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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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John Zogby / The Huffington Post:
On a New Poll Of U.S. Soldiers During Their Service in Iraq — In wars of America's century just past, we have sent our soldiers to far-off fields of battle and were left to wonder about their opinions of the life-and-death conflicts in which they were involved.
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 …
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Nelson Hernandez / Washington Post:
Diplomacy Helped To Calm the Chaos — U.S.-Kurdish Campaign Sought to Steer Sunnis, Shiites From Brink of Civil War — BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 — In the days that followed the bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine, Iraq seemed within a hair's breadth of civil war. But an aggressive U.S …
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Alexandra Zavis / Associated Press:Multiple Bombings in Baghdad Kill 41
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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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New York Times:
Ports Argument and Iraq Hurt Bush in a New Survey — WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — Americans are strongly opposed to the Bush administration's agreement to allow a Dubai company to operate terminals at six American ports and are increasingly negative about the situation in Iraq, according to the latest CBS News poll.
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Greg Sheffield / NewsBusters.org:CBS Slants Bush Poll in Favor of Democrats
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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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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."
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Will Cheney Retire After Mid Term Elections? — It's trial balloon time: the conservative magazine Insight, published by the company that puts out The Washington Times, has the latest now-it-can-be-told by our-sources report suggesting Vice President Dick Cheney could bow out after the mid-term elections.
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.
New York Times:
Lobbyist Turns Senator but Twists Same Arms — WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — It might be said that Senator John Thune went through the revolving door — backward. — As a lobbyist in 2003 and 2004, Mr. Thune earned $220,000 from the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad, a small but ambitious company in South Dakota.
William Rees-Mogg / Times of London:
Quangos, scumbags and a pompous donkey. What company Ken keeps — WHY KEN LIVINGSTONE? Who is David Laverick? These are the questions to which the press has been giving answers — often wrong ones — in the past week. — There is a mystery about Ken Livingstone.
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 …
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" …
Bassem Mroue / Associated Press:
Prosecutors: Saddam OK'd Shiite Executions — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prosecutors at Saddam Hussein's trial presented a document Tuesday they said was signed by the former leader approving the executions of more than 140 Shiites in southern Iraq after an assassination attempt in the 1980s.
Media Matters for America:
Media: National security is a right-wing value … In recent weeks, several journalists and media figures have taken to describing Democratic criticism of the Bush administration's approval of a deal allowing state-owned Dubai Ports World to assume control of six major U.S. ports as an attempt …
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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.
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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 …
