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2:50 PM ET, June 10, 2007

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CBS News:
Lieberman: Bomb Iran If It Doesn't Stop  —  Conn. Dem.  Says The U.S. Should Strike If Tehran Keeps Helping Anti-U.S. Forces In Iraq  —  (CBS) The United States should launch military strikes against Iran if the government in Tehran does not stop supplying anti-American forces in Iraq …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Lieberman: 'We've Got To Be Prepared To Take Aggressive Military Action' Against Iran  —  This morning on CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) strongly advocated preparing for a strike against Iran.  —  "I think we have to be prepared to take aggressive military action …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Lieberman is Bombs away on Iran  —  Joe Lieberman's warmongering continues as he jumps on the bomb Iran bandwagon.  Is anyone surprised?  —  Download (34) |  Play (30) Download (24) |  Play (19) … The Neocon cabal is alive and well inside the White House and supported by the <Independent> Lieberman.
Discussion: My Two Sense
Associated Press:
Lieberman: U.S. Should Weigh Iran Attack  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Sunday the United States should consider a military strike against Iran because of Tehran's involvement in Iraq.  —  "I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
New York Times:
The Guidebook for Taking a Life  —  We were in a small house in Zarqa, Jordan, trying to interview two heavily bearded Islamic militants about their distribution of recruitment videos when one of us asked one too many questions.  —  "He's American?" one of the militants growled.  "Let's kidnap and kill him."
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Joe Klein / TIME: Swampland:
Next Year in Iraq  —  Tom Ricks has this to say about military planning in Iraq today.  There are two important points here.  The first is this: … [Italics mine]  —  In other words, all the yammering by various politicians about bringing the troops home by March 2008 is nonsense.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Snow: Bush standing firm behind Gonzales  —  WASHINGTON - The White House on Sunday dismissed Senate plans to hold a no-confidence vote on the attorney general and said the outcome will not undermine President Bush's resolve to keep Alberto Gonzales at the Justice Department.  —  "Not a bit.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Mark Townsend / Observer:
MI6 probes UK nuclear link to Iran  —  A British company has been closed down after being caught in an apparent attempt to sell black-market weapons-grade uranium to Iran and Sudan, The Observer can reveal.  —  Anti-terrorist officers and MI6 are now investigating a wider British-based plot allegedly …
Mark Stevenson / Associated Press:
Gonzales: US eyeing gun flow into Mexico  —  CUERNAVACA, Mexico — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday that Washington is taking steps to address Mexican concerns the U.S. is not doing enough to stop illegal weapons from being smuggled across the border and into the hands of brutal drug gangs.
Discussion: Wizbang and PoliPundit.com
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Why Washington Can't Get Much Done  —  MEMBERS of Congress — with the possible exceptions of Senator Robert C. Byrd and Representative John D. Dingell — come and go.  So do presidents and even Supreme Court justices.  —  But some big issues come to the nation's capital and never leave …
Joseph / CANNONFIRE:
The gay bomb  —  No, the title of this post does not refer to the 1997 flick Batman and Robin.  I'd call this report jaw-dropping, but some folks might take that as a pun. … This sounds like a plotline for an episode of "American Dad."  We even have a reference to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base …
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David E / David E's Fablog:
FAIT DIVERS: POLITICAL SCIENCE
Discussion: Hot Air and Jules Crittenden
Daniel Gross / New York Times:
Income Inequality, Writ Larger  —  INCOME inequality is a hot topic in politics and economics.  The rising economic tide is lifting a bunch of yachts, but leaving those in simple boats just bobbing along.  —  Two professors — Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and Emmanuel Saez …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
CONVENIENT ARGUMENTS....Daniel Gross writes in the New York Times …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Democrats' Prosperity Problem  —  Early in George W. Bush's presidency, liberal critics said: The economy is not growing.  Which was true.  He inherited the debris of the 1990s' irrational exuberances.  A brief (eight months) and mild (the mildest since World War II) recession began in March 2001 …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Zero-to-60 Thompson Run  —  Fred gears up for 2008.  —  In early March, only a handful of Fred Thompson's good friends knew that he was even thinking about a bid for president.  Three months later, according to several polls, Thompson is in second place nationally, trailing frontrunner Rudy Giuliani.
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
The GOP Talking Points on Libby Debunked, By WaPo No Less  —  David Broder would have done himself a favor if he had read the Washington Post reporter who actually covered the Scooter Libby trial, Carol Leonnig before he penned his embarrassing regurgitation of GOP Talking Points.
Discussion: Washington Post
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Judge Walton's Lesson
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The $5 Million Man?  —  If the latest report pans out, Ron Paul has leaped out of the asterisk box in the GOP campaign.  His largely online funding, if verified, would put him on a par with McCain.  Money quote: … I'd credit the Internet, wouldn't you?  Stay tuned for confirmation.
 
 
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