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12:00 PM ET, October 25, 2006

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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.
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan and Think Progress
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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.
Discussion: Eschaton and Blue Crab Boulevard
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 …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and BlondeSense
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Good News is Sometimes Actually News, Even Near an Election
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.
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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Beth Rucker / Associated Press:
NAACP: Tenn. Senate ad plays to racism
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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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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 …
Discussion: Bill Hobbs
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.
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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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Lieberman Often Repeated Key White House Phrase
Discussion: World Magazine Blog and LamontBlog
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.
Discussion: Reuters
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Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
Iraqi leader disavows timetable report
Discussion: All Spin Zone and State of the Day
Diana Jean Schemo / New York Times:
Federal Rules Back Single-Sex Public Education  —  The Bush administration is giving public school districts broad new latitude to expand the number of single-sex classes, and even schools, in what is widely considered the most significant policy change on the issue since …
Discussion: Unfogged, Balkinization and Althouse
Michael Barone / Barone Blog:
The House Elections  —  People are always asking me, Which party is going to win the House elections?  The answer is, I don't know.  We have very many more publicly released polls than we used to have, and therefore more basis for making estimates.  But they're still just estimates, subject to error.
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.
Discussion: Don Surber and AMERICAblog
Lady Vorzheva / Toasted Bread:
Galician blogger charged for supporting Israel (UPDATED)  —  Galician blogger Alejandro de Llano has told in his blog that he has been charged with the great crime of supporting Israel and being against the Palestinian people.  —  Two years ago, the Galician nationalist Major of Oleiros …
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.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Power Line
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 …
Daily Mail:
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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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
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A Strategic Lunch with Mr. Rumsfeld
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Venezuelan's Diatribe at U.N. May Have Backfired
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Bias at the BBC?  —  I am not surprised that some readers …
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Ford camp's answers vary on Playboy party
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BECCY COLE - "POSTER GIRL" ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE WORLD
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Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
Can the '20th hijacker' of Sept. 11 stand trial?