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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Quick take headlines: terror-fying
The Center For American Progress and Foreign Policy magazine release the results of a study by scores of terrorism expert. Their grade for the War on Terror? F. Read the full report here or here.

The steward of Iraq, Mr. al-Maliki, starts his own little war on terror (which doesn't include getting rid of the American overlord's 130,000 troops.) Maliki's first gambit: talk to the insurgents, and pardon those whom he says are simply fighting the foreign occupation.

And that treasure trove of documents found in the Zarqawi rubble? It included indications that al-Qaida in Iraq wanted to start a war between the U.S. and Iran, something they seem to share with Bill Kristol and John Bolton.

Meanwhile, the number of U.S. troops killed by hostile action in Iraq hits 2,500.

Also from Bloomberg, since the EU and U.S. made their new offer, Iran is apparently cooperating even less with the U.N. ...

Ain't that America: A federal judge in Brooklyn says the Bush administration does have the authority to "detain noncitizens on the basis of religion, race or national origin, and to hold them indefinitely without explanation."

President Bush apologizes to former Miami Herald (and now L.A. Times) reporter Peter Wallsten for remarking on his dark glasses. Wallsten is legally blind...

Tags: , Politics, Iran, Iraq
posted by JReid @ 10:26 AM  


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