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12:00 PM ET, September 2, 2007

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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Pentagon 'three-day blitz' plan for Iran  —  THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians' military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.  —  Alexis Debat, director of terrorism …
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Michael Ledeen / The Corner:
Rev Guards Base Uncovered in Syria
Discussion: The Newshoggers
Judith Chevalier / New York Times:
Welcome, Stranger.  Here's a Speeding Ticket.  —  DRIVING through a tiny Vermont town a few weeks ago on my way to drop off my daughter at camp, I saw flashing yellow lights appear in my rearview mirror.  —  My car had picked up speed coming down a hill, and a police officer pulled me over.
Maccabee / Daily Kos:
"We Are Going To Hit Iran.  Bigtime"  —  I have a friend who is an LSO on a carrier attack group that is planning and staging a strike group deployment into the Gulf of Hormuz.  (LSO: Landing Signal Officer- she directs carrier aircraft while landing) She told me we are going to attack Iran.
Chris Good / The Hill:
Schumer: Dems can win Craig's seat  —  Less than an hour after Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) announced his resignation on Saturday, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Democrats can win his seat next year.  —  Schumer, head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, called the bathroom incident …
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Alec Baldwin / The Huffington Post:
Larry Craig's Real Mistake
Discussion: Roger L. Simon and NewsBusters.org
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Ben Stein's Delusional Defense Of Senator Larry Craig
Discussion: Pharyngula and The Moderate Voice
Don Surber:
Dems should be like Bush  —  The line from the left is that we neo-cons so screwed things up that the world has turned against the United States; restoring American prestige overseas will require multiple terms by Jimmy Carter acolytes Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards — so hated is George Walker Bush.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
The Former-Insurgent Counterinsurgency  —  Checkpoint 20 was the last piece of American-controlled terrain on the road to Hawr Rajab and our linkup point with Sheik Ali Majid al-Dulaimi.  Before heading out, Lt. Col. Mark Odom surveyed the terrain from the rooftop of the nearby American combat outpost …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
What maketh a neo-con?  [Jamie]  —  There's been a lot of discussion on the blog about the use—and abuse—of the label "neo-con." Which has got me thinking—what is it that causes people to label others this way?  And why is it that people who would never consider themselves neo-conservatives are labeled as such?
Amanda / Think Progress:
Wallace Brings Up Moyers Dispute, Refuses To Acknowledge His Own Inaccurate Reporting  —  For the last several weeks, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace has attacked PBS's Bill Moyers for criticizing Karl Rove for cynically invoking Christianity for political purposes while telling others that he is an agnostic.
Discussion: The Raw Story
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Democrats to Avoid Fla., Mich.  —  Four Early-Primary States Get Candidates to Sign Pledge  —  The Democratic candidates have signed a pledge that would forbid them from campaigning in states such as Michigan and Florida that have sought to move their presidential primaries into January 2008.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
7 Questions as the Race for the White House Accelerates  —  Not a juggernaut, but it is the best campaign on the block right now.  That's a view widely shared among Democratic strategists and emphatically asserted by some veteran Republicans sizing up the race.
Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
"YEAH, I CAN'T REMEMBER"  —  In most interviews and press conferences, the president seems almost allergic to contemplation.  Bush avoids discussion of his legacy, his previous decisions, his place in history, even what he might do after his presidency ends.
Horses Mouth:
So who's to blame for the fact that General Petraeus' aggressive PR surge is showing signs of success in advance of the September showdown between the White House and Congress over Iraq?  —  Kevin Drum has a provocative post up in which he concludes that the liberal blogosphere and liberal establishment …
Krishna Guha / Financial Times:
Mishkin urges swift action to any fall in house prices  —  Central bankers should ease monetary policy quickly and aggressively in response to a big fall in house prices, Federal Reserve governor Frederic Mishkin said on Saturday.  —  Presenting a paper on the final day of the Fed's Jackson Hole symposium …
James D. Besser / The Jewish Week:
Obama Wants Divestment Issue For His Own  —  With Jewish campaign money more critical than ever and Jewish votes potentially important in a handful of key states, most of the 2008 presidential candidates are trying to carve out pro-Israel positions they can call their own.
Discussion: Open Left
 
 
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