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2:20 AM ET, January 15, 2007

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: UPI's Pentagon reporter says media is ignoring consequences of withdrawal  —  You've read the Instapost, now watch the video.  Takeaway: "[I]f as a reporter you do ask the national security question, all of a sudden you're carrying Bush's water."  —  Exit question: Is Bush about to repeat …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
THE FOLKS AT CNN'S "RELIABLE SOURCES" just emailed me this excerpt from today's show transcript with UPI reporter Pamela Hess: … Better that the story should be missed, and the country screwed, than that a reporter might look unacceptably friendly to Bush!  —  UPDATE: Read this, too.
jules crittenden:   Thank You, Ms. Hess
Philip Sherwell / Telegraph:
US diluting Iraq surge, general says
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
John F. Burns / New York Times:
U.S. and Iraqis Are Wrangling Over War Plans  —  Just days after President Bush unveiled a new war plan calling for more than 20,000 additional American troops in Iraq, the heart of the effort — a major push to secure the capital — faces some of its fiercest resistance from the very people …
Discussion: The Reaction and Prairie Weather
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MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Jan. 14, 2007  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The president admits mistakes in Iraq and outlines a new strategy.  —  PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: I've committed more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq.  —  MR. RUSSERT: What now?  With us, the president's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley.
Discussion: LiberalOasis
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Video: Bush antagonizes the left on "60 Minutes"
Drudge Report:
IS FOX SET TO BLOW THE NUKES ON '24'?  —  As Washington continues to raise concerns about terror threats on The Homeland — a recent CIA report outlined a scenerio of possible "series of explosions using 'low charge' nuclear weapons" — Hollywood and FOX-TV are set to up the ante with the new season of 24!
Discussion: Flopping Aces, Basil's Blog and TBogg
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
DESCENT INTO HELL  —  This article originally appears in The American Thinker  —  "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!"  —  (Inscription above the Gates of Hell from Dante's Inferno)  —  Tonight, 16 million TV viewers will make themselves as comfortable as possible on the edge …
Mark Seibel / Real Cities:
Administration leaving out important details on Iraq  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush and his aides, explaining their reasons for sending more American troops to Iraq, are offering an incomplete, oversimplified and possibly untrue version of events there that raises new questions about the accuracy …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
Lt. Col. Steven Duke says the Mahdi Army is 'sitting on the 50-yard line, eating popcorn, watching us do their work for them.'  —  Everyone seems quite certain that George W. Bush's new plan for Iraq is bound to fail.  But I'm not so sure.  At a military level, the strategy could well produce some successes.
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Edward N. Luttwak / Opinion Journal:
Two Alliances  —  President Bush has managed to divide and conquer the Middle East.  —  It was the hugely ambitious project of the Bush administration to transform the entire Middle East by remaking Iraq into an irresistible model of prosperous democracy.  Having failed in that worthy purpose …
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE
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Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
We can't surrender to the doves  —  Anti-war liberals turned …
Discussion: toohotfortnr and Economist's View
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Sunday op-ed: "We can't surrender to the doves"
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Bloggers Take on Talk Radio Hosts  —  A San Francisco talk radio station pre-empted three hours of programming on Friday in response to a campaign by bloggers who have recorded extreme comments by several hosts and passed on digital copies to advertisers.  —  The lead blogger …
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David Neiwert / Orcinus:   Picking Spocko's brain
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Chuck Hagel Smacks Lieberman: Questions his competency  —  Chuck Hagel plastered Holy Joe on Meet the Press this morning and it's about time somebody called him on his garbage.  Lieberman got on his soapbox and tried to tell us that Bush's implementation of the McCain Doctrine is our only hope …
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Ctblogger / ConnecticutBLOG:   Chuck Hagel bitchslaps Lieberman over scare comments
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Saddam half brother, ex-official hanged  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein's half brother and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court were both hanged before dawn Monday, Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said, two weeks and two days after the former Iraqi dictator was executed in a chaotic scene that has drawn worldwide criticism.
Discussion: GINA COBB and jules crittenden
Agence France Presse:
Economists upgrade US outlook after surprisingly strong data  —  Economists are hastily upgrading their forecasts for the US economy after a series of surprisingly strong reports suggesting the so-called "soft landing" may be over and growth is accelerating.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Ed Williams / Charlotte Observer:
What if U.S. just pulled out of Iraq?  —  Conflict might erupt into more than just a civil war between Iraqis  —  The situation in Iraq has deteriorated to the point that no choice the president could make is an obviously good one.  —  Our nation knows it.
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
The Best We Can Hope For  —  NOBODY will quibble with President Bush's line Wednesday night that in Iraq, "Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved; there will be no surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship."  —  Of course, that calls to mind …
 
 
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WHAT DO YOU THINK?  —  (CBS/AP) Sen. Barack Obama is almost ready …
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