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4:25 PM ET, June 6, 2007

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Selcan Hacaoglu / Associated Press:
Turkish officials: Troops enter Iraq  —  ANKARA, Turkey - Hundreds of Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who attack Turkey from bases there, Turkish security officials said.  One official said the troops had returned to their bases by the end of the day …
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MSNBC:
Turkey denies Iraq incursion  —  The last major Turkish incursion into northern Iraq was in 1997, when about 50,000 troops were sent to the region.  —  The officials did not say where the Turkish force was operating in northern Iraq, nor did he say how long they would be there.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Associated Press:
Sources: Thousands of Turkish troops enter Iraq
Pajamas Media:
Turkish Troops Reported In Iraq:
Discussion: The Belmont Club
New York Times:
Transcript: Third G.O.P. Debate  —  The following is a transcript of the 2008 Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN, WMUR-TV and The New Hampshire Union Leader.  The participants were Senator Sam Brownback, the former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore, the former …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
NULL SET....I tuned in too late to hear Mitt Romney's "null set" answer last night, but apparently his algebraic illiteracy is nothing compared to his ignorance of actual events from four years ago.  Here's his answer to a question about whether it was a mistake to invade Iraq: … WTF?
National Review:
Mitt Romney Won  —  According to a Frank Luntz focus group, he reported on Fox and Friends this morning.  His watchers said things like: "His answers, he is answering the questions right off the bat.  He is not giving any bull." and "He is answering the questions the best he can honestly."
Discussion: Power Line and Stubborn Facts
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Do they think we won't remember?
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Democrats Hope to Expand Rights at Guantánamo  —  A day after two military judges ruled against the Bush administration's system for trying terrorism detainees, Democrats seized on the rulings on Tuesday as evidence that Congress should restore the right of those held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detentions.
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Des Moines Register:
Giuliani will skip August straw poll  —  New Yorker plans "non-traditional" caucus run  —  Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani plans to skip the Ames straw poll in August, but compete to win the leadoff Iowa caucuses, a gamble by the former New York Mayor on a "non-traditional" caucus campaign and a first for Iowa.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Giuliani to skip Iowa straw poll
Michael Calderone / New York Observer:
Murdoch, Ailes, Weymouth Pump Bloomberg At Breindel Awards  —  "I'm sworn to secrecy," Rupert Murdoch told The Observer as he was leaving the New-York Historical Society's auditorium last night.  But: "We're making progress," the News Corp. chief added.  —  Mr. Murdoch hosted …
Rasmussen Reports:
Support for Senate Immigration Bill Falls, 49% Prefer No Bill At All  —  Public support for the Senate immigration reform bill has slipped a bit over the past week.  A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Monday and Tuesday night found that just 23% of voters now support the bill while 50% are opposed.
Megan K. Stack / Los Angeles Times:
In Saudi Arabia, a view from behind the veil  —  As a woman in the male-dominated kingdom, Times reporter Megan Stack quietly fumed beneath her abaya.  Even beyond its borders, her experience taints her perception of the sexes.  —  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — The hem of my heavy Islamic cloak trailed over floors that glistened like ice.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Steven Gilliard Jr., 42, Dies; Founder of Liberal Political Blog  —  Steven Gilliard Jr., a political journalist who found his calling as a combative and influential blogger on the left, died on Saturday in Manhattan.  He was 42.  —  He died after having been hospitalized …
Robert Haddick / TCS Daily:
Journalists, You're in the Army Now  —  The days of the independent, neutral war correspondent, objectively reporting from a war's front lines, are quickly coming to an end.  In the future, a war correspondent will either effectively be a soldier for one faction of a conflict, or he will literally not survive in the war zone.
Discussion: The Belmont Club and alicublog
Real Clear Politics:
The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc  —  (June 6, 1984 Normandy, France) We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty.  For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow.  Free nations had fallen …
Discussion: TIME and Blue Crab Boulevard
Babalu Blog:
Where in the world is Matt Lauer's Integrity?  —  FINAL ANALYSIS … After watching the tape of the entire two-hour Today Show from Cuba those 12 sentences were the only ones that could remotely be considered critical of the regime.  If the report were two minutes long it would be one thing …
Michael J. Totten:
The Truth About Syria  —  This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Professor Barry Rubin about his new book The Truth About Syria .  The timing of the book's publication, as well as this interview, could hardly be better.  —  MJT: Your new book is called The Truth About Syria .
 
 
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