memeorandum: Invasion of Iraq was driven by oil, says Greenspan (Richard Adams/Guardian)

10:05 AM ET, September 17, 2007

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Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:

Bush To Tap Mukasey for Justice — Schumer Suddenly Turns Guarded — President Bush's choice of Michael Mukasey, a retired judge from New York who has received the support of Senator Schumer, to be the next attorney general signals that the White House wishes to avoid a Senate confirmation battle.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Redstate, Guardian and The Mahablog

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Schumer Eats His Words, Up-Chucks — Chuck Schumer has begun his rapid retreat from his statements of support for Michael Mukasey. The New York Sun reports that Schumer, who had openly championed Mukasey as a "consensus candidate" to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General …

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Washington Post:

Ex-Judge Is Said to Be Pick At Justice — Democrats Likely To Accept Him as Attorney General — President Bush has selected retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey as his new attorney general, sources said yesterday, moving to install a law-and-order conservative at the Justice Department …

New York Times:
Bush to Name Ex-Judge as Successor to Gonzales

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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Sources: Mukasey to Accept AG Position

Discussion: CNN

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Bush plans to pick Mukasey for A.G.

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Philip Shenon / New York Times: Bush Expected to Name Judge as Gonzales's Successor

thinkprogress.org:

Fox censors Sally Field's anti-war speech at Emmy's. — At tonight's Emmy Awards show, the audience cheered Sally Field's acceptance speech, which the recognized mothers of U.S. troops. "Surely this [award] belongs to all the mothers of the world," she stated. "May they be seen, may their work be valued and raised.

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Tomoneil / Los Angeles Times:

Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil — Wow! They censored Sally Field! — "If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god -" Emmy winner Sally Field said before the Emmycast cut off her sound and pointed the camera away from the stage so viewers would be distracted.

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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:

Emmy Awards: Sally Field Censored by FOX — At last night's 59th Annual Emmy Awards, Sally Field, who won Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Nora Holden Walker in ABC's "Brothers and Sisters," was censored by FOX as she was about to make a point about the Iraq War. — Download (2046) |

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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:

Greenspan: Ouster Of Hussein Crucial For Oil Security — Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said in an interview that the removal of Saddam Hussein had been "essential" to secure world oil supplies, a point he emphasized to the White House in private conversations before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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Los Angeles Times:

Greenspan: 'The Iraq war is largely about oil' — The former Federal Reserve chairman makes the comments in his new book, out today. — WASHINGTON — "The Iraq war is largely about oil," former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says in his new book — an assertion disputed by lawmakers and the U.S. Defense secretary.

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Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
A 'Disappointed' Greenspan Lashes Out at Bush's Economic Policies

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and The Blue State

Krishna Guha / Financial Times:
Greenspan alert on US house prices

Discussion: European Tribune and Calculated Risk

Richard Adams / Guardian:
Invasion of Iraq was driven by oil, says Greenspan

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Grasping Reality …

Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:

Clinton to offer health care plan — DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is unveiling a sweeping health care proposal Monday that would require everyone to carry health insurance and offer federal subsidies to help reduce the cost of coverage.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Don Surber, NewsBusters.org, Wizbang, Macsmind, eyeon08.com, Vox Popoli, PoliPundit.com and JammieWearingFool

Washington Post:
At Iowa Event, Clinton Vows Pre-Inauguration Diplomatic Push

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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Clinton to Propose Universal Health Care

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CNN:

Blackwater Security banned from Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraq's Interior Ministry has revoked the license of Blackwater Security Consulting, an American firm whose contractors are blamed for a Sunday gunbattle in Baghdad that left eight civilians dead.

Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister and Blogs of War

Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
State Dept. Convoy Attacked in Baghdad, Sparking a Shootout

Discussion: Truthdig

CNN:

O.J. demands his stuff in profanity-laced tape — LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) — O.J. Simpson walked into a Las Vegas hotel room barking orders, hurling profanities and repeatedly accusing someone of stealing his things, according to a recording that a celebrity news Web site claims came from the incident.

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CNN:
Police: No bail for O.J. after robbery arrest

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Washington Post:

Crocker Blasts Refugee Process — Iraqis Could Wait 2 Years for Entry, Ambassador Says — The U.S. ambassador to Iraq warned that it may take the U.S. government as long as two years to process and admit nearly 10,000 Iraqi refugees referred by the United Nations for resettlement to the United States …

Discussion: New York Times, Prairie Weather, FP Passport and Truthdig

Walter Pincus / Washington Post:

'Help Wanted' Ad Belies Report on Iraq Security — A week ago today, Gen. David H. Petraeus started his rounds on Capitol Hill, reporting that security in Iraq was improving to the point that a small number of troops could begin coming home by year's end. — But 10 days ago …

Discussion: Corrente and Make Them Accountable

Des Moines Register:

Dems urge different Iraq exit plans at steak fry — Indianola, Ia. — Each of six Democratic presidential candidates, appearing at Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry in Indianola, argued to the most active core of party activists in Iowa Sunday that they can end the war in Iraq.

Discussion: MSNBC, Daily Kos, New York Times, Open Left and TPM Election Central