Keith's Special Comment on Free Speech... and Newt Gingrich's assault on it.

[madokie]

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Thursday that his country's forces would be able to assume security command by June 2007 - which could allow the United States to start withdrawing its troops. Bush pledged Thursday that U.S. troops will remain in Iraq to strengthen the authority of embattled prime minister and said the two agreed to speed a turnover of security responsibility to Iraqi forces. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15946832/

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called Thursday on lawmakers and cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to end their boycott of the parliament and government. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15968167/from/RS.3/

The Iraq Study Group has decided to recommend the U.S. military transition from a combat to a support role in Iraq roughly over the next year, a source familiar with the panel's deliberations said. The recommendation by the independent, bipartisan panel would be to pull U.S. fighting forces back to bases inside Iraq, and in the region, as the U.S. military sought to begin to withdraw from combat, the source said on Wednesday. ``The main thing is (the group is) calling for a transition from a combat role to a support role,'' said the source. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-iraq-usa-group.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The right wing is cranking up its machine regarding Danny DeVito's comments about President Bush on 'The View". They say ABC should apologize.
Are these guys grasping at straws?

Britain is monitoring five planes for radiation in an ever widening probe into the poisoning of a former Russian spy that has heightened tensions with Moscow. British Home Secretary John Reid told parliament on Thursday that radioactive traces had been found at 12 out of 24 locations being checked by police and pledged there would be no political barriers to the probe. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15951781/

Doctors treating former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who is ill, believe he was poisoned, an aide said Thursday. Gaidar's illness follows the poisoning of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London just one day before Gaidar fell ill. Another former KGB spy who met with Litvinenko on the day he was allegedly poisoned, Andrei Lugovoy, served as Gaidar's bodyguard at one point. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15969441/

A trainer at SeaWorld Adventure Park remained hospitalized Thursday after a killer whale grabbed him and twice held him underwater during a show, officials said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15964896/

Sheriff's deputies pulled a naked man from the jaws of a nearly 12-foot long alligator that almost completely severed the man's arm, the sheriff's office said. Four deputies waded through thick mud about 20 feet into Lake Parker to find Adrian Apgar, 45, around 4 a.m. Wednesday morning, the sheriff's office said. They were responding to multiple reports about a man screaming for help. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4367895.html

[Bandit]

1. Hmm none of the paragraphs posted concern your subject line.

:shrug:

[ellenfl]

2. i think it was just an announcement of keith's commentary

tonight along with some news headlines.

ellen fl

[madokie]

3. This was the email from Countdown

Just passing it on.