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snugs: THANK YOU for posting the DOSE tonight! . . . The President is again making history — this last year of his presidency is going to be remarkable!! [Additionally, I love the Christmas tree photos — I can’t wait to watch the HGTV White House Christmas Special AND the new Barnie video!]
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
My daughter and I will attend a book signing ‘party’ for Jenna Bush tomorrow night . . . I’ll make sure she knows just how much we all love her daddy (and momma)!
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MUST READ . . .

IRAQ SAYS STAY
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

Winning The War: One of the most effective rhetorical arguments thrown at supporters of the war in Iraq has been that Iraqis don’t even want us there. But the truth is they do — and badly.

According to the Associated Press, Iraq’s government will soon ask the U.S. to keep troops in that country long-term to guarantee its security against terrorists and predatory neighboring states such as Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

It’s all part of a new “strategic partnership” between the U.S. and Iraq, according to what the AP described as two “senior Iraq officials” from different political parties.

The Iraqis also will ask that the United Nations end its involvement inside the country, go home and wrap up its role in deciding Iraq’s fate — a job it has had since the first Gulf War in 1991. The U.N.’s official mandate expires next year.

All this is good news, both for Iraq and the U.S.

You can read the entire editorial here:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=280970820778222
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IRAQ: BEYOND THE DROP IN VIOLENCE
Maliki: Broadening coalition government.
By Amir Taheri

November 26, 2007 — ‘A TORRENT of good news”: So The New York Times described the reports of a significant fall in violence in Iraq. But reducing all Iraqi news to measures of violence can hamper understanding of a complex situation.

Those who opposed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 prefer to focus on violence, for it has seemed to confirm their claim that the war was wrong. They’ve downplayed all good news from post-Saddam Iraq - the end of an evil regime that had oppressed the Iraqi people for 35 years; the return home of a million-plus Iraqi refugees in the first year after liberation; the fact that the Iraqis got together to write a new constitution and hold referendums and free elections - for the first time in their history - and moved to form coalition governments answerable to the parliament.

The drop in violence is certainly a good thing. But other Iraq news, both good and bad, needs to be taken into account.

You can read the entire commentary here:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11262007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/iraq__beyond_the_drop_in_violence_473299.htm?page=0