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Ports of Politics  —  How to sound like a hawk without being one.  —  Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is the latest Republican to broadcast his "independence" from President Bush on homeland security, yesterday joining Senator Lindsey Graham, Representative Peter King and numerous state politicians …
Michelle Malkin:
NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL  —  Let's take a closer look at a rose-colored Wall Street Journal editorial on the port deal that is garnering favorable reviews from some of my friends on the right.  —  Sayeth the WSJ: … Contrary to the Journal editorial board's assertion …
New York Times:
Bush Would Veto Any Bill Halting Dubai Port Deal  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 — President Bush, trying to put down a rapidly escalating rebellion among leaders of his own party, said Tuesday that he would veto any legislation blocking a deal for a state-owned company in Dubai to take over the management …
Phil Singer / dscc.org:
Republicans Opposing Dubai Deal Have Long Opposed Efforts To Secure America's Ports  —  This week, Republican Senators have come out in force against a controversial deal through which a company based in the United Arab Emirates would take over six major American ports.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
PORTGATE....So what's up with this Dubai port deal, anyway?  I hate to say it, but I can't help but think that Bush may be right about the whole thing.  Just for the record:  —  This isn't a matter of outsourcing a government operation to a private company.
Discussion: TAPPED, Balloon Juice, CNN and Ezra Klein
Los Angeles Times:
Port hysteria  —  WHEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TAKE homeland …
Discussion: The RCP Blog and CNN
White House:
President Discusses Port Security
Washington Post:
Bush Threatens Veto Against Bid To Stop Port Deal
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Blast Destroys Golden Dome of Sacred Shiite Shrine in Samarra  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 22 - Insurgents dressed as police commandos detonated powerful explosives on Wednesday morning inside one of Shiite Islam's most sacred shrines, destroying most of the building, located in the volatile town of Samarra …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Ziad Khalaf / Associated Press:
Sunnis Hit After Shiite Shrine Blast  —  SAMARRA, Iraq - Assailants wearing uniforms detonated two bombs inside one of Iraq's most revered Shiite shrines Wednesday, blowing the top off its landmark golden dome and spawning mass protests and reprisal attacks against dozens of Sunni mosques.
Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Holy Shia shrine bombed in Samarra.  —  As if we didn't have enough problems already!  —  The quality of the target and the timing of the attack were chosen in a way that can possibly bring very serious consequences over the country.  —  The situation in Baghdad is so tense now …
Discussion: The Fourth Rail, Reuters and Hyscience
Juan / Informed Comment:
Shiite protests Roil Iraq  —  Tuesday was an apocalyptic day in Iraq.  I am not normally exactly sanguine about the situation there.  But the atmospherics are very, very bad, in a way that most Western observers will miss.  —  The day started out with a protest by ten thousand people …
BBC:
Iraqi blast damages Shia shrine
Discussion: Mark in Mexico
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Associated Press:
Poll: Youths Back N. Korea if Attacked  —  Nearly half of South Korean youths who will be old enough to vote in the country's next elections say Seoul should side with North Korea if the United States attacks the communist nation, according to a poll released Wednesday.
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Park Song-wu / KoreaTimes:
48% of Youth Would Support N. Korea in Case of US Attack
Discussion: PunditGuy and The Peking Duck
Robert Burns / Editor and Publisher:
Rumsfeld Changes His Story on Planting Reports  —  WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Pentagon is reviewing its practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media, withdrawing his earlier claim that it had been stopped.
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
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New York Times:
Force-Feeding at Guantánamo Is Now Acknowledged  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 — The military commander responsible for the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, confirmed Tuesday that officials there last month turned to more aggressive methods to deter prisoners …

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