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Horses Mouth:
Okay, it's admittedly not hard to have fun at Joe Lieberman's expense, but this one's too good to pass up. — This morning Lieberman and his chief flack Marshall Wittmann put out a press release containing Lieberman's usual attacks on Democrats over Iraq. The duo faulted "Congressional critics" …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
NIE: Iraq 'Unable to Govern' Itself Effectively — Iraq remains "unable to govern" itself effectively and hobbled by the absence of strong leadership, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's inability to broker political accord continues to make him vulnerable, according to a new U.S. intelligence report released today.
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Rich Lowry / The Corner:
Here Are the Key Judgments of the NIE (Sorry for the Long Post)
Here Are the Key Judgments of the NIE (Sorry for the Long Post)
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Wake up America
Democrats.senate.gov:
Reid: NIE Highlights Need For Urgent Change In Iraq Policy
Reid: NIE Highlights Need For Urgent Change In Iraq Policy
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CNN, The Gavel, Wake up America, ePluribus Media Community, Daily Kos, The Carpetbagger Report, AMERICAblog and Take Our Country Back
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Report Raises Strong Doubt About Iraqi Government
Report Raises Strong Doubt About Iraqi Government
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CNN:
Sen. Warner: Start bringing troops home by Christmas — WASHINGTON (CNN) — One of the Senate's top Republicans has called on President Bush to start bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq by Christmas, telling reporters Thursday that a pullout was needed to spur Iraqi leaders to action.
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Political Radar, Taylor Marsh, Hullabaloo, D-Day, The Carpetbagger Report, USA Today and Viking Pundit
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Associated Press:
Fox-Backed Democrat Debate Called Off — Sept. 23 Debate Will Not Be Held; Major Candidates Had Been Planning To Skip — (AP) Fox News and a black political group say they will not hold a Sept. 23 Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, which the leading candidates already were planning to skip.
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James L. / Swing State Project:
AZ-01: Under Fire, Renzi Will Retire — With the retirements of Reps. Hastert (IL-14), Pryce (OH-15), and Pickering (MS-03) last week, the Republican caucus has been bracing itself for more surprises. Today brings another retirement: embattled Rep. Rick Renzi (AZ-01). From Roll Call:
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John Edwards for President:
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery: "To Build One America, End the Game" — Hanover, New Hampshire — August 23, 2007 — This election is unlike any we have faced before. The stakes are higher. And the challenges we face as a nation are greater than at any time in memory.
Associated Press:
Mexican Senate sides with mom deported from USA — MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year.
Juan Cole:
Military Coup Planned for Iraq? — A rumor is circulating among well-connected and formerly high-level Iraqi bureaucrats in exile in places like Damascus that a military coup is being prepared for Iraq. I received the following from a reliable, knowledgeable contact.
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Daily Show: Three Generations of "America to the Rescue" — In perhaps the most brilliant segment on "The Daily Show" I've ever seen, last night Jon ran through the last three decades of United States intervention in the Middle East to show how incoherent, ass-backwards and counter-productive it has been.
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
NYC Muslim Calls Korean Hostages "Terrorists", Smiles at thought of Daniel Pearl Style Beheading — American Muslim convert and New York City native Yousef al-Khattab outdoes himself and compares the Korean hostages to "terrorists" and suggests that because they are guilty of the "crime" …
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Why America's Pullout From Vietnam Worked — The truth behind Bush's mangling of Cold War history. — The Soviet Union was in its final days of existence when I visited Vietnam in late December of 1991. The cold war was about to end forever with the collapse of one of the two adversaries that had kept it going for 40-odd years.
Associated Press:
Giuliani hires controversial image firm — WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani has a new team of media consultants with a strong record of electing GOP candidates, sometimes using controversial ads. — The team is led by Heath Thompson and his Dallas-based firm, Scott Howell & Company.
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Associated Press:
Arizona School Suspends 13-Year-Old Boy for Drawing Gun — MESA, Arizona — Officials at an Arizona school suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates. — The boy's parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school officials overreacted.
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Two General Election Maps — Taking the most recent poll from each state in the country from sources like Polling Report, Rasmussen and Survey USA, I have been able to piece together maps showing the state by state general election between both Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, and also between Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney.
Patrick Poole / Front Page Magazine:
CAIR Goes Back to School — As children all over the country prepare for the annual American rite of the beginning of school, hundreds of school children and their parents from the Columbus, Ohio Somali refugee community may be getting far less than they bargained for, as well as Ohio taxpayers.