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Iran's Given Up Developing Nukes? Eh, Not So Fast

The Wall Street Journal asks some pointed questions about the NIE that was released this week. The US intelligence community declared that Iran was developing nuclear weapons before they declared that it wasn't. Ed Morrissey thinks that the facts fit the "Iran continues to develop nukes" scenario.

Turns out that the Iran NIE was not a consensus finding.

The Israelis don't believe the latest NIE.

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France AKA Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys, Show Signs of Survival Instinct

Another reason to be relieved that Jacques Chirac is gone and conservative Sarkozy now sits in his place. Iran, the EU and the UN can't be too happy about it, though.

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General Petraeus Helped to Pave the Way to Victory in Iraq

Last night in the yet another, interminiable Democrat debate, the Democrat candidates wouldn't commit to a withdrawal from Iraq by 2013. Because Petraeus and The Surge are improving things on the ground in Iraq, and the American people want to keep the positive momentum building to victory.

Cue the outrage at the Daily Kos - good times, good times.

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Iraq's Sistani Doesn't Like the Media Either

Don't know much at Sistani, the Shiite Meester Big of Iraq, but I do know that I agree with Sistani's take about the MSM - his media opinions didn't, of course get reported in the MSM.

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Columbia University, 1933

Bollinger, the President of Columbia University, isn't the first president of the school to invite a fascist to speak. Nicholas Butler, the president in 1933 invited Hitler's ambassador to speak there.

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Columbia University President Pretends to Play Tough to Ahmajinedad

After disgracing Columbia University, the president of the school, Lee Bollinger, tried to recover his reputation by speaking truth to Islamic radical/jihadist power.

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Nouri al-Maliki Is Toughing It Out (Good for Him)

Such dangerous times to be Prime Minister of Iraq. There's been plenty of criticism of Maliki, for a long time now. Turns out, though, that Maliki's shed his coalition of extremists.

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