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2:40 PM ET, October 22, 2006

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CNN:
Diplomat: U.S. arrogant, stupid in Iraq … (CNN) — A senior U.S. State Department diplomat told Arab satellite network Al Jazeera that there is a strong possibility history will show the United States displayed "arrogance" and "stupidity" in its handling of the Iraq war.
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Observer:
Britain 'risking defeat in Afghanistan'
Discussion: EU Referendum
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
U.S. to Hand Iraq a New Timetable on Security Role
BBC:
US 'arrogant and stupid' in Iraq
Discussion: USS Neverdock
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:   PSST!  IT'S AN IMETABLE-TAY!....When is a timetable not a timetable?
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Diplomat Says US Has Shown "Stupidity" In Iraq
Asra Q. Nomani / Washington Post:
Clothes Aren't the Issue  —  MORGANTOWN, W.Va. When dealing with a "disobedient wife," a Muslim man has a number of options.  First, he should remind her of "the importance of following the instructions of the husband in Islam."  If that doesn't work, he can "leave the wife's bed."
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Yvonne Ridley / Washington Post:
How I Came to Love the Veil  —  I used to look at veiled women as quiet, oppressed creatures — until I was captured by the Taliban.  —  In September 2001, just 15 days after the terrorist attacks on the United States, I snuck into Afghanistan, clad in a head-to-toe blue burqa …
Gaius / Blue Crab Boulevard:
"They Should Beat Them Lightly"  —  The words of Mahmoud Shalash, an imam from Lexington, Kentucky, as quoted by Asra Q. Nomani in an op-ed in the Washington Post.  That is the answer she got when she protested to the imam about his lecture to about 100 men about how to treat their wives.
Little Green Footballs:
Washington Post Publishes Radical Islamic Propaganda
Byron Calame / New York Times:
Can 'Magazines' of The Times Subsidize News Coverage?  —  A PERFUME critic?  Yes, The Times now has one.  Chandler Burr's Scent Strip column appears in the high-gloss T: The New York Times Style Magazine, where the often-fluffy lifestyle coverage is a world apart from the kind of journalism in the daily sections of the paper.
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Michelle Malkin:   NYTimes editor now admits: We were wrong to blab
Associated Press:
Sen. Obama says he's weighing 2008 run  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday he was considering a run for president in 2008, backing off previous statements that he would not do so.  —  The Illinois Democrat said he could no longer stand by the statements he made after his 2004 election …
Discussion: First Draft and Taylor Marsh
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:   Obama's Elixir Bewitches Rich
Andrew Sullivan / Washington Post:
Has the Right Gone Wrong?  —  HarperCollins.  294 pp.  $25.95  —  I don't spend much time in Washington; maybe it's different down there.  But let me tell you, out here in the wilds of the New Jersey suburbs, it is pure hell being a Republican these days, or a conservative, which used to be the same thing.
Discussion: The Corner and Andrew Sullivan
Nico / Think Progress:
Bush: 'We've Never Been Stay The Course'  —  During an interview today on ABC's This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years.  George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker's plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
If we had known then...  WAS IT a mistake to go to war in Iraq?  The latest voice to say so is that of conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online's shrewd editor-at-large and, until last week, a supporter of the war.  —  Goldberg hasn't become a John Murtha clone …
Discussion: PSoTD and Solomonia
WMC-TV:
Ford Jr. shows up at Corker event uninvited  —  Harold Ford Jr. showed up uninvited at a campaign event for rival Republican Bob Corker at a private charter airstrip in Memphis this morning.  Corker had scheduled the media event earlier this week.  —  News reporters were surprised …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
Memphis  —  I thought earlier this week when I saw …
Discussion: Six Meat Buffet
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Blog of war now camouflaged  —  When something good is happening in the military, you can rely on someone high up and behind the lines to try to kill it.  Slowly.  Bureaucratically.  Bleed the life out of it.  —  That is what is happening to milblogging, the Internet phenomenon …
Washington Post:
Democrats Strengthen Chances For Senate  —  Democrats in the past two weeks have significantly improved their chances of taking control of the Senate, according to polls and independent analysts, with the battle now focused intensely on three states in the Midwest and upper South: Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia.
Reuters:
Newsweek poll puts Democrats far ahead in Congress  —Text+WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of Americans, 55 percent, would like to see Democrats take control of Congress, according to a poll by Newsweek magazine released on Saturday.  —  The poll of 1,000 likely voters found …
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and The Corner
Walter F. Roche Jr. / Los Angeles Times:
Bush's family profits from 'No Child' act  —  A company headed by President Bush's brother and partly owned by his parents is benefiting from Republican connections and federal dollars targeted for economically disadvantaged students under the No Child Left Behind Act.
 
 
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