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12:15 PM ET, October 22, 2011

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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
How the Obama administration bungled the Iraq withdrawal negotiations  —  The Obama administration is claiming it always intended to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year, in line with the president's announcement today, but in fact several parts of the administration appeared …
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Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
Iraq rejects US request to maintain bases after troop withdrawal  —  Obama announces the full withdrawal of troops from Iraq but fails to persuade Nouri al-Maliki to allow US to keep bases there  —  The US suffered a major diplomatic and military rebuff on Friday when Iraq finally rejected …
Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
The Iraq War Ain't Over, No Matter What Obama Says  —  President Obama announced on Friday that all 41,000 U.S. troops currently in Iraq will return home by December 31.  “That is how America's military efforts in Iraq will end,” he said.  Don't believe him.  —  Now: it's a big deal that all U.S. troops are coming home.
New York Times:
Despite Difficult Talks, U.S. and Iraq Had Expected Some American Troops to Stay  —  BAGHDAD — President Obama's announcement on Friday that all American troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year was an occasion for celebration for many, but some top American military officials were dismayed …
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Romney Opposes Troop Withdrawal From Iraq (UPDATED)
Ben Feller / ABCNEWS:
Iraq War Over, US Troops Coming Home, Obama Says
Discussion: The Politico and The News Tribune
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Romney: Mission not accomplished
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
News analysis: Obama builds on national security record
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Hill
Adam Andrzejewski / Big Government:
Lech Walesa Not Attending #OccupyWallStreet in New York After Discovering Hard-Left Organizers  —  The Polish champion of freedom and liberty, founder of Solidarity, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, and first President of modern Poland Lech Walesa had been rumored to possibly be traveling …
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Matt Yglesias / The New Republic:
How Occupy Wall Street Is a Rational Response to a System That's Failed  —  The basic economic premise of modern American liberalism, as I understand it, is that with appropriate regulation and taxation a market economy can be made broadly beneficial to the overwhelming majority of citizens.
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Occupy Wall Street backed by 37 percent of Americans, poll says
Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Sarah Huisenga / CBS News:
Key aide leaves Bachmann for Perry in mass exodus of N.H. campaign staff  —  The entire paid New Hampshire staff for Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has resigned, in another blow to the Minnesota congresswoman's foundering campaign.  —  Jeff Chidester, Bachmann's former …
Discussion: Mediaite and New York Magazine
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James Pindell / WMUR Political Scoop:
EXCLUSIVE: All Bachmann NH Staffers Quit
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Wall St. Protest Isn't Like Ours, Tea Party Says  —  At a Republican candidate forum outside Fort Worth last week, a Tea Party activist turned Senate candidate proclaimed the Occupy Wall Street protesters “unemployed, uneducated and uninformed.”  To which the conservative radio host moderating …
thedp.com:
Protesters storm campus after Cantor cancels visit  —  Cantor's office was told Thursday that Penn security was welcoming protesters  —  Protesters gather inside Huntsman Hall after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor canceled his Wharton Leadership Lecture slated for Friday afternoon in Huntsman Hall.
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Spiegel Online:
Estonia Lives the European Dream  —  The Estonians, with little debt, an enthusiastic attitude toward Europe and a stoic approach to austerity measures, are a model EU nation in the midst of a crisis.  They live in a digital republic defined by a business-friendly atmosphere and government transparency …
Discussion: RedState
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Which States Are Most Enthusiastic About Obama's Reelection?  —  The Obama reelection campaign is very proud that it has now reached 1 million donors.  As it should be!  That's a lot of people who still believe strongly in the president despite, you know, How Things Are.
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Political Mojo
cphpost.dk:
Islamists seek to introduce ‘Sharia zones’  —  A majority of Danish Muslims distance themselves from small group of extremists  —  A fundamentalist Islamic group wants to set up zones in Copenhagen where Islamic Sharia Law should be upheld.  —  The group, ‘The Call to Islam’ …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Eli Clifton / ThinkProgress:
Iraq By The Numbers: The World's Costliest Cakewalk  —  Powell's infamous presentation at the U.N.  —  The Obama administration's announcement of a withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of the year offers the possibility of a definitive conclusion for the U.S. military's involvement in Iraq.
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG
Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
A skeptical physicist ends up confirming climate data  —  Back in 2010, Richard Muller, a Berkeley physicist and self-proclaimed climate skeptic, decided to launch the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project to review the temperature data that underpinned global-warming claims.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
2012 sneak preview: New pro-Obama group rolls out class-warfare ad against Romney  —  Via Political Wire, what's the most depressing thing about this?  The fact that it grossly distorts support for a lower long-term capital-gains rate generally into some sort of sinister plutocratic carve-out for millionaires specifically?
Discussion: The Politico and Washington Post
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Tea Party Nation poll shows 52 percent will vote for Romney if he is GOP nominee
 
 
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Seth McLaughlin / Washington Times:
Cain tops field again in Nevada GOP straw poll
Jason Noble / Iowa Caucuses:
In Newton, Ron Paul calls for smaller government, less ‘militarism’
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
DealBook:
Live From New York, It's Steve Schwarzman
Discussion: Dealbreaker and Business Insider
George Zornick / thenation.com/blogs/163255:
Shocking Report Reveals the Pentagon's Addiction to Fraudulent Contractors
Wall Street Journal:
Murdochs Are Re-Elected Amid Protest
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Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS:
Obama's Job Approval Average Hits All-Time Low
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Kevin Baron / Yahoo! News:
For $1 billion, one dictator  —  Call him the billion-dollar man.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Lachlan Markay / The Heritage Foundation:
Solyndra to Auction Assets, But Taxpayers Won't See a Dime
Lauren Bans / GQ:
The Hipster Cop: An Occupy Wall Street Conversation
Danielle Camilli / phillyburbs.com:
Website alleges mayor paid for sex
Discussion: Business Insider and Wonkette
 

 
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