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White House:
President Outlines Strategy for Victory in Iraq  —  In Focus: Training Iraqi Security Forces  —  In Focus: National Strategy for Victory in Iraq  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.  Thanks, please be seated.  Please be seated.  Thanks for the warm welcome.  It's good to be back at the Naval Academy.
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Maps Out Iraq War Strategy  —  ANNAPOLIS, Md. - President Bush, facing growing doubts about his war strategy, said Wednesday that Iraqi troops are increasingly taking the lead in battle but that "this will take time and patience."  He refused to set a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces.
New York Times:
White House Releases Outline of Its Strategy for Iraq  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - President Bush today is putting forward for the first time a public version of what the White House calls a comprehensive strategy for victory in Iraq.  —  In a 35-page document released by the White House this morning …
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Bush Unveils New Iraq Strategy in Document  —  President Bush, facing increasing impatience with the war in Iraq, went on the offensive Wednesday, releasing a detailed strategy plan ahead of a speech on the war in an attempt to show the country the administration has a clear strategy for victory in Iraq.
New York Times:
Bush to Outline Broad Iraq Plan; Push on Training  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 - President Bush on Wednesday will put forward for the first time a public version of what the White House calls a comprehensive strategy for victory in Iraq.  —  In a related effort to begin extricating American forces next year …
Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
LIGHT AT THE TUNNEL.  Based on my quick first read of the Bush "Victory Strategy" for Iraq, I don't really see the groundwork for the big 2006 troop withdrawal that lots of commentators have been expecting.  Instead, the "strategy" seems to consist of exactly what the strategy thus far has been …
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Bush Again Rejects Calls for a Withdrawal Timetable in Iraq  —  President Bush today laid out what he called a strategy for victory in Iraq, saying that American troops will not be withdrawn in response to "artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington" but will remain deployed …
Joe Lieberman / Opinion Journal:
Our Troops Must Stay  —  America can't abandon 27 million Iraqis to 10,000 terrorists.  —  I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there.  More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation …
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
"U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press"
Discussion: Vodkapundit and Hit and Run
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web  —  Mistaken Identity  —  Yesterday we got an e-mail from an old friend who is a captain in the U.S. Army.  He writes: … Here's the scene to which our friend refers:  —  "A hundred and fifty thousand American men and women are stuck in Iraq," according to the narration that accompanies this scene.
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OSM:
Reid: Osama bin Dead  —  Compiled by Pajamas Media staff in Barcelona  —  Was Osama bin Laden killed in last month's earthquake in Pakistan?  So said Senate minority leader Harry Reid to a Nevada TV station (video here).  More than the news itself that the No. 1 Most Wanted could be dead -it's …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Rumsfeld's War On 'Insurgents'  —  Last weekend, while other Americans were watching football and eating leftover turkey, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ended the Iraqi insurgency.  —  It was easy, really: He declared that the insurgents would, henceforth, no longer be called insurgents.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
RUMSFELD AND PACE....Via Tim Dunlop, Dana Milbank of the Washington …
Discussion: War and Piece
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Pirro Is Advised Not to Oppose Mrs. Clinton  —  ALBANY, Nov. 29 - Jeanine F. Pirro's bid to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton suffered an embarrassing setback on Tuesday when the State Legislature's most powerful Republican said she should call the whole thing off and run for state attorney general instead.
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Maxwell Goss / Right Reason:
The Joy of Conservatism: An Interview with Roger Scruton (Part I)  —  Roger Scruton is a philosopher, essayist, foxhunter, farmer, publisher, composer, and man of letters (not to mention a contributor to Right Reason).  He is also Britain's leading conservative intellectual and The Meaning of Conservatism …
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Dennis Lim / villagevoice.com:
Dante's Inferno … TURIN, ITALY "This is a horror story because most of the characters are Republicans," director Joe Dante announced before the November 13 world premiere of his latest movie, Homecoming, at the Turin Film Festival.  Republicans, as it happens, will be the ones …
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DBK / Blanton's and Ashton's:
Support H.R. 550—Verified Voting is Vital! … SIGN THE PETITION TODAY!  —  Another election has passed without any action by Congress to protect our votes.  Time after time, in state after state, electronic voting machines are proving to be extremely unreliable, with voting shortfalls showing up across the country.
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Screwy Hoolie / Scrutiny Hooligans:
Get Your Vote Counted  —  House Resolution 550, titled …
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Patrick D. Healy / New York Times:
Senator Clinton Calls for Withdrawal From Iraq to Begin in 2006  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her strongest statement on the war in Iraq since visiting the country in 2003, yesterday defended her vote to authorize military action but harshly criticized President Bush's leadership …

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