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At this hour, it looks like Armey will be leading the show with more reax on Bush's
speech and why he changed his mind on an invasion of Iraq...In the B & C blocks, we'll
do the latest on the Maryland sniper shootings...We'll talk to some experts about what
the police know and what their next move should be...(btw, for those of you asking,
the show is divided into six segments, A-F...A block, commercial break, B block
commercial break, and so on...)
In the D debate block, Shuster and Jamison are putting a package together on a
post-Saddam Iraq...Question: Does America have a viable plan for Iraq after Saddam is
removed? We'll get into it with Shibley and a guy from the Heritage Foundation, Larry
Wortzel...
In the Buzz we're doing Katherine Harris, Ralph and Lawrence...I'm trying to get some
Iowa sound from the weekend as well as some of the stuff from Edwards' CSIS speech
yesterday...
I like this Buzz backgrounder: Democrats look to test their mettle in Iowa
caucuses...Top 3 finishers gain an edge for nomination (The Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/279/nation/Democrats_look_to_test_their_mettle_in_Iowa_caucuses+.shtml
"Friends, I'll tell you a simple plan to deal with Saddam Hussein," Kerry told party
activists, who will hold the Iowa Caucuses. "Just send the Bush economic team over
there to run the country and you'll bring them to their knees." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021006/pl_nm/politics_democrats_dc_1
Here's an excerpt from Katherine's new book: Center of the Storm'...How Florida's
Secretary of State weathered the 2000 presidential election
http://www.msnbc.com/news/816988.asp
Congress on Tuesday began a fateful three-day debate on authorizing President Bush to
use force to disarm Iraq's Saddam Hussein. If forced into war, "We will prevail," the
president declared. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20021008/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq
Fun Clinton News...Tumulty: When he was still in the White House, Bill Clinton often
worried about how he would "make myself useful" when he left office. Lately he has
shown how. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,361519,00.html
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This just in: Marine killed in shootout in Kuwait...2 assailants wounded, captured
after attack during war games (MSNBC) http://msnbc.com/news/818618.asp
de Moraes bring the inside scoop on the network's lack of coverage last night: ABC,
CBS and NBC all decided not to carry President Bush's speech live at 8 last night.
They said yesterday that they made this call because the White House never asked them
to carry the speech live...Yesterday around 4 p.m., the White House was rethinking
that strategy. Aides called the networks' Washington bureau chiefs to get them to
reconsider and offered to beef up the speech, but still they made no formal request
for coverage.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57618-2002Oct7.html
Media analyst Andrew Tyndall said, ''A measure of how important the White House thinks
the speech is [is] whether it asks for air time. It's not up to the networks to guess
whether he's got something important to say and preempt their programming.'' (Boston
Globe) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/281/nation/Speech_aired_via_few_outlets-.shtml
Grove's Reliable Source: Cause celeb Susan Sarandon might be starring simultaneously
in three different movies -- "The Banger Sisters," "Igby Goes Down" and the
just-released "Moonlight Mile" -- but that hasn't stopped her from plunging headlong
into politics. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56334-2002Oct7.html
Fresh off his address on Iraq, President Bush on Tuesday plunged into political
appearances for gubernatorial candidate Van Hilleary and Senate candidate Lamar
Alexander in Tennessee and thanking big GOP contributors in Washington. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&ncid=703&e=5&u=/ap/20021008/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
Bush puts Iraq in Congress' court...President urges lawmakers to send 'clear message'
to Saddam Hussein http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/812825.asp
Speech Verbate: http://www.msnbc.com/news/818342.asp
Video on demand http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/msnbc/ms100702-10v.htm
Milbank analysis: Bush targets a doubtful public...The White House billed Monday
night's speech by President Bush as a chance for him to explain to average Americans
why it is necessary to disarm and replace Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The speech
didn't come a moment too soon.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/818338.asp
Iraq war vote looms as a battle of the heart Going to war 'the most important decision
any of us will have to make,' one U.S. senator says...For Sen. Tim Johnson, a South
Dakota Democrat, this week's vote on going to war in Iraq will be the most important
of his career ''as a senator, and certainly as a father. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20021008/4514647s.htm
Armey, Lugar Reverse Stand On Resolution...GOP Lawmakers' Support May Help Ensure
Passage (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57226-2002Oct7.html?referer=email
Sr. members of Saddam Hussein's regime are "starting to look for an exit strategy" if
America declares war on Iraq, Western intelligence agencies believe. (London Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-439751,00.html
US sliding into war with Iraq?...Airstrikes in the no-fly zones - and Iraqi
counterattacks - are intensifying. (CS Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1008/p01s04-wosc.html
'Bin Laden tape' being analyzed for validity...Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
said yesterday that an audiotape purporting to be of Osama bin Laden warning of more
attacks is being analyzed. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20021008-26550351.htm
Police hunt D.C.-area sniper...Parents in Washington's suburbs anguished Tuesday when
sending their children out after a sniper linked to the murder of six adults last week
critically wounded a 13-year-old middle-school student.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/816566.asp
Last week, it was shootings on city sidewalks and crowded shopping centers. Now it's
an attack on a 13-year-old walking into a Bowie school. Suddenly the mundane tasks of
everyday life have taken on a frightful edge for people who live in the Washington
area. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20021008-23429364.htm
Political fallout: Shootings Tone Down Gun-Law Politicking...Townsend Takes Swipe At
Ehrlich's Votes (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57136-2002Oct7.html
Protest or Prejudice?...Campaigns to divest colleges and universities of stocks in
companies doing business in Israel are gaining momentum - and focusing attention on
anti-Semitism, free speech, and academic freedom (CS Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1008/p11s01-lepr.html
An American sought by the United States on charges of conspiring to support al-Qaida
has been arrested in Malaysia and faces deportation within days, the deputy prime
minister said Tuesday. (MSNBC) http://msnbc.com/news/817052.asp
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is scaling back his visit to the United States
next week due to the tense security situation in the Middle East, but will still meet
President Bush. (AP) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58743-2002Oct8.html
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday made a surprise appearance for Carl McCall,
trying to boost his struggling campaign for governor. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/59185.htm
GA Gov: Barnes' funds dwarf Perdue's...Incumbent has 17-1 financial edge (Atlanta
Journal Constitution)
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/election2002/1008money.html
Former Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Republican Douglas Forrester immediately exchanged
jabs after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the two candidates to run for
the Senate seat being vacated by scandal-plagued Robert Torricelli. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=683&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20021008/ap_on_el_se/new_jersey_senate
NJ Senate: Among respondents who said they are likely to vote Nov. 5, the race between
Lautenberg and Republican Douglas Forrester is a dead heat -- 44 percent to 44
percent. Among potential voters, Lautenberg holds a 46 percent to 40 percent lead. (NJ
Star Ledger) http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-4/103406861923870.xml
McCain seeks to reject campaign-finance rules...Advocates of overhauling
campaign-finance rules will introduce a Senate measure today to try to overturn the
Federal Election Commission's new campaign-finance regulations. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20021008-32587832.htm
Republican Steve Largent remains the front-runner in his bid to succeed term-limited
Oklahoma Republican Gov. Frank Keating - but the latest independent poll indicates the
contest is not the cakewalk many expected. (CQ)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56565-2002Oct7.html
Bible Belt tunes out abortion lyrics...A new Tim McGraw song has abortion foes tuning
out. Jeannette Walls Delivers The Scoop.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/818327.asp
Inside the Beltway: Stealing a line from her husband's successful campaign for
president, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken to proclaiming: "It's still
the economy, stupid." http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021008-33224134.htm
To Cokie, cancer is no sign to quit (NY Daily News)
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ent_radio/story/25089p-23742c.html
Page Six: Actor Robert Blake's legal team disclosed yesterday it's using political
campaign-style opinion polls to measure public sentiment toward their client, who's
accused of murder. http://www.pagesix.com/celebritynews/48892.htm
Robert Redford will stump for Sanders...Sundance, Roy Hobbs and Jay Gatsby are coming
to South Carolina to help raise money for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alex
Sanders. (The State) http://www.thestate.com/mld/state/news/politics/4235855.htm
Barbra Streisand isn't the only celebrity banging the drums of peace...Hollywood,
which banded together after Sept. 11 to raise funds, flags and patriotic fervor, is
mobilizing an anti-war front to protest President Bush's plans for an attack on Iraq.
(USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20021007/4512103s.htm
Rudy Giuliani for the Nobel Peace Prize?...The Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday that
the idea is "offensive," calling the former mayor "one of the greatest racial
polarizers in the history of American politics." (NY Daily News)
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/25333p-23909c.html
Opinion/Editorial
War at home...I don't know about you, but I'm a lot more afraid of roaming snipers,
gangs of violent kids, and the random, almost casual violence that permeates American
society than Saddam, writes Jill Nelson.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/818297.asp
The Wall Street Journal: How to Liberate Iraq...Toppling Saddam isn't enough.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002400
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: In a sober, low-key speech to the nation, President George W.
Bush pulled together his case for war against Iraq, repeatedly linking the urgency of
the threat to the new sense of "vulnerability" felt by Americans after Sept. 11.
http://home.post-dispatch.com/channel/pdweb.nsf/TodayTuesday/86256A0E0068FE5086256C4C003A675D?OpenDocument&PubWrapper=Editorial
Miniter: Taking Aim...The Maryland sniper and the war on terror.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110002397
O'Rourke: Bill Clinton for N.J. senator?
http://www.suntimes.com/output/orourke/cst-edt-rour08.html
Vinzant: Political dividends...Are Republican presidents better for the stock market?
Not according to history http://msnbc.com/news/818242.asp
Podhoretz: If and when America finally takes up arms against Iraq in the coming
months, President Bush will go on television to explain his action to the American
people. Here's a piece of advice: All he need do is simply repeat the speech he
delivered last night before a somber audience in Cincinnati.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/59158.htm
Mercer: Communism in Capital Markets http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1063
Ingraham: Slick Willie's running http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1002/ingraham.html
Mondo Washington: The Spoils of War...Be the First on Your Block to Make a Buck off
Iraq http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0241/ridgeway.php
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
Steiner http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/steiner.htm
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