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10:30 AM ET, September 3, 2007

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CNN:
Bush makes surprise visit to Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — President Bush arrived at an air base west of Baghdad Monday on an unannounced visit, the White House said.  —  He plans to meet face-to-face with top military commanders, the U.S. ambassador, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and provincial tribal leaders.
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Bush, Advisers Make Surprise Visit to Iraq  —  AL ASAD AIRBASE, Anbar Province, Iraq, Sept. 3 — On the eve of major administration decisions on U.S. strategy in Iraq, President Bush, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top U.S. military leaders including …
Discussion: The Agonist and Corrente
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
President Bush and Advisers Arrive in Iraq  —  President Bush and his top national security advisers made a surprise joint visit to Iraq today for talks with General David H. Petraeus and top Iraqi officials a week before the American commander is scheduled to deliver a long-awaited assessment of the situation in Iraq.
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
Associated Press:
Bush in Iraq  —  AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq - President Bush and his national security team made a first-hand assessment of the war in Iraq and prospects for political reconciliation Monday as a showdown nears with Congress over the U.S. troop buildup.  —  The president secretly flew 11 hours …
Discussion: Mixter's Mix
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Roberts Suggested Miers, Book Says  —  Author Delves Inside Bush Controversies  —  John G. Roberts Jr., now the chief justice of the United States, suggested Harriet Miers to President Bush as a possible Supreme Court justice, according to a new book on the Bush presidency.
Amy Lorentzen / Associated Press:
Edwards backs mandatory preventive care  —  TIPTON, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.  —  "It requires that everybody be covered.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Edwards in Pittsburgh for steel, mine worker nods  —  PITTSBURGH - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards hopped out of Iowa and into already steamy Western Pennsylvania this morning for a Labor Day rally and an endorsement that's worth braving the humidity.
Discussion: The Politico
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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
State of Mexico Addressed, by Invitation Only
Discussion: Hot Air and Fausta's blog
Bradley S. Klapper / Associated Press:
Report: U.S. workers are most productive  —  GENEVA - American workers stay longer in the office, at the factory or on the farm than their counterparts in Europe and most other rich nations, and they produce more per person over the year.  —  They also get more done per hour than everyone …
Ralph Peters / New York Post:
WHAT EXIT?  FALLUJAH!  —  JERSEY MARINES DO U.S. PROUD  —  Jersey rules.  The Marines of 1st Platoon, Fox Company, 3rd Battal ion, 3rd Marines aren't living large, but they're making a huge difference.  Bunking in a police precinct headquarters in Fallujah, they're at the forward edge of our current successes in Iraq.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Combat deaths in Iraq decline; reasons aren't clear  —  WASHINGTON — American combat deaths in Iraq have dropped by half in the three months since the buildup of 28,000 additional U.S. troops reached full strength, surprising analysts and dividing them as to why.
Turkishdailynews:
The secular elite vs. the popular Islamists  —  Today's political challenge is to allow people to live according to their religion, while at the same time protecting those who are either irreligious or who have a different interpretation of the Koran  —  As a foreigner who is highly interested in …
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
RE: "The Former-Insurgent Counterinsurrency."  —  I read and reviewed the Gordon co-authored Cobra II, and thought as a piece of historical analysis it was too one-sided in its devastating criticisms; but like most on either side of the Iraq issue, I have always had a great deal of respect …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Daily Mail:
Soldiers evacuate babies from Israeli daycare centre as Islamic Jihad rockets fall  —  Soldiers scrambled to evacuate babies from a day care center in rocket-scarred Sderot today after a projectile fired by Palestinian militants thudded into the courtyard.  —  None of the 15 babies at the center was hurt.
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Chaos in Darfur on Rise as Arabs Fight With Arabs  —  Some of the same Arab tribes accused of massacring civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan are now unleashing their considerable firepower against one another in a battle over the spoils of war that is killing hundreds of people and displacing tens of thousands.
Discussion: Instapundit.com
Damian Thompson / Telegraph Blogs:
BBC offers Palestinians 'support'  —  The BBC has been advertising for a "Project Director, Palestinian Territories" to advise Palestinian journalists.  On what?  Impartiality?  —  The BBC have devised another way to spend our money  —  "And I thought WE hated the Israelis," …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
 
 
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Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:
Faith And Hillary  —  According to the current issue …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Snow Job in the Desert
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Associated Press:
Retired UK general criticizes U.S. Iraq policy
Don Surber:
Save Our Elmer  —  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials report …
Hussein Dakroub / Associated Press:
Lebanese army crushes militants at camp
Daniel Gross / Newsweek:
The New Money Pit  —  It started with subprime mortgages.
New York Times:
On Two Fronts, One Nuclear, Iran Is Defiant
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Dean tells Muslims: Run for political office
David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:
WHY IS CUBA SO POOR?:  According to this story in the New York Times …
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Meet The Press: A Pissy Mary Matalin Throws Her Pen When Punked By Shrum
Discussion: The Impolitic
Dale Carpenter / The Volokh Conspiracy:
"THE GUY THAT WE GET OUT OF THE HOOD": We've just been through …
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