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Q: Mr. President, if I could ask you, with thousands marching on the streets today here in London, a free nation, what is your conclusion as to why apparently so many free citizens fear you and even hate you?

MR. BUSH: I'd say freedom is beautiful. It's a fantastic thing to come to a country where people are able to express their views.

Excerpts from a November 20th news conference in London by Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and President Bush (Source: New York Times as recorded by the Federal News Service Inc.)

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"President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended " (Source: Official White House website).

"U.S. Intensifies Strikes at Guerrillas in Iraq":
Operation Iron Hammer, the name of the campaign in its second day Thursday, marked another change in U.S. tactics to put down resistance in central Iraq.
"This is the same force that came out of Kuwait and won the war...," said Lt. Col. George Krivo, a spokesman for occupation forces.
One military official said the aim of Operation Iron Hammer was not so much battlefield advantage as creating a perception that the United States has taken the initiative. Managing perceptions is considered critical among top commanders, the official said.
Some American observers here are skeptical [though]. "I don't know that this will impress anyone very much," said a senior civilian official in the Coalition Provisional Authority. "Maybe it will be good for the troops' morale." (Source: Washington Post)

"CIA report: Iraqis losing faith in U.S.":
Lack of confidence in coalition may be helping resistance. (Source: MSNBC)

"Bomb at Italian Base in Iraq Kills at Least 26":
18 Italians Among Dead (Source: Washington Post)

"Iraq Policy in Crisis":
The abrupt recall of America's top administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer III, for two days of urgent White House consultations signals a new level of alarm among American policy makers. (Source: New York Times)

"CIA: No evidence of WMD transfer":
Agency has no proof that Saddam gave weapons to terrorists (Source: Washington Post)

"At Least 17 Dead as 2 U.S. Copters Collide Over Iraq":
American officials said the collision occurred when one of the helicopters came under hostile fire from the ground and swerved upward to avoid it, driving its rotor into the second helicopter. (Source: New York Times)

"America's Gamble: A Quick Exit Plan for Iraq":
The announcement of a firm date to create an interim Iraqi government and end the formal American occupation - though not the American military presence - promises the Iraqis the sovereignty they have clamored for, and offers President Bush the political symbol he needed: the beginnings of an exit strategy that he can explain to American voters.
But the price of a speedy transfer of power, Mr. Bush's own top aides worry, may be a rapid loss of control - control over the drafting of a constitution, and over the effort to make democracy flower in a land where it had never been cultivated.
"It's a gamble, a huge gamble," one of the most senior architects of Mr. Bush's campaign to oust Saddam Hussein conceded this week, after two days of meetings with L. Paul Bremer III, the head of the American-led occupation authority. "But it's easy to overestimate the degree of control we have over events now," the official said, "and to underestimate how much we will retain." (Source: New York Times)

"U.N. Officials Are Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop":
The Bush administration's decision this week to speed up the transfer of power to the Iraqis won evenhanded, public praise from Secretary General Kofi Annan, who had long championed a quicker restoration of Iraqi sovereignty.
But officials and diplomats here, while welcoming the policy change, warned privately against a rapid reduction of American military forces and said they feared that the United States would dump Iraq into the hands of the United Nations. (Source: New York Times)

"Hussein, on Tape Sent to Arab TV, Said to Urge War":
An Arab television station broadcast a new audiotape on Sunday that it said had been made by Saddam Hussein in which the speaker mixed invective against Israel, calls for holy war and curses on American and other foreign occupation troops in Iraq. (Source: New York Times)

"Plan for Guerrilla Action May Have Predated War":
American intelligence agencies have found increasing evidence that the broad outlines of the guerrilla campaign being waged against American forces in Iraq were laid down before the war by the Iraqi Intelligence Service, government officials said Friday. (Source: New York Times)

"Iraq Goes Sour":
A great editorial summing up all the mismanagment gaffes by the Bush administration of the situation in Iraq. (Source: New York Times)

Conceived by music archivist Michael Ochs and graphic designer Craig Butler, this project takes album cover art to a whole new level. One hundred established graphic and fine artists were approached to create the definitive album cover of their favorite recording artist.

- DJ Clue Where Ya Hood At?? Vol. 4

- Eddie Black The Incredible: this kid, out of DC, is gonna be a problem. Stylistically, he's in the meeting ground between Chingy, Mystikal and Ludacris. (Email Game Official for details on how to order this tape.)

The East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP) is an award-winning non-profit organization which offers over 500 young people individual tutoring in reading, writing, math, science, computers/technology and much more. The EHTP's Junior Board's objective is to raise the awareness of young New Yorkers about EHTP and to increase contributions to the organization.

50 CENT & G UNIT RECORDS ARE GIVING AWAY $50,000.00 WORTH OF DIAMONDS!
As a bonus, four “Golden Tickets” will be inserted into four random pressings of the first 1 Million copies of Beg For Mercy. Each winner will receive a chain with a diamond studded spinning G Unit medallion valued at $12,500. (No purchase necessary, See Official Rules Here.)"

JAY-Z'S THE BLACK ALBUM "CHANGE CARS" PROMOTION
Jay-Z is offering you a chance to "Change Cars" when you pick up a copy of THE BLACK ALBUM!! That's right! Three fans who purchase the official album will win a Black CLK 320 sport sedan Mercedes Benz. Ten runner-ups will win limited edition books featuring lyrics and original artwork.

FORMER CIA OFFICIAL TELLS PBS: OUTED OFFICER 'HAS BEEN UNDER COVER FOR THREE DECADES'
Outed CIA agent "Valerie Plame" was under cover for three decades and was not a "CIA analyst" as columnist Bob Novak has suggested.

"I worked with this woman. She started training with me. She has been under cover for three decades. She is not as Bob Novak suggested a "CIA analyst." Given that, i was a CIA analyst for 4 years. I was under cover. I could not divulge to my family outside of my wife that I worked for the CIA until I left the Intelligence Agency on Sept. 30, 1989. At that point I could admit it. The fact that she was under cover for three decades and that has been divulged is outrageous. She was put undercover for certain reasons. One, she works in an area where people she works with overseas could be compromised...

"For these journalists to argue that this is no big deal... and if I hear another Republican operative suggesting that, well, this was just an analyst. Fine. Let them go undercover. Let's put them go overseas. Let's out them and see how they like it...

"I say this as a registered Republican. I am on record giving contributions to the George Bush campaign. This is not about partisan politics. This is about a betrayal, a political smear, of an individual who had no relevance to the story. Publishing her name in that story added nothing to it because the entire intent was, correctly as Amb. Wilson noted, to intimidate, to suggest taht there was some impropriety that somehow his wife was in a decision-making position to influence his ability to go over and savage a stupid policy, an erroneous policy, and frankly what was a false policy of suggesting that there was nuclear material in Iraq that required this war. This was about a political attack. To pretend it was something else, to get into this parsing of words.

"I tell you, it sickens me to be a Republican to see this." --Larry Johnson, former counter-terrorism official at the CIA & State Department from PBS's NEWSHOUR. (Source: The Drudge Report)