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5:45 PM ET, August 19, 2007

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New York Times:
The War as We Saw It  —  VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal.  Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population.
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Matt / Think Progress:
Cooper Contradicts Rove: He's 'Dissembling' With 'Non-Sense' About The Plame Leak  —  During his tour of the Sunday shows this morning, Karl Rove attempted to downplay and dismiss his role in the CIA leak scandal, telling Fox News' Chris Wallace that he acted benignly in his conversations with reporters about Valerie Plame's identity:
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Karl Rove Spins His Way Out Of Town On Meet The Press  —  This morning on "Meet The Press" Karl Rove sat down with David Gregory to talk about his career, Iraq and the state of the Republican party today.  Gregory actually asks some tough questions and follows up on them …
ABCNEWS:
TRANSCRIPT: The Democratic Debate  —  George Stephanopoulos Moderates Democratic Debate on a Special Edition of "This Week"  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this special edition of "This Week."  We're back here at Drake University in Iowa for the first Democratic presidential debate in Iowa.
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Stephen Green / VodkaPundit:
Debate Drunkblogging — Live on Tape!
Discussion: Althouse
Maha / The Mahablog:
"All Politics, All the Time."  —  Following up yesterday's post on possible Hatch Act violations by the White House — John Solomon, Alec MacGillis and Sarah Cohen provide more details in today's Washington Post.  Karl Rove, they write, enlisted "political appointees at every level of government …
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David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Giuliani's Fox-y pal cash flap  —  It's no secret that Sean Hannity, the conservative Fox News commentator, has helped to raise Rudy Giuliani's profile - but now he's helped the former mayor raise money, too.  —  In a little noticed event this month, Hannity - co-host of Fox News' …
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Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
Anyone who's seen Fox News knows its on-air personalities offer …
Discussion: Eschaton
Michael Skube / Los Angeles Times:
Blogs: All the noise that fits  —  The hard-line opinions on weblogs are no substitute for the patient fact-finding of reporters.  —  The late Christopher Lasch once wrote that public affairs generally and journalism in particular suffered not from too little information but from entirely too much.
The Independent:
Military commanders tell Brown to withdraw from Iraq without delay  —  Senior military commanders have told the Government that Britain can achieve "nothing more" in south-east Iraq, and that the 5,500 British troops still deployed there should move towards withdrawal without further delay.
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Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
British forces useless in Basra, say officials
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Rudy plays the security card: ID for all tourists  —  EVERY foreigner in America, including British visitors, would be required to carry an ID card bearing photograph and fingerprints under plans drawn up by Rudolph Giuliani, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.
Atrios / Eschaton:
There Aren't  —  Of course there are smart people, those we could call "experts," in any field and yes of course they're generally happier and more interested in talking to each other than to the rabble.  But AEI and EPI aren't two parts of an "economic policy clerisy."
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Seeing Is Believing  —  There's only one thing at this stage that would truly impress me, and it is this: proof that there is an Iraq.
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: He Got Out While the Getting Was Good
Gateway Pundit:
Green Activists Attack Jewish Warehouse- Hoist Palestinian Flag!  —  Young "climate change protesters" attacked an Israeli warehouse yesterday near the Heathrow Airport outside of London where they are campaigning against Heathrow's planned expansion.  —  They took down the Israeli flag at the warehouse...
Discussion: TigerHawk
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Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
More Duplicity in the FISA Stampede  —  James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, the New York Times reporters who originally broke the warrantless domestic spying story, report further on the recent legislation gutting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
The Founders Had an Idea for Handling Alberto Gonzales  —  William Belknap, Ulysses S. Grant's disgraced secretary of war, is experiencing a revival.  Impeached in 1876 for taking bribes, he has become the inspiration for a movement to remove Attorney General Alberto Gonzales from office.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Bench Memos
Observer:
The day reality hit home  —  The writer Andrew Anthony was a committed member of the liberal left - until the attacks of 11 September, 2001.  A veteran of CND and Nicaraguan solidarity campaigns, he was astonished at the liberal left's anti-American reaction.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Defense Agency Proposes Outsourcing More Spying  —  Contracts Worth $1 Billion Would Set Record  —  The Defense Intelligence Agency is preparing to pay private contractors up to $1 billion to conduct core intelligence tasks of analysis and collection over the next five years …
Discussion: The Impolitic
Mark Lilla / New York Times:
The Politics of God  —  I. "The Will of God Will Prevail"  —  The twilight of the idols has been postponed.  For more than two centuries, from the American and French Revolutions to the collapse of Soviet Communism, world politics revolved around eminently political problems.
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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Ben Leapman / Telegraph:
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