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HILL: TERROR WOULD BE GOP BOOST — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday raised the prospect of a terror attack before next year's election, warning that it could boost the GOP's efforts to hold on to the White House. — Discussing the possibility of a new nightmare assault while campaigning …
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Policy Failure: Good for the GOP? — This is, I think, a disaster: … Two points in response. The first is that I think the Democrat best positioned to deal with GOP political mobilization in a post-attack environment is going to be the one who isn't reflexively inclined …
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The Lost Year — A new national intelligence estimate concludes that President Bush's troop surge shows no signs of accomplishing its goal of encouraging political reconciliation in Iraq. — An influential Republican senator and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff now favor a troop withdrawal.
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Is The Prospect Of Withdrawal Responsible For The Modest Security Gains In Iraq? — Yesterday, the National Intelligence Estimate reported "measurable but uneven improvements" in the security situation in Iraq. While the White House has rushed to suggest that the modest gains were the result of escalation …
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Kristol: Let's 'Stretch Our Army And Marines' For 'Another Year Or So' In Iraq — On Fox News this morning, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol said that the escalation in Iraq should be extended at least "another six months" or even "another year or so."
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Hoekstra says Iraq democracy strategy is doomed to fail — EAST LANSING - The U.S. effort to install a democracy in Iraq within three to five years was a flawed strategy with little chance of succeeding, U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra said Friday. — The Holland Republican said the Iraq government needs …
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BREAKING: FIDEL CASTRO IS DEAD — My cellphone has not stopped ringing for the past ten minutes. Various sources inform that an announcement will come within the next few minutes from the Cuban government on Cuban TV and media. Stay tuned and we'll see if we've been manipulated once again …
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Cuban FM dispels rumors about Castro — Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque today said President Fidel Castro was still recovering from his operation last year and was keeping busy, having personally instructed him on his visit to Brazil. — While attending the Forum …
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Our troops have earned more time — The invasion of Iraq may be one of the worst foreign-policy mistakes in the history of our nation. As tragic and costly as that mistake has been, a precipitous or premature withdrawal of our forces now has the potential to turn the initial errors …
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Fmr Bush Iraq Envoy Helping Undermine Maliki — As Bush Voices Support for the Iraqi PM, Republican Lobbyists Aid Top Maliki Foe — Republican lobbyists with close ties to the Bush administration are aiding and supporting the efforts of an Iraqi opposition leader who is calling for the ouster of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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Allawi's Muscle: The CIA-Controlled Iraqi National Intelligence Service
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Historian: Bush use of quote 'perverse' — A historian quoted by President Bush to help argue that critics of the administration's Iraq policy echo those who questioned the U.S. effort to bring democracy to Japan after World War II angrily distanced himself from the president's remarks Thursday.
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Liberal blogger targets 'Bush Dog' Dems — A leading liberal blogger has declared political war against centrist Democrats - the latest move in an intensifying show of dissatisfaction with the Democratic Congress by the once-friendly blogosphere. — Matt Stoller, who blogs …
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THE ANBAR AWAKENING....Josh Patashnik has other problems with National Review's latest editorial about Iraq, but it's this passage that makes me want to bang my head against the wall: … Say it slowly: This. Is. A. Lie. The Sunni tribes began turning against AQI nearly a year ago.
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More and Better Democrats — Here's Darcy Burner on the FISA collapse. — Here's Joe Wilson introducing the upcoming Monday virtual town hall with Burner. — You can go here for info about how — to send your question, etc. — Most importantly, the worst president in history …
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White House Moving The Goal Posts On Escalation, Drops Demands For Iraqi Political Reconciliation — When President Bush announced the escalation on January 10, 2007, he claimed the purpose of adding more troops into Iraq's civil war was to enable political reconciliation:
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Scarborough OK With Wolf Equating Bushies With Nazis — Joe Scarborough prides himself on being an independent thinker. Apparently that extends to not uttering a peep of protest, and indeed tending to concur, when a left-wing guest flatly accuses the Bush administration of using Nazi tactics to suppress democracy.
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'To Old Times' — A toast to American troops, then and now. — Once I went hot-air ballooning in Normandy. It was the summer of 1991. It was exciting to float over the beautiful French hills and the farms with crisp crops in the fields. It was dusk, and we amused ourselves calling out …