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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Putin Makes His Move — The details of who did what to precipitate Russia's war against Georgia are not very important. Do you recall the precise details of the Sudeten Crisis that led to Nazi Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia? Of course not, because that morally ambiguous dispute …
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New York Times:
Georgia Fight Spreads, Moscow Issues Ultimatum — GORI, Georgia — Russia issued an ultimatum to Georgian forces on Monday to surrender completely in and around the western pro-Russian separatist enclave of Abkhazia, in a sign that fighting could escalate on a second front in the west of Georgia.
William Kristol / New York Times:
Will Russia Get Away With It? — In August 1924, the small nation of Georgia, occupied by Soviet Russia since 1921, rose up against Soviet rule. On Sept. 16, 1924, The Times of London reported on an appeal by the president of the Georgian Republic to the League of Nations.
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Tony Halpin / Times of London:
We helped in Iraq - now help us, beg Georgians — As Russia forces its neighbour to retreat from South Ossetia, the people of Gori tell our correspondent of betrayal by the West — As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won't America and Nato help us?
Mikheil Saakashvili / Wall Street Journal:
The War in Georgia Is a War for the West — As I write, Russia is waging war on my country. — On Friday, hundreds of Russian tanks crossed into Georgian territory, and Russian air force jets bombed Georgian airports, bases, ports and public markets. Many are dead, many more wounded.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
What Is Maximum Pressure? — Washington Times calls for the United States to exert “maximum pressure” on Russia in defense of Georgia. This means, what, exactly? Deploy troops? Threaten nuclear war? And then there's Robert Kagan who, as you'll recall, is considered the respectable neocon.
TigerHawk:
True colors: Where's the “anti-war” movement on the Russo-Georgia war? — The evidence is growing that the Russian's are trying to conquer Georgia and oust its government: … Of course, the Russians have no meaningful justification under international law, far less than the imperfect case …
Joe Klein / Swampland:It's Raining Nazis—Continued
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Jonathan Martin / Yahoo! News:McCain warns Russians of “severe, long-term negative consequences”
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A Fistful Of Euros
New York Times:On Slog to Safety, Seething at West
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Adrian Blomfield / Telegraph:Georgia conflict: Screams of the injured rise from residential streets
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ABCNEWS:
Wolfson: Edwards' Cover-up Cost Clinton the Nomination — Aides Say She Would Have Won Iowa if Edwards Affair was Exposed — Sen. Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an extramarital affair and forced out of the race last year …
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ABCNEWS:
Is John Edwards Still Lying? — Former Friend of Ex-Mistress Says Edwards Still Not Telling the Whole Truth — A one-time close friend of John Edwards' ex-mistress says the former Senator is still not telling the whole truth about how his affair with Rielle Hunter began.
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Plans for Clinton convention rallies intensify — Frustrated supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) are planning multiple rallies at the Democratic convention in Denver, coupled with television and print advertisements. — The disenchanted Democrats want to express their disappointment …
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Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Why Howard Wolfson is Out of a Job — Not to re-litigate the Primary Wars — we're in a snarky mood this morning — but Howard Wolfson tells ABC News that, were it not for John Edwards, Hillary Clinton would have beaten Barack Obama in Iowa: … Iowa actually didn't turn out to be that close …
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CNN:
Clinton aide: If affair pushed Edwards out, she would have won — (CNN) - If reporters had nabbed former presidential candidate John Edwards lying about his extramarital affair, Hillary Clinton would have captured the Democratic presidential nomination, her former communications director said.
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
7 worrisome signs for Obama — A few weeks back, Time magazine was musing that John McCain was in danger of sliding from “a long shot” to a “no-shot.” Around the same time, a hard-nosed former Hillary Clinton insider declared the race “effectively over” thanks to the McCain campaign's ineptitude …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama to McCain: Who's the ‘celebrity?’ — In the celebrity by association game, which is worse: Paris Hilton or President Bush? — Barack Obama is banking on Bush's association with John McCain, targeted in a new campaign TV ad that links, with several big “embraces,” …
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jillstanek.com:
Breaking news: New documents show Obama cover-up on born-alive survivors bill — UPDATE, 10:22a:Michelle Malkin has linked to my post. — UPDATE, 9:50a: Kathryn Lopez of National Review on line is Doug Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee drew my attention to a previously unnoticed Barack …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
All American Insult — Cokie Roberts said today that Obama shouldn't be going on vacation anywhere that has the “look of a foreign exotic place” and should go to Myrtle Beach instead. Apparently, Hawaii isn't quite American enough for Cokie and her provincial pals in the beltway, even though it's one of the 50 states.
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Color-Coded Campaign — Why isn't Obama doing better in the polls? The answer no one wants to hear. — From the eleventh-floor headquarters of Barack Obama's campaign on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, 2008 looks a lot like 1980—with the ideological polarities reversed.
FOXBusiness.com:
Interview of the President by Bob Costas, NBC Sports — Beijing, The People's Republic of China — Q All right, Al, we thank you. In a few minutes we'll have more of the women's team qualifying from Sunday afternoon here in Beijing. But now, live, we're joined by President George W. Bush …
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