Blue Blogs: Worthy Mentions from the Liberal Blogosphere

Here are what some of the liberal blogs are posting:

TPM Muckraker:'Schlozman Admits Touting GOP Qualifications ofProspective Prosecutors' - In writtenanswers to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bradley Schlozman,the former Justice Department official and U.S. attorney who's been at thecenter of the firings controversy, admitted that he'd once urged hiring certainprosecutors for his office based on their political affiliation. It's againstcivil service laws to do so.

But he had a reason, he explains(how good a reason, you can decide for yourself). When serving as the interimU.S. attorney for Kansas City, Schlozman had been unable to hire assistant U.S.attorneys on his own, as Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys are able to do. Forthat, he had to go through the central office, or in this case, Monica Goodling,the Department's White House liaison. He'd "heard rumors," hewrites,"that Ms. Goodling considered political affiliation in approvinghiring decisions for career positions." Goodling, of course, admittedin testimony to Congress that she'd made sure that only Republicans were hiredfor certain non-political positions. Readon...

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ABCNews via Raw Story:  'Florida-SizeChunk of Arctic Melted in 6 Days' (Arctic Ice Continues Record Melting)Scientists report that arctic ice the size of the state of Florida has melted inthe last six days. (ABCNEWS)

An area of Arctic sea ice the size of Florida has melted away in just thelast six days as melting at the top of the planet continues at a record rate.2007 has already broken the record for the lowest amount of sea ice everrecorded, say scientists, smashing the old record set in 2005. Currently, thereare about 1.63 million square miles of Arctic ice, according to the NationalSnow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. That is well below the record of 2.05million square miles set two summers ago and could drop even lower before thefinal numbers are in. Readon...

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ThinkProgress:  'What Petraeus and Crocker didn’t say'- McClatchy notesthat while Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker yesterday repeatedlyreferenced declines in Baghdad’s sectarian violence, they completely ignoredthe city’s ethnic cleansing: A chart displayed by Army Gen. David Petraeusthat purported to show the decline in sectarian violence in Baghdad betweenDecember and August made no effort to show that the ethnic character of many ofthe neighborhoods had changed in that same period from majority Sunni Muslim ormixed to majority Shiite Muslim. Readon...

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My LeftNutmeg: 'Iraq by the Numbers' - Connecticut's very own JR. Senator, Joeneocon Lieberman, bloviates in another WSJ propaganda hit piece claimingthat "advocates of withdrawal risk makingthe exact same mistake" (Which mistake Joe? Of being completely andtotally correct and making you and your  warmongering republican brethrenlook like total failures and lunatics AGAIN?) and, meanwhile, support for thecontinued occupation of Iraq is slipping even further both in Iraq and the USAto the dismay of Republican operatives currently hitting the airwaves to sharetheir rosy propaganda pictures. Iraqis currently overwhelmingly oppose thepresence of coalition forces to the point where the support of violence againstthe occupying coalition forces is rising. Readon...

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TheHuffington Post: 'Key Republican Question Iraq Strategy' - WASHINGTON— A prominent Republican on Tuesday said he remains deeply skeptical of theU.S. war strategy in Iraq, comparing the long and bloody military campaign to afarmer risking his savings to plant on a flood plain. "In my judgment, sometype of success in Iraq is possible, but as policymakers, we should acknowledgethat we are facing extraordinarily narrow margins for achieving our goals,"Sen. Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee, told the top U.S. military commander and the American ambassadorthere. Lugar, R-Ind., has called for a sizable drawdown in coming months, a planthat runs counter to Gen. David Petraeus' recommendation. Petraeus says theUnited States should withdraw the 30,000 extra troops deployed earlier thisyear, but maintain the approximately 130,000 troops _ who would be left there _at least through next summer. Readon... Also: 'TheDay After: EditorialsNot Convinced by Petraeus'

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NewsHounds: 'Brit Hume Suggests That Diplomacy with Iran IsImpossible and Intervention by a Non-American Military Is Needed' -Yesterday FOX News anchor Brit Hume had an "exclusive" interview withGen. David Petraeus and Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker. In other words, FOX Newsoffered Petraeus and Crocker a cozy womb in which they could comfortably spoutadministration talking points secure in the knowledge that there would be nohardball questions from the interviewer. General Petraeus rolled out some fancyflow charts designed to justify his claims that there has been decidedimprovement militarily in Iraq. He claimed that Iraq is in the midst of an"ethno-sectarian competition for resources" that must play out andPetraeus clearly believes that American soldiers must stay there, beings killedand wounded, for God knows how many years until the Iraqis calm down and decidehow they want to structure their own government. Petraeus and later Ryan Crockermade sure to sprinkle the word "Al Qaeda" liberally throughout thediscussion, despite the fact that bin Laden's group is a very minor player inthe Iraqi conflict. Readon ...With video.

Comment: I looks like FOX is starting to do"their job" of preparing us for a conflict with Iran?

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Latest Neo-con folly quickly exposed...

To understand the true source of these latest odd "Al Qaeda" video releases, all you need to ask is:
Who do they benefit the most? Can you say Neo-Cons?

Which is the real Osama?

It is very curious that the US released the first of these Bin Laden videos before Al Qaeda did! Very curious indeed! Likewise, other people have pointed out that all references to recent events come during the still frames. And of course there's the morphing face of Osama. Is he having periodic plastic surgery or is this simply another actor trying to keep the Neo-Con wet dream alive? And why is it that the US government can get these videos so quickly, yet supposedly can't find Osama and crew?

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