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9:50 AM ET, December 1, 2006

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Washington Post:
Iraq Panel to Urge Pullout Of Combat Troops by '08  —  The bipartisan Iraq Study Group plans to recommend withdrawing nearly all U.S. combat units from Iraq by early 2008 while leaving behind troops to train, advise and support the Iraqis, setting the first goal for a major drawdown of U.S. forces …
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
U.S. Considers Ending Outreach to Insurgents  —  The Bush administration is deliberating whether to abandon U.S. reconciliation efforts with Sunni insurgents and instead give priority to Shiites and Kurds, who won elections and now dominate the government, according to U.S. officials.
Laura Rozen / American Prospect:
Get the Memo  —  A readers' guide to Stephen Hadley's reflections on Iraq.  —  This Wednesday, the day that President Bush was to meet with Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al Maliki in Jordan, The New York Times published a classified memo prepared by National Security advisor Stephen Hadley and his staff …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
This Is Realism?  —  Iran and Syria Won't Be Riding to Our Rescue  —  Now that the "realists" have ridden into town gleefully consigning the Bush doctrine to the ash heap of history, everyone has discovered the notion of interests, as if it were some new idea thought up by James Baker and the Iraq Study Group.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Agrees to Speedy Turnover in Iraq
Discussion: Redstate and PoliPundit.com
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Bush v. Baker
Discussion: Daily Kos and The American Scene
Associated Press:
Iraq ministry forms unit to monitor news  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's Interior Ministry said Thursday it had formed a special unit to monitor news coverage and vowed to take legal action against journalists who failed to correct stories the ministry deemed to be incorrect.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE LINEUP FOR 2008  —  Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced that he will not run for President in 2008.  You can read his statement here.  Frist's announcement didn't make a very big splash; many observers hadn't taken him seriously as a Presidential candidate in any event.
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Senator Bill Frist:
Looking Ahead as My Term as a Citizen Legislator Ends
Discussion: UNCoRRELATED
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   The 2008 Lineup Looks Pretty Centrist So Far
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain Courts Crucial Support of Governors  —  Last anyone checked, Senator John McCain of Arizona is not — and has never been — a governor.  —  But no matter.  Mr. McCain turned up on Thursday morning at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa here for a guerrillalike visit to the annual meeting of the Republican Governors Association.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
GOP Must Correct Its Mistakes, Mehlman Says
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
It's losing we hate, not war  —  Those who compare the lengths of WWII and Iraq ignore the real thing we don't like in far-flung wars.  —  ONE THOUSAND three hundred and forty seven days.  —  That's how long the United States was involved in combat in World War II, and Monday …
Discussion: Daimnation!
Guardian:
Litvinenko was victim of 'Russian rogue agents'  —  British intelligence sources increasingly suspect that Alexander Litvinenko, the former spy killed with a radioactive poison, was the victim of a plot involving "rogue elements" within the Russian state, the Guardian has learned.
Media Research Center:
NBC Ignores Pelosi Flub, Relays Retort to Bush on Qaeda in Iraq  —  Asked by a reporter about how "President Bush today blamed the surge of violence in Iraq on al Qaeda," incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded with a disjointed answer about how "the 9/11 Commission dismissed that notion …
Discussion: Power Line and PrairiePundit
Boston Globe:
Illegal immigrants toiled for governor  —  Guatemalans say firm hired them  —  This story was reported by Jonathan Saltzman and Maria Cramer of the Globe staff and by Globe correspondent Connie Paige and was written by Saltzman.  —  SUCHITEPEQUEZ, Guatemala — Outside his aqua-colored concrete house here …
Discussion: The Corner and Pam's House Blend
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Iowa Governor Begins His Bid For President  —  Democrat Tom Vilsack Says U.S. Needs 'Bold' Leadership  —  Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) launched his campaign for president here Thursday with a jab at President Bush's leadership, a warning that America's way of life is threatened …
Discussion: toohotfortnr and First Read
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Dan Froomkin / Watchdog Blog:
On Calling Bulls**t  —  Mainstream-media political journalism is in danger of becoming increasingly irrelevant, but not because of the Internet, or even Comedy Central.  The threat comes from inside.  It comes from journalists being afraid to do what journalists were put on this green earth to do.
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
'Fair Trade' Foolishness  —  We may be about to shoot ourselves in the foot — or maybe the chest — on trade.  In the name of "fair trade," we may punish our own exporters.  In 2005 worldwide exports exceeded $10 trillion.  Since 1980 they've more than tripled while the overall global economy doubled.
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann's Special Comment on Gingrich: "We fight for liberty by having more liberty and not less"  —  Tonight, Keith took on Newt Gingrich's controversial remarks from earlier this week where he suggested we re-think free speech as we know it in order to effectively combat the threat of terrorism.
Discussion: Dr. Sanity and Jesus' General
Ian / Hot Air:
Video: Dean bashes Fox News in Canada, reporter responds — in French!  —  Like I said, biting the hand that feeds you.  —  At the Canadian Liberal Leadership Convention last night, Howard Dean said Fox News would "hate this" following a remark about the Dems' victory in the states.
Nora Boustany / Washington Post:
U.N. Official Calls Violence in Darfur 'Horrific'  —  Rebuke Follows Rights Council's Rejection of Measure Seeking Prosecutions by Sudan  —  Atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan are occurring daily at a "horrific" level, the top U.N. human rights official said yesterday …
Discussion: The Sundries Shack and David Corn
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
It really does seem as though the cardinals of DC punditry …
Sarah Womack / Telegraph:
Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth'
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Political Constraints  —  Josh Marshall is chronicling …
Cameron W. Barr / Washington Post:
Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Frank Dwyer / The Huffington Post:
Do You Want the United States to Win in Iraq? Yes or No?
USA Today:
TSA's revealing X-ray screening raises privacy concerns
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Pakistan Daily Times:
VIEW: Friedman completed Keynes —J Bradford Delong
Kristin Roberts / Reuters:
U.S. warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack
Discussion: Daily Pundit
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Multi-National Force:
11 high level Ansar Al Sunna terrorists captured
Discussion: The Fourth Rail
Ali Eteraz / eteraz.org:
Call For Action Against Iranian Death Fatwa Upon Journalist
Discussion: Dean's World and Daled Amos
Jim Henley / Unqualified Offerings:
The Road to Nerfed 'Em
Jason Miks / TCS Daily:
A Conversation with Bjorn Lomborg
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Court Hears Global Warming Case
Bryan / Hot Air:
Warren and Obama Updated to explain my "Protestant pope" …
Clinton W. Taylor / American Spectator:
Hezbollah in Latin America
Discussion: Hot Air
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Focus of FBI Probe, Mollohan May Oversee FBI Budget
 

 
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