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Michael Freund / Jerusalem Post:
Exclusive: Dubai ports firm enforces Israel boycott  —  The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
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Zogby:
U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006  — Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll shows just one in five troops want to heed Bush call to stay "as long as they are needed"  — While 58% say mission is clear, 42% say U.S. role is hazy  — Plurality believes Iraqi insurgents are mostly homegrown
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Jack Kelly / realclearpolitics.com:
Iraqi People Continue to Disappoint the Pessimists  —  The Associated Press reported Monday that Sunni Arabs in Iraq are prepared to end their boycott of talks to form a national unity government, thus disappointing yet again those journalists who've been telling us for two years civil war is imminent.
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Drudge Report:
BUSH CHEERS DECLINE OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA, RISE OF ALTERNATIVE PRESS  —  President Bush, for the first time, is hailing the rise of the alternative media and the decline of the mainstream media, which he now says "conspired" to harm him with forged documents.  —  "I find it interesting …
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
U.S. lacked plan for rebuilding Iraq, report says  —  The Bush administration never drew up a comprehensive plan for rebuilding Iraq after the March 2003 invasion, which contributed to a severe shortage of skilled federal workers in Baghdad and to the mismanagement of the country's oil money, according to a new government report.
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Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
Postwar Iraq Chaos Blamed on Poor Planning
Discussion: Silent Running and AMERICAblog
New York Times:
Americans Are Cautiously Open to Gas Tax Rise, Poll Shows  —  Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to a higher federal gasoline tax, but a significant number would go along with an increase if it reduced global warming or made the United States less dependent on foreign oil, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
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Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
A GAS TAX BOARD?  Noting widespread public opposition …
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan and Eschaton
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Latest Iraqi war casualty — conservative belief in "personal responsibility"  —  To the list of conservative principles which are being tossed aside like yesterday's trash in order to defend George Bush, let us add the ostensible virtue of "personal responsibility."
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Blogs "have nothing to do with scholarship."  —  The National Law Journal has an article on lawprofs blogs: … Wow!  Why feature that quote at the beginning and then have nothing to back it up?  I'm sure Litvak must have made a more detailed statement, but here she is just hung out to dry with the absolutism of the word "nothing."
Washington Post:
Iraq's Deadly Surge Claims 1,300  —  Morgue Figure Eclipses Other Counts Since Shrine Attack  —  BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 — Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Bush, Speaking Up Against Bigotry  —  There are times when George Bush sorely disappoints.  Just when you might expect him to issue a malapropian explanation, pander to his base or simply not have a clue about what he is talking about, he does something so right, so honest and, yes …
David Carr / New York Times:
Franklin Foer Is Named Top Editor of New Republic  —  For a small outfit, The New Republic has always gone long on drama.  Its changes in leadership have usually arrived in the form of rolling coups or lightning bolts from above.  So it is refreshing, if a bit underwhelming …
MSNBC:
Judge OKs press subpoenas in CIA leak case  —  Libby defense aims to show any false statements were result of confusion  —  WASHINGTON - The judge in the CIA leak case said Monday that lawyers on both sides in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" …
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Anti-Darwin Bill Fails in Utah  —  In a defeat for critics of Darwin, the Utah House of Representatives on Monday voted down a bill intended to challenge the theory of evolution in high school science classes.  —  The bill had been viewed nationally, by people on each side of the science education debate …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Coast Guard Saw 'Intelligence Gaps' on Ports  —  The U.S. Coast Guard, in charge of reviewing security at ports operated by a Dubai maritime company, warned the Bush administration it could not rule out that the company's assets could be used for terrorist operations, according to a document released yesterday by a Senate committee.
treas.gov:
EXON-FLORIO PROVISION  —  The United States has traditionally welcomed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and provided foreign investors fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory treatment with few limited exceptions designed to protect national security.  The Exon-Florio provision is implemented within …
Michael J. Totten:
The Utah of the Middle East  —  SULEIMANIYA, IRAQ - When I first saw the city of Suleimaniya, in Northern Iraq, during daylight I was startled.  Out my hotel room window was a straight street, the first such street I had seen in almost half a year.  That probably doesn't sound like a big deal.
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan
Colum Lynch / Washington Post:
U.S. Opposes U.N.'s Planned Rights Panel  —  UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 27 — The Bush administration will oppose a U.N.-backed resolution calling for the creation of a council to expose the world's worst human rights abusers, John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Monday.
Discussion: TAPPED and Opinio Juris
Paul Hackett / Philadelphia Inquirer:
Culture of careerism scuttled a political bid  —  When I got back from Iraq last year on March 18 after a seven-month combat tour with the First Marine Division in exotic cities like Ramadi and Fallujah, my wife arranged for a small group of friends and family to meet me at the Cincinnati airport.
Guardian:
Secret papers reveal German spies passed intelligence on Iraq to US before invasion  —  · Berlin denies claim but faces calls for inquiry  —  · Documents cast cloud over anti-war stance  —  Germany's government faced renewed pressure to order an inquiry yesterday …
Mark Lavie / Fort Wayne News-Sentinel:
Charter explicitly details Hamas' agenda  —  JERUSALEM - It was summer 1988.  We were sitting in a cramped office, more like a closet, just off a darkish corridor in the Islamic University in Gaza City, a block-like building with green hallways and cement floors, the nerve center of Hamas.

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