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Michael Moss / New York Times:
Extra Armor Could Have Saved Many Lives, Study Shows  —  A secret Pentagon study has found that at least 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to their upper body could have survived if they had extra body armor.  That armor has been available since 2003 …
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military.com:
Rhetoric Versus Reality
Discussion: Simianbrain
New York Times:
Report Questions Legal Basis for Bush's Spying Program  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - President Bush's rationale for authorizing eavesdropping on American citizens without warrants rests on questionable legal ground and "may represent an exercise of presidential power at its lowest ebb," …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Oliver Willis and TalkLeft
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New York Times:
Basis for Spying in U.S. Is Doubted  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - President Bush's rationale for eavesdropping on Americans without warrants rests on questionable legal ground, and Congress does not appear to have given him the authority to order the surveillance, said a Congressional analysis released Friday.
Discussion: The Mahablog and INTEL DUMP
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Report Rebuts Bush on Spying  —  A report by Congress's research arm concluded yesterday that the administration's justification for the warrantless eavesdropping authorized by President Bush conflicts with existing law and hinges on weak legal arguments.  —  The Congressional Research …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Saddam's Terror Training Camps  —  THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq.
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Will Dunham / Reuters:
Iraq not on verge of civil war: US commander
Hindrocket / Power Line:
IRAQ'S TRAINING OF TERRORISTS DOCUMENTED
Discussion: Thomas Joscelyn
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
MURTHA VS THE ARMY  —  The Army has been meeting it's recruiting goals for several months.  This must be deeply disturbing to Congressman John Murtha - he's now urging Americans to avoid military service: … Murtha's comments beg the question "But if you had it to do over again, would you enlist for Vietnam?"
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James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web  —  Nothing to Fear but Victory Itself  —  Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, who became a media darling in November by calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq (though he voted against his own proposal when Republicans brought it to the House floor), elaborated on his views last night …
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
600 Listen to Critic of Iraq War
Discussion: Macsmind
Michelle Malkin:
VIDEO: A VETERAN TELLS OFF MURTHA/MORAN
Discussion: USS Neverdock
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
White House Denounces Robertson's Remarks on Sharon  —  Television Evangelist Said Prime Minister's Illness Was Deserved  —  The White House today criticized television evangelist Pat Robertson's remarks that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's severe illness was deserved, calling the comments "wholly inappropriate and offensive."
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Brian Montopoli / News Blog:
Robertson Out Of The Club?
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Extremists boast they cursed Sharon
Discussion: Kesher Talk and Pandagon
Sebastian Usher / BBC:
Arab media ponder Sharon legacy
BBC:
My Lai massacre hero dies at 62  —  Hugh Thompson Jnr, a former US military helicopter pilot who helped stop one of the most infamous massacres of the Vietnam War has died, aged 62.  —  Mr Thompson and his crew came upon US troops killing civilians at the village of My Lai on 16 March 1968.
Discussion: The World Wide Rant
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Jessica Bujol / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
My Lai hero Hugh Thompson Jr. dies at 62
Mike the Mad Biologist:
A Hero Falls: RIP Hugh Thompson, Jr.
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
New York Times:
Americans Said to Meet Rebels, Exploiting Rift  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 6 - American officials are talking with local Iraqi insurgent leaders to exploit a rift that has opened between homegrown insurgents and radical groups like Al Qaeda, and to draw the local leaders into the political process …
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Spencer Ackerman / The New Republic:   THE ZARQAWI EFFECT:  —  After Abu Musab Al Zarqawi …
Timothy J. Burger / Time:
Disgraced Congressman 'Wore a Wire'  —  Sources tell TIME that Duke Cunningham wore a wire after agreeing to cooperate with a graft probe  —  Washington's power players have always bragged about being well-wired, but for disgraced former congressman Duke Cunningham, "wired" wasn't just a figure of speech.
Associated Press:
Poll: Democrats favored to control Congress  —  Following Abramoff scandal, public uneasy with Republican Party, AP finds  —  WASHINGTON - In an ominous election-year sign for Republicans, Americans are leaning sharply toward giving Democrats control of Congress, an AP-Ipsos poll finds.
Reuters:
Bremer says U.S. did not expect insurgency in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Paul Bremer, who led the U.S. civilian occupation authority in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, has admitted the United States did not anticipate the insurgency in the country, NBC Television said on Friday.
Brock N. Meeks / MSNBC:
Homeland Security opening private mail  —  Retired professor confused, angered when letter from abroad is opened  —  WASHINGTON -  —  Brock N. Meeks  —  In the 50 years that Grant Goodman has known and corresponded with a colleague in the Philippines he never had any reason to suspect …
Discussion: King of Zembla
BBC:
Big Brother Galloway criticised  —  Anti-Iraq war MP George Galloway has been accused of arrogance and self-interest for taking part in the Celebrity Big Brother contest.  —  Actress Helen Mirren, who campaigned against Mr Galloway at the general election, accused him of self-interest.

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