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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
House GOP Seeks Quick Vote on Iraq Pullout  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans, sensing an opportunity for political advantage, maneuvered for a quick vote and swift rejection Friday of a Democratic lawmaker's call for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq.
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Hotlineblog / Hotline On Call:
GOP Tries To Call Murtha's "Bluff"  —  We can now confirm that there will be a "Murtha Vote" later this p.m. Speaker Dennis Hastert's spokesperson Ron Bonjean tells The Hotline that it's a "vote to send a message to our American troops that we believe in their mission of fighting terrorists and we must not retreat and defeat."
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Lawmakers Reject Immediate Iraq Withdrawal  —  WASHINGTON - The House on Friday overwhelmingly rejected calls for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, a vote engineered by Republicans that was intended to fail.  Democrats derided the vote as a political stunt.  —  "Our troops have become the enemy.
Tim Saler / No End But Victory:
Iraq Withdrawal Vote — Tonight in the House  —  Note: The quotes below may be inexact, but they are as close as I can decipher in real-time from a C-SPAN feed.  If I have made a mistake and you're sure of it, please post a comment and I will correct the record.
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.
Associated Press:
Republicans seek vote on Iraq withdrawal proposal  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans sought a showdown Friday with Democrats on a proposal by one of their most senior members to force an end to the U.S. deployment of troops in Iraq.  —  Rep. John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, offered the resolution demanding a pullout.
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.
Kit Jarrell / euphoricreality.net:
House Repubs Force Vote on Iraq War
Discussion: Small Town Veteran
CNN:
Defense official: Rumsfeld given Iraq withdrawal plan
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Uproar in House as Parties Clash on Iraq Pullout
Discussion: Power Line and firedoglake
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
G.O.P. Tries to Split Democrats With Vote on Iraq War
Daily Kos:
Ugly GOP Smear Stunt Fails Its Objective
Discussion: No End But Victory
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen / No End But Victory:   We will stay the course.  —  Our mission in Iraq is clear …
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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news, politics, jobs …:
Post Executive Editor Discusses Woodward  —  Reporter's Silence in CIA Leak Case Scrutinized  —  Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. was online Friday, Nov. 18, at 10 a.m. ET to discuss Bob Woodward 's revelation that he may have been the first reporter told of Valerie Plame 's identity as a CIA operative.
Open Source Media:
About our name  —  Some OSM readers have expressed consternation over our new company name, so please let us take a moment to explain—in the spirit of full disclosure—the story of its origin.  At the outset, we formed a company under the masthead "Pajamas Media," after that now-famous remark …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Voter ID memo stirs tension  —  Sponsor of disputed Georgia legislation told feds that blacks in her district only vote if they are paid to do so.  —  The chief sponsor of Georgia's voter identification law told the Justice Department that if black people in her district "are not paid to vote …
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New York Times:
Murtha Calls for a 'Change in Direction'  —  REP. MURTHA: I just spoke to the Democratic Caucus and told them my feelings about the war.  And I started out by saying the war in Iraq is not going as advertised.  It's a flawed policy wrapped in illusion.  The American public is way ahead of the members of Congress.
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Washington Post:
Three Bombings in Iraq Kill More Than 90  —  Hotel Housing Journalists, And Two Mosques North of Baghdad Targeted  —  BAGHDAD, Nov. 18 — Suicide bombers killed at least 90 worshipers Friday inside two Shiite Muslim mosques northeast of the capital near the Iranian border …
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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
82 Die in Attacks on Iraq Mosques, Hotel
Discussion: IRAQ THE MODEL and TigerHawk
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Scanlon Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud  —  WASHINGTON — In a widening scandal on Capitol Hill, the government charged a partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff on Friday with defrauding Indian tribes of millions of dollars in a scheme that lavished golf trips, meals and campaign donations on a member of Congress.
Discussion: The Left Coaster
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

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