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Today's absolute must reads:

Whatever else you do today, people, don't miss Returning soldiers gunning for Democrats; "For the left, the Iraq war nightmare is still yet to come." (Helmet tips: Russ Vaughn, William Page, James Hooker)

Your second mandatory reading assignment for the day is Cinnamon Stillwell's Ghosts of Vietnam

Get going, folks, now. We'll still be here.

Bogus SF murder charges dismissed

Uncle Jimbo has the story here.

The Petraeus Effect
Lorie Byrd

What a difference a day makes.  Or rather, several days and quite a few hours of congressional testimony and public statements regarding the status of the troop “surge” in Iraq from General David Petraeus.  Not only are the leading Democrats running for President not calling for immediate withdrawal, but they won’t even say that if they were President the troops would be out of Iraq by the end of their four year term.  ...

Do read the whole thing.

Quick hits:

• Outsourcing Conflict
  Robert D. Kaplan: For all the notoriety of private military contractors like Blackwater, they represent an important aspect of the future of war. And that future is not all bad. ...

• PFC Menchaca, PFC Tucker and Spec. Babineau avenged

• The Long Arm of Iran

• Al-Maliki calls [Slow Joe's] idea to split nation 'catastrophe'

• Taiwan Plans to Produce Missiles Able to Hit China

• What's Your Hurry?
  John Hinderaker: The unworkability of FISA in its present form was dramatically highlighted in Congressional testimony yesterday: ...
• Bryan Preston: Why FISA needs to be updated or scrapped

• Fight the bully smear merchants at MoveOn.org
• Another Nefarious Move On America By MoveOn.org
• Photoshop call: Mock MoveOn.org

• Prosecutors Lay Out Case Against Rep. ["Dollar Bill"] Jefferson
• Freezer burn: Revisiting the case of Democrat Rep. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson

• What's with Hillary's laugh?

Contributed by Bill Faith on September 29, 2007 at 12:52 AM | Permalink

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