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President Bush touched down in West Virginia today for the latest stop in his
public relations offensive for the Iraq War. The latest polls show increasing
pessimism about both a successful resolution to the war and the president's
leadership of it. Today, the president's audience was certainly different from
Tuesday's press conference. Among the roughly 2,000 guests were members of
about 250 military families, according to a report by the AP. Here's more on
the president's town hall today from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032201410.html
Can the president rally the public's faith in his leadership and the now
three-year-old war? Tonight on Hardball, Chris will discuss it with MSNBC
Political Analyst Pat Buchanan and Leon Panetta, former California congressman,
Clinton White House chief of staff, and a member of the newly formed
congressional panel analyzing the Bush Administration's Iraq War policies.
Democratic strategist Steve McMahon and Republican strategist Ed Rogers, a
former White House adviser for the first President Bush, also will be here to
break down the presidential strategy and the outlook for the midterm elections,
particularly in light of the president's statement yesterday that his successor
will have decisions to make about U.S. forces in Iraq.
David Ignatius, a Washington Post columnist who just returned from Baghdad, and
George Packer, a writer for the New Yorker and author of "The Assassin's Gate:
America in Iraq," will be here to talk about what it's like on the ground in
Iraq today.
Also tonight, Gov. Kenny Guinn (R-NV) will be here to talk about his recent
trip to Iraq. Guinn visited National Guard service members as part of a
Pentagon sponsored trip along with the governors of Vermont, Tennessee, and
Virginia.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--MSNBC.com's Mike Stuckey discovers another revolving door on Capitol Hill
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11845981/
--Newsweek's Howard Fineman prescribes a script doctor for the president
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11959588/
--Hardblogger (!!!) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/
--NBC's First Read http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3626796/
--Doonesbury http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html
Brooke Brower compiled the "Hardball Briefing" in Washington, D.C.
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