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4:39 AM ET, August 22, 2006

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White House:
Press Conference by the President  —  White House Conference Center Briefing Room  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Please be seated.  Fancy digs you got here.  Thanks for your hospitality.  It's good to visit with you.  I look forward to taking some of your questions.
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CNN:
Poll: Opposition to Iraq war at all-time high  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Opposition among Americans to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it, according to a poll released Monday.  —  Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor …
Faiz / Think Progress:
Bush Now Says What He Wouldn't Say Before War: Iraq Had 'Nothing' To Do With 9/11  —  President Bush was in the midst of explaining how the attacks of 9/11 inspired his "freedom agenda" and the attacks on Iraq until a reporter, Ken Herman of Cox News, interrupted to ask what Iraq had to do with 9/11.
Editor and Publisher:
Bush Tells Press U.S. Won't Leave Iraq While He Is President …
Discussion: The Road to Surfdom
Washington Post:   President Bush Holds a News Conference
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Bush Is Steadfast In Refusing Policy Change In Iraq
Discussion: npr.org
Cameron Abadi / Spiegel Online:
Ignoring the Propaganda in Tehran  —  The government of Iran appears set to reject the European incentive package on Tuesday.  A show of strength?  A diplomatic blunder?  Iranians themselves don't know what to think.  —  "No, don't worry.  We are peaceful people," Arash says.
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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Bush Warns It Would Be 'Disaster' to Leave Iraq  —  President Bush said Monday the United States would lose "our soul as a nation" if it gave up on the Iraq war now, warning it would be a "disaster" if U.S. troops left before the new Iraqi government can control the country.
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Patrick Bishop / Telegraph:
Hizbollah pushes past guards in show of force  —  Hizbollah mourners on a funeral parade shoved aside anti-tank barriers at a United Nations base in Lebanon yesterday in a demonstration of their new political strength.  —  The party had been told it would be allowed to bury three "martyrs" …
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE and Jihad Watch
Associated Press:
Calendars show Armitage met reporter  —  WASHINGTON - Then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
At Guantanamo, Caught in a Legal Trap  —  6 Algerians Languish Despite Foreign Rulings, Dropped Charges  —  SARAJEVO, Bosnia — On Jan. 18, 2002, six men suspected of plotting to attack the U.S. Embassy were seized here by U.S. troops and flown to Cuba, where they became some of the first arrivals …
Discussion: Amygdala and The Arabist
Malcolm Gladwell / New Yorker:
THE RISK POOL  —  The years just after the Second World War were a time of great industrial upheaval in the United States.  Strikes were commonplace.  Workers moved from one company to another.  Runaway inflation was eroding the value of wages.  In the uncertain nineteen-forties …
Discussion: Political Animal
MSNBC:
Sec/Def Lieberman?  —  Plus Steely Dan, Hot Tuna and more  —  Frank Rich writes here of these same folks who gave us the catastrophe that is Iraq and cheered Israel toward its folly who now "apoplectically fret that Mr. Lamont's victory signals the hijacking of the Democratic Party by the far left …
Washington Times:
Hip-hopper sings Steele praise  —  Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons will be the host of a campaign fundraiser Thursday for Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele's run for U.S. Senate.  —  The fundraiser for Mr. Steele, a Republican who would be the state's first black U.S. senator if elected …
Discussion: protein wisdom
WUSA-TV:
Exclusive Poll Results Show Allen Losing Ground  —  GOP Allen's Once Large Lead Evaporates: In an election for the United States Senate in Virginia today, 8/21/06, incumbent Republican George Allen edges Democrat challenger James Webb 48% to 45%, according to an exclusive SurveyUSA poll conducted for W*USA-TV in Washington, DC.
Farish A. Noor / Aljazeera:
'We should not fear being called radical'  —  Cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, founder and head of the Pesantren al-Mukmin of Ngruki, based in the Indonesian city of Surakarta, is widely known in Southeast Asia and around the world.  —  Following the bombings on the island of Bali in 2002 …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
 
 
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Politics Central:
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