iraq to the insurgents and al-Qaida in an editorial, "The Road Home," that was long on words, short on logic, and absent of heart.  —  In calling for abandoning Iraq, the Times has abandoned the underpinnings …
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
'N.Y. Times' Editorial: Leave Iraq Now
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Zone by Zone: Showcase and Chimera in the Desert
Discussion: Salon and Badgers Forward
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
NYT editorial: Pull out now
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Powell tried to talk Bush out of war  —  THE former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2½ hours vainly trying to persuade President George W Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today's conflict cannot be resolved by US forces.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
'I tried to avoid this war.'  —  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell revealed that he spent 2.5 hours "vainly trying to persuade President George W. Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today's conflict cannot be resolved by U.S. forces.  'I tried to avoid this war,' Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.
Nico / Think Progress:
Conyers Raises Specter Of Impeachment, Highlights Support For Removing Bush And Cheney  —  This morning on ABC's This Week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) highlighted the new American Research Group poll showing that nearly half of Americans want the House of Representatives …
Discussion: Eschaton
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Will Deny New Request In Attorneys Probe  —  The White House has decided to defy Congress's latest demand for information regarding the dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys, sources familiar with the decision said yesterday.  Such an action would escalate the constitutional struggle and propel it closer to a court showdown.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Smelly Journalism Dept: Fred Thompson's Wife  —  To those of you who roll your eyes and groan when you hear people go on and on about the biased news media that injects its personal opinions into news stories and peppers them with assumptions that the writer more than "critics say" seems to hold, roll your eyes no longer.
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Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Thompson energizes young Republicans
Discussion: The RBC and The Crone Speaks
Redstate:
The Romney Advantage: Who Needs Grassroots When You Can Afford Astroturf
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Robert Sandall / Times of London:
Live Earth fails to pack large-scale punch  —  It did what it said on the poster - but no more.  The British leg of Live Earth started at 1.30 pm sharp with a thunderous five-minute drum fanfare by a 20-odd troupe of flailing percussionists, battering a miscellany of ethnic skinned instruments.
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Charles Haviland / BBC:
Pakistan arrests 'Taleban aides'  —  Several key aides to the leader of Afghanistan's Taleban rebels, Mullah Omar, are reported to have been arrested in Pakistan.  —  An Afghan intelligence source told the BBC four senior associates of Mullah Omar were being held after operations by Pakistani security forces.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Getting Closer To Omar
Discussion: Big Lizards
Faisal Aziz / Reuters:   Musharraf tells mosque militants "surrender or die"
David Leppard / Times of London:
Car bombs are linked with Iraq's Al-Qaeda  —  AT least one of the suspects being quizzed over the alleged plot to set off car bombs in Britain was in recent contact with Al-Qaeda in Iraq, senior security officials said yesterday.  —  Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command SO15 is understood …
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Telegraph:   Terror suspect told family 'time had come'
Alasdair Palmer / Telegraph:
Not in their name?  —  Muslims were as much outraged by last weekend's failed car bomb attacks as the rest of the country.  Does that mean they will now help the authorities to root out Islamist terrorists?  Alasdair Palmer investigates  —  The statement from Muhammed Abdul Bari …
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Washington Post:
Administration Shaving Yardstick for Iraq Gains  —  Goals Unmet; Smaller Strides to Be Promoted  —  The Iraqi government is unlikely to meet any of the political and security goals or timelines President Bush set for it in January when he announced a major shift in U.S. policy …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
U.S. Pulled Plug On 2005 Al Qaeda Chiefs Raid And Irked Intelligence Specialists  —  Once again it seems a perception about the Bush administration is proven "inoperative" by new facts.  —  The mantra has been that the Clinton folks blew it on terrorism.  And the legend, recorded for posterity …
Patrick Hennessy / Telegraph:
Fight against terror could take 15 years  —  Britain faces a 15-year battle to end the threat posed by Islamist terrorists, the Government's new security supremo has admitted.  —  Admiral Sir Alan West, the former First Sea Lord, said the overall danger facing the country …
 
 
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