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9:20 AM ET, August 22, 2007

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CNN:
Bush to invoke Vietnam in arguing against Iraq pullout  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — As he awaits a crucial progress report on Iraq, President Bush will try to put a twist on comparisons of the war to Vietnam by invoking the historical lessons of that conflict to argue against pulling out.
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New York Times:
Bush Takes a Step Away From Maliki  —  When President Bush and Nuri Kamal al-Maliki stood side by side in Jordan last November, the president proclaimed the prime minister "the right guy for Iraq."  —  By Tuesday, that phrase had all but evaporated from Mr. Bush's lexicon.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   OSAMA IS MY SHEPHERD I SHALL NOT WANT
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
One in four read no books last year  —  WASHINGTON - There it sits on your night stand, that book you've meant to read for who knows how long but haven't yet cracked open.  Tonight, as you feel its stare from beneath that teetering pile of magazines, know one thing — you are not alone.
Discussion: TigerHawk and normblog
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Katrin Bennhold / International Herald Tribune:
France shifts its stance on the conflict in Iraq  —  PARIS: After years of shunning involvement in a war it said was wrong, France now believes it may hold the key to peace in Iraq, proposing itself as an "honest broker" between the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish factions.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   French Plan Engagement In Iraq
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Politics Seen in Nasty Call to Spitzer's Father  —  Lawyers representing Gov. Eliot Spitzer's father, Bernard Spitzer, say a prominent political consultant who has been working for State Senate Republicans threatened the elder Mr. Spitzer this month in an anonymous, invective-laced phone message.
Reuters:
Now dirty chopsticks picked up in China scare  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest is a string of food and product safety scares.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Gulf Times
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters  —  Not that they're worried or anything.  But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president.  As in, it doesn't want any.  —  A White House manual that came …
Now Magazine:
TERRORIST VIDEO THREATENS DAVID BECKHAM AND JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE  —  Becks and JT are targets of fanatics  —  David Beckham and Justin Timberlake are the targets of an alleged Al-Qaeda murder plot.  —  A chilling internet video, which has been posted on YouTube, brands Becks, 32, and JT, 26, as criminal influences on young Muslims.
Discussion: Central Sanity
Telegraph:
David Cameron: Scrap the Human Rights Act  —  David Cameron last night called for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped outright for the first time amid mounting anger that the controversial law had allowed the killer of the head teacher Philip Lawrence to escape deportation.
Turkishdailynews:
Gül wasn't elected but won anyway  —  The first election round in the Parliament was more impressive than expected.  The sight of 448 Representatives taking their seats put out a significant message that was received by certain sectors.  Today, it is certain that Gül …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Monitoring the Monitor  —  After reviewing the latest critique of the CIA's failures to foresee the pre-9/11 dangers of radical Islam, and while reading the final sordid details surrounding the Pvt. Beauchamp fables published at The New Republic, and viewing the latest phony wire-photos from Iraq …
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Federal No-Bid Contracts On Rise  —  Under pressure from the White House and Congress to deliver a long-delayed plan last year, officials at the Department of Homeland Security's counter-narcotics office took a shortcut that has become common at federal agencies: They hired help through a no-bid contract.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Thompson, Giuliani start trading shots  —  Even though former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) has yet to formally enter the presidential race, he is already engaged in a battle with GOP frontrunner and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.  —  The Giuliani campaign hit back hard at Thompson …
 
 
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John Stossel / Real Clear Politics:
Why the U.S. Ranks Low on WHO's Health-Care Study
Los Angeles Times:
Not so fast, Christian soldiers
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Aksa Martyrs Brigades: Truce over
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
The Atlantic Online:
Respect Versus Compassion
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Brendan Nyhan
Lisa Wangsness / Boston Globe:
Romney's rhetoric glosses Mass. years
Discussion: New York Times
Daniel Finkelstein / Times of London:
Our inheritance taxes must go - pass it on
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The Atlantic Online:
The morality of health care finance
Matthew Yi / San Francisco Chronicle:
Field Poll shows Californians lean toward dividing electoral votes
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Brian Rokus / CNN:
Muslim women: My headscarf is not a threat
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