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5:05 PM ET, December 7, 2006

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Niles Lathem / New York Post:
IRAQ 'APPEASE' SQUEEZE ON W.  —  * PANEL KISSES UP TO IRAN & SYRIA  —  * PLAN WOULD PULL TROOPS OUT IN '08  —  What do you think of the report's recommendations?  Click the discussion board link below the photo to post your comments.  —  WASHINGTON - The Iraq Study Group report delivered …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Will It Work in the White House?  —  In 142 stark pages, the Iraq Study Group report makes an impassioned plea for bipartisan consensus on the most divisive foreign policy issue of this generation.  Without President Bush, that cannot happen.  —  The commissioners gave a nod to Mr. Bush …
Guardian:
Warning over spiralling Iraq refugee crisis  —  Matt Weaver and agencies  —  The surging violence in Iraq has created what is becoming the biggest refugee crisis in the world, a humanitarian group said today.  —  A report (pdf) by Washington-based Refugees International said an influx …
New York Times:
Welcome Political Cover  —  When President Bush insisted that the Iraq Study Group would not provide cover for the White House to chart a "graceful exit" of American troops, he was missing the whole point.  The much-anticipated report from the bipartisan panel is precisely about political cover.
CNN:   Bush tells Iran, Syria how they can join Iraq talks
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
PARIS' PEACE PLAN
William M. Arkin / Early Warning:
Not What the American or Iraqi People Want
Discussion: Eschaton and Political Animal
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In Theater of War, It's Iraq Study Group's Turn to Take the Stage
New York Post:
THE COUNSEL OF COWARDS  —  After nine laborious months …
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White House:
President Bush Meets with British Prime Minister Tony Blair  —  Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building  —  PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you all.  Please be seated.  I just had a good visit with Prime Minister Tony Blair.  I appreciate you coming back, Mr. Prime Minister.
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush: To win in Iraq, beat extremists  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush, admitting that "it's bad in Iraq," acknowledged Thursday that the United States needs a new approach in the unpopular war and promised to unveil details in an upcoming speech.  —  Bush said he was disappointed in the progress in Iraq …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Democrats.com
Cillizzac / The Fix:
McCain Continues to Win Over Bush Insiders  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) continues to recruit top GOP political operatives in expectation of a presidential run.  According to a source close to the McCain operation, the candidate has lined up Terry Nelson to serve as campaign manager …
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Real Cities:
Legislators may reconsider suspending habeas corpus for detainees  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush's victory in getting the rules he wanted to try suspected terrorists could be diminished.  —  The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled this week that he'll join prominent Democrats …
T. F. Boggs / t.f. boggs:
What we should and should not do: An Authoritative Voice...  After watching the Iraq Survey Group press conference today I am a firm believer that all politicians are idiots.  Okay well not all of them but they all have a problem understanding reality.  If any politician is reading …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Is It January Yet?  —  Not that I want to rush right past Christmas morning at our house or anything (because, really, The Peanut is at the perfect age this year where the whole tree and lights and Santa are magic, and that is a LOT of fun)...but I've spent a little time trying to figure …
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Democratic Wave in Congress Further Erodes Moderation in GOP  —  Iowa Rep. Jim Leach (R) seemed a natural to weather voters' antiwar sentiment this fall.  His independent streak and moderate views had engendered the allegiance of his Democratic-leaning district for the past 30 years …
Maia Szalavitz / The Huffington Post:
Cruel and Unusual: 25 Years for Taking Own Pain Meds  —  In a mind-boggling act of sadistic legal legal buck-passing (I can't bring myself to glorify it with the word "reasoning"), the Florida District Court of Appeals upheld a 25 year mandatory minimum sentence for a Florida man convicted of …
Arianna Huffington / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary's too vane to be president  —  It didn't matter much that Sen. Clinton is a fickle leader — until Obama came along.  —  WHILE THE country is urgently engaged in finding a way out of the quagmire in Iraq, Hillary Rodham Clinton is busy holding private dinners for key Democrats …
Maggie Michael / Associated Press:
Arabs Say Report Shows Bush's Failure  —  Many Arabs on Thursday interpreted an American advisory panel's bleak assessment of President Bush's Iraq policies as proof of Washington's failure in the Middle East.  —  But others worried about the consequences if the U.S. follows …
Austan Goolsbee / New York Times:
Lean Left?  Lean Right?  News Media May Take Their Cues From Customers  —  When Matt Lauer declared on the "Today" show last week that NBC would start referring to the conflict in Iraq as a "civil war," he inadvertently started his own civil war within the news media.
Jed Babbin / Real Clear Politics:
Exit Rumsfeld, Smiling  —  One day in the next two weeks there will be a departure ceremony at the Pentagon.  Flags will fly, bands will play and the liberal media will calumniate.  Should the president choose to add the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the other honors rendered …
Extreme Mortman:
Top Ten Funniest Political Moments Of 2006  —  Try to name the funniest moments in politics this year, and you'll immediately think of violent assaults with deadly, hilarious weapons.  Yes, this was the year that politics met broad physical humor.  And crime.  Lots and lots of crime.
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