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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.
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Think Progress:
Rapid Response: Deconstructing the "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq"  —  After two-and-a-half years and 2,110 U.S. troop fatalities, the Bush administration released what it calls a "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" (NSVI).  The problem is, it's not a new strategy for success in Iraq; it's a public relations document.
Washington Post:
Transcript: President Bush's Speech on the War on Terrorism  —  Delivered at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.  —  SPEAKER: GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES  —  [*] BUSH: Thank you.  Thank you.  Please be seated.  Thanks for the warm welcome.
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.
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.
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—  President Bush today laid out what he called a strategy for victory in Iraq, saying that American troops will not be withdrawn in response to "artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington" but will remain deployed …
Discussion: Eric Umansky
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
"U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press" (UPDATED)  —  From the LA Times: … Wow.  If that's the standard for propaganda, we could've saved the information op folks the trouble of writing new copy and just reprinted stories directly out of the LA Times...
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
THE WHITE HOUSE has released its Iraq strategy document.  I think it owes a bit of a debt to Steven Den Beste.  But hey, you can't always rely on bloggers to explain the war plan.  —  UPDATE: Some people are asking what's new about this strategy.  The answer — as Jon Henke notes — is nothing, really.
Discussion: Best of Both Worlds and Power Line
BillHobbs.com:
LA Times Ignores Key Points of Bush's Iraq Speech
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and One Hand Clapping
CNN:
Bush: U.S. to stay in Iraq till war is won
Discussion: The Poor Man and Althouse
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Bush Releases Detailed Strategy Plan
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:   Propaganda in a State of War
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Sen. Clinton Defends Iraq War Vote  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday defended her vote to authorize war in Iraq amid growing unease among liberal Democrats who could determine the potential 2008 presidential candidate's future.  —  "I take responsibility for my vote …
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Patrick D. Healy / New York Times:
Senator Clinton Calls for Withdrawal From Iraq to Begin in 2006
Discussion: The Politicker
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 …
badexample.mu.nu:
PANTS BY MC ESCHER  —  MoveOn.org has a new ad out, which includes a shot of "American troops stuck in Iraq".  —  Trouble is, they used a picture of British troops in the video, one of whom is wearing shorts (which are not part of the American uniform).  —  Normally I'd just say …
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Screwy Hoolie / Scrutiny Hooligans:
Get Your Vote Counted  —  House Resolution 550, titled the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, "amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent paper record or hard copy under title III of such Act, and for other purposes".
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MSNBC:
Alito urged indirect attacks on Roe v. Wade  —  Supreme Court nominee saw state-by-state approach as more effective  —  WASHINGTON - As a Reagan administration lawyer in 1985, Samuel Alito made clear his hope that the Supreme Court would one day overturn a landmark ruling that established abortion rights.
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly: "There's a very secret plan ... to diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A."  —  On the November 28 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Bill O'Reilly pointed to "a very secret plan" by the "secular progressive" movement, which he said aims to …
NY Daily News:
In Belushi widow's book, Woodward is no hero  —  Bob Woodward is getting it from all sides.  —  You've heard the uproar over the famed Watergate sleuth's taking two years to reveal that he was leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame.  Now the widow of John Belushi has recruited a gang …
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 …
John Pike / Los Angeles Times:
The truth about WP  —  DESPITE EFFORTS to improve its image abroad, the United States has just suffered a damaging global propaganda defeat.  And unfortunately, some of the wounds were self-inflicted.  —  Three weeks ago, the world's news media erupted into a feeding frenzy over new charges …

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