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White House:
President Commemorates Veterans Day, Discusses War on Terror  —  Fact Sheet: Honoring America's Veterans  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much.  Thank you all for coming, please be seated.  Thanks for the warm welcome.  I'm glad to be back in Pennsylvania and I'm proud to be the first sitting President to visit Monroe County.
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Bush Forcefully Attacks Critics of His Strategy in Iraq  —  President Bush lashed out today at critics of his Iraq policy, accusing them of trying to rewrite history about the decision to go to war, and saying their criticism is undercutting American forces in battle.
Don Surber:
Bush's Gettysburg  —  Welcome Instapundit readers.  —  From a small town in Pennsylvania, the president came to finally answer critics of an increasingly unpopular war, a war that Democrats hoped would sweep them into office in the next election. … Much attention is being given …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
WELL, THE HATEMAIL HAS POURED IN after my earlier post on Bush's speech.  For the record, though, I didn't say (and don't think) that anyone who opposes the war is unpatriotic.  (In fact, only antiwar people seem to keep raising this strawman).  But the Democratic politicans who are pushing the …
Sadly, No!:
2 Dates, 1 Speech  —  Why are we not surprised?  —  Speech at the National Endowment for Democracy, Oct. 6, 2005Veterans' Day Speech, November 11, 2005  —  Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism.  Whatever it's called …
Discussion: The Mahablog and Dohiyi Mir
National Review:
War & Responsibility  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the text of a Veterans Day speech President George W. Bush delivered at Tobyhanna Army Depot, in Pennsylvania, as released by the White House.  —  Thank you all very much.  Thank you all for coming, please be seated.  Thanks for the warm welcome.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Bush Comes Out Swinging  —  George Bush defended his strategy in Iraq, giving us lots to talk about.  —  Here is transcript and the Times lead: … This may be a house-to-house battle, because I am stalled at the third word - did Bush "lash out"?  Or did he, for example, "respond forcefully"?
Washington Post:
President Bush Delivers Remarks on the War on Terrorism  —  SPEAKER: GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES  —  BUSH: Thank you all for coming.  Thank you for the warm welcome.  —  I'm glad to be back in Pennsylvania, and I'm proud to be the first sitting president to visit Monroe County.
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Bush Attacks Iraq War Critics
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
An Unwillingness or Inability to Be Honest
Discussion: protein wisdom
Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:
Why Now  —  Michelle Malkin asked this in response to Bush's decision …
Discussion: Daily Pundit
TigerHawk:   Considering dissent and limited war II
Bill Nienhuis / PunditGuy:
Burning Bush  —  9:29 AM PST - George W. Bush is on fire.
Discussion: Myopic Zeal and T. Longren
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Bush Attacks Iraq War Critics As Undercutting War Effort
Will Lester / Associated Press:
Poll: Most Americans Say Bush Not Honest
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and WTF Is It Now??
Jay / Stop The ACLU:
Bush's Speech, Calls Democrats On Rewriting History
Discussion: baldilocks and The Truth Laid Bear
Aaron / aaron:
Deck O' Bloggers 2005 - Hearts Voting OPEN!!!  —  On Veterans Day, I'm initiating the voting for Hearts, those that nurtured and/or inspired (and continue to inspire!) our soldier boys.  —  If my beloved father-in-law, rest his soul, and my mother-in-law blogged, I'd have just awarded them the King and Queen of Hearts.
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Libby Testimony Is Key To Rove Inquiry  —  Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald delayed a decision on whether to seek criminal charges against Karl Rove in large part because he wants to determine whether Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Rise of the Center  —  Voters Are Choosing Performance Over Rhetoric  —  With Tuesday's elections, you could sense a small shift in the polarities that have been tugging Republicans and Democrats toward their bases.  All of a sudden the center doesn't look quite so lonely or inhospitable.
BBC:
Key fugitive Saddam aide 'dead'  —  One of Saddam Hussein's closest aides, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has died, Iraq's former ruling Baath party says.  —  "The leader of the resistance... died on 11 November, at 0220 [Thursday 2320 GMT]," the statement said.  There is no independent confirmation.
Discussion: In the Bullpen and Balloon Juice
Washington Post:
Asterisks Dot White House's Iraq Argument  —  President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions …
Discussion: NewsHog

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