Bush's Cambodia

• The latest from the Daily Journal: see Bush's Low Grade War on Iran

Bush's Lethal Way Forward

Good Morning. A couple of new items today...

• The Bush speech is on a few people's minds. Overly so? It was anticlimactic, poorly written and not quite the change in direction advertised. See "A Calamity Foretold"
  

• Why Ali Allawi, an Iraqi ex-minister, isn't proposing a more realistic alternative: "A Real Blueprint for Peace?"
  

• Thomas Friedman Smugwatch

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Bush Speech Therapy

Good Morning. A few new items:

• The best therapy for -- and most forceful civic response to -- Bush's speech on Iraq? "Don't Watch."
  

• It's not all gloomy in America. See Pierre's Tuesday Column, "American Scriptures: Speeches that Made a Nation"
  

• Another grim marker: On Thursday, the Guantanamo's Gitmo turns five years old.

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Escalation to Nowhere

Good Morning. Today's new items at the Notebooks:

• Even when the victors write the rules of war, the results are absurd. What happens when the losers keep writing the rules? See "We Are the Savages."
  

• Bob Nardelli took a $215 million severance package after reaping more than $200 million in salaries and stock options as head of Home Depot, even though the company's performance was middling to anemic. Yet Nardelli was hailed as a new kind of leader for his military style. See "Military Freaks at Home Depot"
  

• Afghanistan bans "Kabul Express," a movie critical to the Taliban
  

• Israel readies to Nuke Iran?

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