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6:30 PM ET, January 11, 2007

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Washington Post:
Report: U.S. Troops Raid Iranian Consulate in Iraq  —  U.S. troops raided an Iranian consulate in northern Iraq late Wednesday night and detained several people, Iran's main news agency reported today, prompting protests from Tehran just hours after President Bush pledged to crack down on the Islamic Republic's role in Iraqi violence.
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CNN:
Iranian officials detained in Iraq, U.S. official says … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — U.S. forces detained six Iranian officials for questioning in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, seat of the Kurdish regional government, an American official said Thursday.  —  But the official disputes accounts …
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Report: Nuclear Explosion in Iran (UPDATE: 3 explosions)  —  A major explosion is being reported in the Iranian desert.  It said to be a nuclear explosion.  In the general area of one of Iran's nuclear testing sitees.  —  The alternative theory is that a UFO crashed.
Juan / Informed Comment:
Bush Sends GIs to his Private Fantasyland  —  To listen to Bush's speech on Wednesday, you would imagine that al-Qaeda has occupied large swathes of Iraq with the help of Syria and Iran and is brandishing missiles at the US mainland.  That the president of the United States can come …
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Bid to Secure Baghdad Relies on Troops and Iraqi Leaders
Kenneth R. Bazinet / Mercury News:
Arab allies support U.S. effort in Iraq
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Associated Press:   Al-Maliki Gives Mahdi Army Blunt Choice: Disarm Or Face An American Onslaught
Associated Press:
Poll: 70 percent oppose more troops in Iraq  —  Only 35 percent of respondents believe going to war was the right call  —  WASHINGTON - Americans overwhelmingly oppose sending more U.S. forces to Iraq, according to a new AP-Ipsos poll that serves as a strong repudiation of President Bush's plan to send another 21,500 troops.
Discussion: NewsHog and DownWithTyranny!
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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
At least Bush wants to win  —  Bush sticks to his goal of winning in Iraq.  The Democrats are just stuck.  —  AMERICANS ARE torn between two irreconcilable positions on the Iraq war.  Some want the war to be a success — variously defined — and some want the war to be over.
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Deacon / Power Line:
SENATOR MCCONNELL ON THE PRESIDENT'S PLAN  —  Senate Minority Leader McConnell held a call with a few bloggers and journalists this morning.  He supports the president's plan for a surge, which he views as "courageous and correct."  He reasons that the object in Iraq is to win …
Discussion: Right Wing News and Redstate
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The Raw Story:
Top GOP senator 'will filibuster any Democratic attempt to decrease funding for Bush's new Iraq plan  —  A top GOP senator said that he "will filibuster" any Democratic attempt to decrease funding for President Bush's new Iraq plan, the Associated Press reports.
Confederate Yankee:
J-DAMN  —  And so a major Associated Press claim in "Jamilgate" takes an apparently fatal hit.  —  According to Bill Costlow of CPATT (Civilian Police Assistance Training Team) in Baghdad, and as forwarded by Lt. Michael Dean of Multinational Corps-Iraq/Joint Operations Command Public Affairs …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Jamilgate non-bombshell: AP allegedly used pseudonym  —  Flopping Aces and Confederate Yankee consider this big news.  I do not, notwithstanding the fact that AP's own standards and practices forbid the use of fake names and the arguments laid out to the contrary by CY here.
Agence France Presse:
US Marines build sand walls in latest Iraq tactic  —  Adapting ideas tracing back from ancient history to modern Israel, US Marines have sealed off flashpoint towns with sand walls in a new counter-insurgency tactic to quell the wilds of western Iraq.  —  Driving across the desert to Haditha …
Discussion: SevenStripes.com and The Impolitic
David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Dodd To Announce Official Presidential Bid  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Christopher Dodd will announce Thursday he is running for president, friends and supporters said today.  He is expected to reveal his plans in a series of media appearances beginning at 6:30 a.m. on the Don Imus radio show.
Hotline On Call:
Breaking: Dean Chooses Denver  —  The labor pains were hard, but the DNC finally has its 2008 convention city locked down: Denver.  —  A Democrat who was briefed said that chairman Howard Dean made the final decision yesterday, weeks later than planned.  DNC comm. dir.  Karen Finney declined to confirm the choice.
Gary Farber / Amygdala:
THE REASON FOR MY PANIC.  —  My crisis is that I've had a primary source of income for the last three or so years of ~$600/month.  That was enough for my rent ($475, though it may go up any time), and obviously a bit more, though not enough to to cover my medications, or quite all of my expenses …
Discussion: Pharyngula and Winds of Change.NET
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
"I Was Right"?  —  A reader writes of this post: … I'll ignore the condescension, but the reader is right about one thing.  We will never know for sure if a strategy with far more troops back in 2003 and 2004 would have worked.  In retrospect, I think we had a window of six months …
DefenseLINK:
Responsibility For Security In An Najaf Province Transferred To Iraqis  —  Third Iraqi Province Handed Over This Year  —  The goal of U.S. security strategy in Iraq is to develop the Iraqis' capacity to secure their country while carrying out a campaign to defeat the terrorists and neutralize the insurgency.
Reuters:
Rice loves Fox tv, sees CBS anchor as "decent guy"  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice let slip her media preferences on Thursday, saying "I love every single one" of Fox News network's correspondents and also favors CBS anchor Harry Smith.
Discussion: Gawker and NewsBusters.org
 
 
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