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Frederick W. Kagan / Washington Post:
Insult to Injury in Iraq — It's been coming for a long time: the idea that fixing Iraq is the Iraqis' problem, not ours — that we've done all we can and now it's up to them. — Such arguments have been latent in the Bush administration's Iraq strategy and explicit in Democratic critiques of that strategy for some time.
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The Beltway Retreat — The insurgents are hitting their targets—in Washington. … So said Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on Monday, in a BBC interview while in London for talks with Tony Blair. If only such statesmanship prevailed on this side of the Atlantic …
John F. Burns / New York Times:
General Weighs 2nd Troop Shift to Calm Baghdad — The top American military commander in Iraq said Tuesday that it was possible he might need to call for an increase in American troop levels in Baghdad to reinvigorate a plan to recapture the capital's streets from insurgents and death squads.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Hard Way Out — 'Victory' Collides With Reality in Iraq — Some months ago, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was explaining to a senior Bush administration official his plan for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq over 12 months, in consultation with the Iraqis.
Henry Schuster / CNN:
One of FBI's 'Most Wanted Terrorists' confirmed dead — (CNN) — An al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings was killed in April in Pakistan, American officials have confirmed. — Pakistani officials had said that Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah was killed …
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The Note: Pending: Six Days of November Surprises — It Isn't a "Surprise" If You Expect It — By MARK HALPERIN, DAVID CHALIAN, TEDDY DAVIS, TAHMAN BRADLEY, and EMILY O'DONNELL with KARUNA SESHASAI, MONA RAPHAEL, and MICHELLE DUBERT — How the (liberal) Old Media plans to cover the last two weeks of the election:
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:Good News is Sometimes Actually News, Even Near an Election
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Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
GOP attack ad draws heat for racial overtones — The Tennessee spot is denounced as more of the 'Southern strategy.' — WASHINGTON — A new Republican Party television ad featuring a scantily clad white woman winking and inviting a black candidate to "call me" is drawing charges of race-baiting …
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Beth Rucker / Associated Press:NAACP: Tenn. Senate ad plays to racism
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David Johnston / New York Times:
Congressman From Arizona Is the Focus of an Inquiry — Federal authorities in Arizona have opened an inquiry into whether Representative Rick Renzi introduced legislation that benefited a military contractor that employs his father, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
Jennifer Medina / The Empire Zone:
Correction: Joe and 'Stay the Course' — Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has used the phrase "stay the course" several times in discussing the war in Iraq in recent years, echoing a key phrase of the White House, contrary to an article published today in The Times.
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
BATTLING PREDICTIONS — FOR those who follow political news, there are now two kinds of time: Mainstream Media Time and Blog Time. — If your clock's set to Mainstream Media Time, you believe for a certainty that the Democrats are poised to win 20 to 40 seats in the House of Representatives …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
The GOP Leans on A Proven Strategy — Beset by discouraging polls and division within ideological ranks, the White House is accelerating efforts to woo back disaffected conservatives and energize the Republican base in a reprise of a strategy that succeeded in the last two campaign cycles.
Steven Stalinsky / New York Sun:
Western Press Ignores Iran's Hate-Filled Quds Day — The MEMRI Report — It is disturbing when the entire leadership of one nation, along with hundreds of thousands of its citizens, comes out with celebrations and parades every year that call for the annihilation of another country.
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Associated Press:
U.S. MILITARY: NO SIGNS OF SOLDIER MISSING IN IRAQ — Oct. 24: 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldiers stop traffic in the Karradah district looking for a missing translator. — Oct. 24: 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldiers stop traffic in the Karradah district looking for a missing translator.
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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Limbaugh Says Actor Fox Exaggerates Effects of Disease in Ads — Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh attacked actor Michael J. Fox for inserting his halting voice into the U.S. Senate campaign in Missouri, suggesting Fox was "acting" in a commercial where he's shown shaking …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Finding Welcome Mats as G.O.P. Looks for an Edge — President Bush cannot show up just anywhere in the waning days of this midterm campaign. But there is a certain class of Republicans who are somewhere between eager and willing to have him at their sides.
Michael Fumento / fumento.com:
COVERING IRAQ: THE MODERN WAY OF WAR CORRESPONDENCE (EXTENDED VERSION) — Would you trust a Hurricane Katrina report datelined "direct from Detroit"? Or coverage of the World Trade Center attack from Chicago? Why then should we believe a Time Magazine investigation of the Haditha killings …
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Idle Contractors Add Millions to Iraq Rebuilding — A prison built in Nasiriya, Iraq, by the Parsons group. Overhead costs eat up large shares of such contracts. — Overhead costs have consumed more than half the budget of some reconstruction projects in Iraq, according …
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Veiled Insult — Quite a long time ago, having briefly joined the herd of 20-something backpackers that eternally roams Southeast Asia, I found myself in Bali. Like all of the other 20-somethings, I carefully read the Lonely Planet backpacker's guide to Indonesia and learned, among other things …
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Add your comment Reader comments (26) … Did the women who had the abortions care about the child they destroyed? I doubt it even entered their head what happened to the foetus after the abortion so little point in them saying they're upset or distressed now. — Kate, Newcastle
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