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• Indefinite light blogging

Some things worth knowing about that I didn't devote separate posts to:   

• Natan Sharansky: Leave Iraq and Brace for a Bigger Bloodbath
• NYT editorial: Pull out now
• NYT surrenders 
• Genocide Preferred 
• Choose Genocide

• Base to Bush: It's Over
  Byron York: Let's say you're a Republican president, a bit more than midway through your second term. You're scrambling to salvage what you can of a deeply unpopular war, you're facing a line of subpoenas from Democrats in Congress and your poll ratings are in the basement. What do you do? You estrange the very Republicans whose backing you need the most. ...
• Bush fatigue, Republican style

• UK Warning: Look Out For People Doing Things
  Iowahawk: London - British public safety officials today increased the national alert level to "Quite Elevated Indeed" -- the highest category possible -- and appealed to UK citizens to "keep a sharp lookout for diverse people engaged in activities." ...

• The impeachment drive gains steam
  (Just read it.)

• Blackwater manager blamed for 2004 massacre in Fallujah
  Military contractors write that a site manager sent four Americans on an ill-advised, fatal mission

• Iranians Detained in Iraq Claim They Have Been Poorly Treated by U.S.
  (Cry me a frickin' river.)
• Missing Iranian general defected, now spilling nuclear secrets
  Allahpundit: Remember him? He disappeared in Turkey, possibly voluntarily, possibly not. By general consensus he’s in western custody, possibly sharing important information, possibly not. The story blew over by the end of March and he hasn’t been heard from since — until now: ...

• LAT congratulates itself: “Thompson star dims on abortion issue”!
  Allahpundit: The evidence? Two mild quotes from Paul Weyrich and a bare assertion by a random GOP strategist in New Hampshire that “People who really believe in the pro-life cause will not be happy.” Consider that star dimmed. Meanwhile, the AP reports “wild applause” for his speech to the Young Republican National Convention in Florida yesterday. ...
• When Did Fred Start At Arent Fox?
  Ed Morrissey: An interesting question came to me from CQ reader Adam W regarding the Los Angeles Times' story about Fred Thompson and his supposed work for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association in 1991. ...

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