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. . . I should have known the President would be early!

MUST VIEWS . . .

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

You can watch a great videoclip (featuring AWESOME quotes from the woman who received the President's volunteer award today) at
http://www.wreg.com/Global/category.asp?C=84619 [3rd option from the top]

You can watch a 17 minute video of the President's arrival in Memphis at
http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5465363

[FYI: Memphis is considered Harold Ford's 'home turf' and yet the reporters featured in the clips above were VERY respectful and enthusiastic!]

BUSH AND KARZAI ON THE NIE
Powerlineblog.com

Yesterday, President Bush and Afghanistan's President Karzai gave a press conference at which Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press demanded to know how Bush can say that the Iraq war has made us safer, when the partially-leaked National Intelligence Estimate says the war has fueled jihadism around the world. We quoted Bush's answer, as well as Karzai's contribution, yesterday, and video of Karzai was on Hot Air yesterday, too. But Bush was also excellent, and if you haven't seen it, the video is well worth a look:

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015391.php

MUST READS . . .

WHAT CLINTON DIDN'T DO . . .
. . . . AND WHEN HE DIDN'T DO IT.
By Richard Miniter
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT

Bill Clinton's outburst on Fox News was something of a public service, launching a debate about the antiterror policies of his administration. This is important because every George W. Bush policy that arouses the ire of Democrats--the Patriot Act, extraordinary rendition, detention without trial, pre-emptive war--is a departure from his predecessor. Where policies overlap--air attacks on infrastructure, secret presidential orders to kill terrorists, intelligence sharing with allies, freezing bank accounts, using police to arrest terror suspects--there is little friction. The question, then, is whether America should return to Mr. Clinton's policies or soldier on with Mr. Bush's.

It is vital that this debate be honest, but so far this has not been the case. Both Mr. Clinton's outrage at Chris Wallace's questioning and the ABC docudrama "The Path to 9/11" are attempts to polarize the nation's memory. While this divisiveness may be good for Mr. Clinton's reputation, it is ultimately unhealthy for the country. What we need, instead, is a cold-eyed look at what works against terrorists and what does not. The policies of the Clinton and Bush administrations ought to be put to the same iron test.

You can read the entire commentary at
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009001

[The leaker?:]
A PILLAR OF THE ANTI-BUSH ESTABLISHMENT

Michelle Malkin takes a characteristically thorough look at Paul Pillar, the CIA’s national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia until just a year ago. There is much speculation that he is the source of the recent NIE leak. This is far from the first time such suspicions have surrounded him.

Pillar served at a high level in the CIA, and has elite educational credentials. Jack Risko of Dinocrat actually read Pillar’s book Negotiating Peace, which was likely at least partly derived from his doctoral dissertation at Princeton, as well as other publications done in a scholarly mode.

Jack drew a picture of a man intellectually committed to the proposition that there is no winning with terrorism. He seems to believe that war is self-defeating. His research examined negotiations as a settlement to conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and Algeria.

You can read the entire commentary at
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6228