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Hardball airs on MSNBC at 7p, 11p & 4a ET & 4p, 8p & 1a PT Find MSNBC on your TV http://www.msnbc.com/CableOperator.asp MSNBC also is on your XM satellite radio on channel 130 Tonight we break out fmr. National Security Advisor to President Bush 41 & President Ford, Brent Scowcroft to do the UN reorganization story and more importantly, the announcement by the Pentagon yesterday that we're shipping more troops to Iraq in advance of Iraq's national election on January 30th...This will mark the highest number of troops since the campaign began...A number of those troops are having their tours extended and it would appear that those Iraqi troops we were supposed to train can't do the job...This ain't cool...Brent has been a critic of the war and said so recently to the Financial Times... Brent Backgrounder: Scowcroft Is Critical of Bush...Ex-National Security Adviser Calls Iraq a 'Failing Venture' http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36644-2004Oct15?language=printer Pentagon boosts forces in Iraq to highest level...Tour extensions to bring U.S. force near 150,000 (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6629419/ We'll also talk to outgoing NAACP President Kweisi Mfume about his organization, their opposition to Bush and the Democratic party...Plus, what's the future have in store for Mfume? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6616928/ That United Church of Christ ad is generating controversy as NBC & CBS refuse to air it...We'll roll the ad and talk to a minister representing the Church and Rev. Jerry Falwell http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26458-2004Dec1?language=printer We'll close the show with Patti Davis and her moving tribute to her father Ronald Reagan...Her new book is called "The Long Goodbye" Pls join us for this one of a kind, action packed show...You won't be disappointed I promise Dominic Bellone wrote, edited and compiled The Hardball Briefing from Washington, DC Bush rejects delaying Iraq elections...'Time ... to go to the polls,' president says (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6636827/ Mortars kill 1, wound several in Baghdad...U.S. Embassy bans workers from dangerous Baghdad airport (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6577206/ Tenet Criticizes Intelligence Bill...Ex-CIA Director Opposes Proposed Separation of Duties (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26456-2004Dec1?language=printer Nebraska governor picked as ag secretary...Bush calls Johanns 'a faithful friend to America's farmers' (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6637105/ Bush: U.N. must come clean on Iraq oil scandal...But president doesn't call for Annan's resignation (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6631989/ Vice President Dick Cheney will travel to Afghanistan to attend the inauguration Tuesday of Hamid Karzai as Afghanistan's first directly elected president. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041202/D86NLM8O3.html Democratic governors hope to wrest control of their beleaguered party and make their homegrown policies, tactics and political organizations a key to reversing Republican gains. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041202/D86NHS682.html Kerik tops list to be Homeland chief...Sources say New York City's former police commissioner who also helped train police in Iraq may head federal Homeland Security agency (Newsday) http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uskeri1202,0,4251105,print.story?coll=ny-top-headlines Frist Political Fund Can't Cover Bank Loan...Senator's Investment in Stock Market Has Lost $460,000 in Value Since 2000 (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26558-2004Dec1?language=printer Some abstinence programs misleading...Report documents misstatements in curricula (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6633542/ Kenneth Starr says he never should have led the investigation that resulted in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton. (AP) http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/11633179p-12522663c.html Hitchens to speak at West Point http://nypost.com/gossip/32270.htm Opinion/Editorial Peggy: The Education of Dan Rather...From the golden age of network TV to the end of its hegemony. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110005969 Katrina: With Tom Ridge following Colin Powell out the White House revolving door, George Bush has finally completed his purge of Vietnam veterans from the cabinet. Call it the revenge of the Deferment Generation. http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7&pid=2040 Novak: Bush finding out ride gets bumpier in second term http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak02.html Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/ ========================================= This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received The Hardball Briefing Newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. 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