Up is down, black is white, dark is light, backward is forward, and shit doesn't stink

up...

nyt...

[I]nside the administration, debate is intensifying over whether Mr. Bush should try to prevent more defections by announcing his intention to begin a gradual withdrawal of American troops from the high-casualty neighborhoods of Baghdad and other cities.

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tony snow...

“There is no debate right now on withdrawing forces right now from Iraq,” Snow said.

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ruy teixeira...

Despite four months of a military surge in Iraq, 68 percent of the public either want to withdraw right away (25 percent) or begin bringing troops home within the next year (43 percent). Just 26 percent want to keep troops in Iraq “for as long as it takes to win the war.”

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karl rove...

Yesterday on NBC Nightly News, White House correspondent John Yang said that Bush’s senior political aide Karl Rove has apparently calculated that Iraq will not affect the 2008 elections. Rove, who spoke Sunday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, reportedly said “Iraq may not be a big issue in the next election because, he hopes, troops will be coming home by then.”

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wapo...

n the Shiite Turkmen hamlet of Amerli, 50 miles south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, grief and anger mixed with bewilderment in the aftermath of one of the single deadliest attacks on Iraqis since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Almost everyone seemed to have lost relatives or friends, if not entire families.

The death toll rose to more than 140, but 20 people remain missing, police officials said Sunday. More than 270 people were injured, they added.

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tony snow...

The new levels of attacks “fit a pattern that we see throughout the region,” he said, “which is that when you see things moving towards success, or when you see signs of success, that there are acts of violence.”

poverty is wealth, repression is freedom, crony capitalism is free enterprise, fear-mongering is leadership, obstruction of justice is openness, pollution is clean water and air... geeez, i need a lexicon of special terms just to keep up...

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