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New York Times:
War on Terror Takes Focus at Democrats' Debate — The Democratic presidential candidates tangled over foreign policy Tuesday night, criticizing Senator Barack Obama for proposing an attack against Al Qaeda in Pakistan. He struck back at his rivals who had supported the Iraq war, saying they had …
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Okay, this is interesting. It turns out Anthony Cordesman, a national security analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, went to Iraq with Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack. That is, Cordesman — according to CNN, which just reported this moments ago …
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Anthony H. Cordesman / Center for Strategic …:
DATE OF PUBLICATION: … SYNOPSIS: — Everyone sees Iraq differently. As one leading US official in Iraq put it, "the current situation is like playing three dimensional chess in the dark while someone is shooting at you." It is scarcely surprising that my perceptions of a recent trip …
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Army Says Soldier's Articles for Magazine Were False — An Army investigation into the Baghdad Diarist, a soldier in Iraq who wrote anonymous columns for The New Republic, has concluded that the sometimes shockingly cruel reports were false. — "We are not going into the details of the investigation …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Army Concludes Baghdad Diarist Accounts Untrue — Army investigators have concluded that the private whose dispatches for the New Republic accused his fellow soldiers of petty cruelties in Iraq was not telling the truth. — The finding, disclosed yesterday, came days after the Washington …
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Los Angeles Times:
Bonds slugs way past Aaron for home run record — Giants slugger hits a 3-2 pitch in the fifth inning from Washington's Mike Bacsik for No. 756. — SAN FRANCISCO — The ball exploded off Barry Bonds' bat, a small white sphere streaking through the dark San Francisco sky …
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The Atlantic Online:
The Greatest — Kevin Drum: … I say: No. The man holds the record for most career home runs and most home runs in a single season. What's more, not only did he hit 73 home runs in 2001, but he also "managed to shatter two of Babe Ruth's longstanding records — most walks (177) and highest slugging percentage (.863) in a season."
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Iran-Supplied Bomb Is Killing More Troops in Iraq, U.S. Says — Attacks on American-led forces using a lethal type of roadside bomb said to be supplied by Iran reached a new high in July, according to the American military. — The devices, known as explosively formed penetrators …
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The Corner:
Clinton Tonight — In response to more than a few answers tonight — on Iraq, on China — I've said, "she sounds reasonable." If I were a normal America, I think I'd really think that. — That's really hard to admit. I still have both "Clinton Hater" and "Vast-Right-Wing Conspiracy" cards in my wallet.
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Taylor Marsh, Bark Bark Woof Woof, The Democratic Daily, Telegraph, Sister Toldjah and Brian Beutler
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:HILLARY vs. HITLERY....Over at National Review, Kathryn Jean …
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Unqualified Offerings
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales — The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.
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DownWithTyranny!:
HOW DOES A CLOSET CASE APPEAL TO THE RADICAL RIGHT IN SOUTH CAROLINA? LET'S ASK LINDSEY GRAHAM — You go, girl! — Forget, for a moment, that Lindsey Graham (R-SC) takes it up the tuches by night, while spewing anti-gay hatred and bigotry by day, rabble-rousing the rednecks …
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Edward Cone / CIO Insight:
The Web 2.008 Campaign — Web video and social networks are two of the hottest technologies for Campaign '08. Video is ready for prime time, social networking is a relative unknown. — Video arrived in 2006, when George Allen, then a Republican Virginia senator, called a rival staffer the crypto-racist slur "macaca."
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
For an Iraq Contractor, Duty, and Then Death — Brenton Thomas Gray was no longer a soldier when he died a soldier's death last August on a northern Baghdad road. There were an armored car, a curbside bomb, a sizzling explosion. The sky went black with smoke and melting tar.
Melissa Drosjack / Fox News:
San Diego Firefighters File Complaint for Being Forced to Attend Gay Pride Parade — In 28 years of responding to fires and saving lives, Fire Capt. John Ghiotto of the San Diego Fire Department never thought his job would require him to attend a Gay Pride parade.
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Blogs for Bush
hse.gov.uk:
Initial report on potential breaches to biosecurity at the Pirbright site, 2007 — Background — An outbreak of foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) was confirmed at a farm in Surrey on 3 August 2007. — Preliminary Defra investigations indicated that the virus may have originated …
Gallup Guru:
A hint of more positive news for the Bush admininstration — We're seeing some slight hints of positive news for the Bush administration. For one thing, Bush's job approval rating has stopped its downward trajectory. Bush hit bottom with his administration low point of 29% in early July …
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