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10:40 AM ET, February 22, 2007

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New York Times:
In Both Parties, 2008 Politeness Falls to Infighting  —  The sun was not yet up yesterday, and members of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign team were confronted with the kind of attack that most infuriates them: one questioning the character of Mrs. Clinton and her husband.
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Washington Post:
Clinton, Obama Camps' Feud Is Out in the Open  —  An increasingly acrimonious competition between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to enlist the Democratic Party's leading fundraisers and operatives burst into the open yesterday, overshadowing what was billed as the presidential campaign's …
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Geffen-Clinton snit tests Obama  —  He benefits from their name-calling, but is it 'cheap political points'?  —  LOS ANGELES — As he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama is campaigning against "the smallness of our politics" and "scoring cheap political points."
Discussion: Redstate and Matthew Yglesias
Mark Preston / CNN:   Clinton, Obama camps mix it up verbally
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Gerard Baker / Real Clear Politics:
The Thinking Behind Blair's Iraq Decision  —  Tony Blair's announcement Wednesday of the planned withdrawal of about 1,600 UK combat troops from Iraq has been greeted with predictable gloating and derision on both sides of the Atlantic.  —  Most of the commentary in Britain …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and QandO
Washington Post:
Ally's Timing Is Awkward for Bush  —  As the British announced the beginning of their departure from Iraq yesterday, President Bush's top foreign policy aide proclaimed it "basically a good-news story."  Yet for an already besieged White House, the decision was doing a good job masquerading as a bad-news story.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Blair: We'll Go Back If Needed  —  Critics of the Iraq war have painted Tony Blair's decision to draw down the British troop levels as a repudiation of the war and an end to the Coalition in Iraq.  Democrats wasted no time in pointing out the supposed incongruity of a British withdrawal …
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Cheney slams Iraq plan advocated by Dems
Discussion: Hullabaloo
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
National Guard May Undertake Iraq Duty Early  —  The Pentagon is planning to send more than 14,000 National Guard troops back to Iraq next year, shortening their time between deployments to meet the demands of President Bush's buildup, Defense Department officials said Wednesday.
New York Times:
Iraq Insurgents Employ Chlorine in Bomb Attacks  —  A truck bomb that combined explosives with chlorine gas blew up in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, and officials said it might represent a new and deadly tactic by insurgents against Iraqi civilians.  —  It was at least the third truck bomb …
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Christiane Amanpour / CNN:
Iranian official offers glimpse from within: A desire for U.S. ally … TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — As I sat down recently with a senior Iranian government official, he urgently waved a column by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times in my face, one about how the United States and Iran need to engage each other.
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Worn-Out Economic Ideas  —  Senator Barack Obama recently said, "let's allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country's middle class again."  —  Ironically, he said it at a time when Detroit automakers have been laying off unionized workers by the tens of thousands …
Discussion: PrairiePundit and Decision '08
Edward Jay Epstein / Opinion Journal:
The Spanish Connection  —  What the 9/11 Commission didn't consider.  —  The 9/11 Commission relied on information derived from two captured al Qaeda perpetrators for much of its picture of the conspiracy leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Discussion: protein wisdom and PrairiePundit
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Tom Vilsack's Very, Very Bad Idea  —  I didn't watch the Democratic debate (debates?  This early??), but then I noticed (h/t Atrios and Matt Yglesias) that Jonathan Singer at MyDD wrote this: … Price indexing?  Yikes.  Like Matt, I didn't want to leap to conclusions …
Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
GOP 'darlings' slow to sign tax-cut pledge  —  The two front-runners for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination — Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani — have not signed an anti-tax-increase pledge that has been embraced by several of their rivals.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
democracyinaction.com:
Tell Democrats to Freeze Out Fox News  —  The Nevada Democratic Party is working with Fox News Channel to host a debate with all the Democratic Party presidential candidates in August.  This is, to put it mildly, insane.  Fox News is a partisan Republican propaganda outlet, not a news station …
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Bill Harlan / Rapid City Journal:
Committee kills abortion ban
Discussion: TalkLeft
New York Times:
American Liberty at the Precipice
Discussion: This Modern World
Bryan / Hot Air:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Let's help Hugo butch up his military
Discussion: A Blog For All
Doug Struck / Washington Post:
In Far North, Peril and Promise
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Al Eisele / The Huffington Post:
Let's Hear It for the Mainstream Media
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
REMEMBERING THE INDISPENSABLE MAN
KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:
Double Standards  —  Two cases, both involving allegations …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Pamela Manson / Salt Lake Tribune:
Affidavit: McVeigh had high-level help
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Libby's Fate Now Rests In the Hands Of the Jury
Christian Lowe / The Politico:
Military Tells Congress of Equipment Shortfalls
Discussion: Redstate
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Italian Left Government Sabotaged By The Italian Left
Discussion: Guardian
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Scooter Libby and Reputation
David Noland / Popular Mechanics:
Mission to the Moon: How We'll Go Back — and Stay This Time
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Cheney Chastises McCain
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Say What?  —  FOUR BEWILDERING REMARKS FROM THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
Discussion: Rising Hegemon
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Bread Scarce in Zimbabwe as Mugabe Holds Party