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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
House Rejects Iraq Pullout After GOP Forces a Vote  —  Differences over policy on the Iraq war ignited an explosion of angry words and personal insults on the House floor yesterday when the chamber's newest member suggested that a decorated war veteran was a coward for calling for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.
CNN:
Defense official: Rumsfeld given Iraq withdrawal plan  —  Plan calls for troops to begin pulling out after December elections  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The top U.S. commander in Iraq has submitted a plan to the Pentagon for withdrawing troops in Iraq, according to a senior defense official.
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Uproar in House as Parties Clash on Iraq Pullout  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 - Republicans and Democrats shouted, howled and slung insults on the House floor on Friday as a debate over whether to withdraw American troops from Iraq descended into a fury over President Bush's handling of the war …
Daily Kos:
Ugly GOP Smear Stunt Fails Its Objective  —  The latest incarnation of the New McCarthyism, the ugly Duncan Hunter stunt - the so-called "Murtha" resolution - blew up in their face.  —  The NYTimes reported that: … The vote on the rule to bring the Fake Hunter Resolution to the floor …
Discussion: QandO and No End But Victory
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
House GOP Seeks Quick Veto of Iraq Pullout  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans maneuvered for swift rejection Friday of any notion of immediately pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, sparking a nasty, sometimes personal debate over the war and a Democratic lawmaker's own call for withdrawal.
Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
The 'Cut and Run' Prescription for Iraq
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
What Could Be More American Than A Vote?
Discussion: bRight & Early and Cao's Blog
Scott Shields / MyDD:
The Murtha Resolution  —  The big talk floating around right now …
Discussion: Seeing the Forest
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
House GOP Seeks Quick Vote on Iraq Pullout
Kit Jarrell / euphoricreality.net:   Liveblogging the House, Part 3
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Democrats Don't Bite GOP-Baited Hook As Iraq Withdrawal Resolution Fails
Bloomberg:
Republicans to Test Call for Quick Pullout From Iraq (Update2)
Discussion: Discriminations, Power Line and IMAO
Gary Gross / Let Freedom Ring:   A Spine Is Detected
Kevin Aylward / Wizbang:   WITH ALL DUE RESPECT...  Democrats - Sen. Harry Reid in particular …
Viveca Novak / Time:
Why Woodward's Source Came Clean  —  The famed Washington Post journalist describes the series of events that lead him and his source to Fitzgerald … As reporters keep scrambling to find out who told Bob Woodward about Joe Wilson's wife, Woodward himself has told TIME about a related mystery …
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
DECONSTRUCTING WOODWARD....OK, based on a couple of comments …
Discussion: firedoglake and Prairie Weather
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Bob Woodward's 'Firecracker,' the Second Coming of Judy's Notebook?
Discussion: Yellow Dog Blog and AMERICAblog
BBC:
Index ranks Middle East freedom  —  There is a wide range of democratisation across the Middle East, a survey by a leading research and advisory firm has found.  —  The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked 20 countries on 15 indicators of political and civil liberty.
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ABCNEWS:
CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described  —  Sources Say Agency's Tactics Lead to Questionable Confessions, Sometimes to Death  —  Nov. 18, 2005 — Harsh interrogation techniques authorized by top officials of the CIA have led to questionable confessions and the death of a detainee since …
James Bamford / Rolling Stone:
The Man Who Sold the War  —  Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war  —  The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places.  One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand.
Discussion: firedoglake and This Modern World
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
DeLay Ex-Aide to Plead Guilty in Lobby Case  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 - Michael Scanlon, a former top official for Representative Tom DeLay and onetime partner of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff, has agreed to plead guilty in a deal with federal prosecutors, according to his lawyer.
Norman Johnson / Guardian:
Marmite jars and the blogging revolution  —  No offence to G2 and all the lovely girls who work so hard to keep it brimming with froth, but as an unrepentant, comment/analysis kind of guy, the lite-weight end of this paper has never appealed much to me.  OK, I'm an extreme case …
Discussion: Europhobia and Slugger O'Toole

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