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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/
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