CBS News | NYT: FBI Watching War Protesters | November 22, 2003 21:06:20

U.S. Seeks Advice From Israel on Iraq : "Some U.S. officials acknowledge that they blanch at the idea of the Pentagon adopting tactics from Israel, a nation regularly criticized for security tactics it employs to battle armed groups it has never managed to quell....Indeed,...the Israeli army's...current chief of staff, Moshe Yaalon, along with a group of retired heads of the Shin Bet internal security service and even some active-duty soldiers say the methods have been unduly harsh and threaten to destroy Israeli and Palestinian society if no solution is found to the conflict. But such concerns have not slowed the flow of information between Washington and Jerusalem."

CIA Seeks Probe of Iraq-Al Qaeda Memo Leak (washingtonpost.com): "If they had such a productive relationship, why did they have to keep trying?"

* TELL US THE TRUTH *

U.S. Military Returns to War Tactics (washingtonpost.com):"In a...public relations push to highlight what it deems to be successes in Iraq -- he showed a picture at a news conference on Thursday of the shot-up truck next to two bodies covered by black shrouds.....'The Americans want to follow the Israeli plan,' said Hamed Hassan, an elderly resident of Hawijat Ali. 'It doesn't work there. Why will it work here?' "

Right, the war was over. Now we're starting it again. Dead bodies are great PR and proof of US success.

New Doubts About Bush Trade Agenda (washingtonpost.com): "President Bush's free-trade agenda is in serious danger of slipping into reverse as next year's national elections loom"

Tobacco-state lawmakers push last-minute buyout plan: "the quota plan is an 'ill-advised scheme,' R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, wrote in a Nov. 14 letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill."

Why are the AARP Board and CEO Providing a Virtual Soft Money Ad Campaign for The Republicans? - BuzzFlash Reader Contribution "AARP, which formally unveiled its new headquarters building in downtown Washington last month, has softened its earlier militancy because it is preoccupied with its profit-making enterprises, including $100 million in earnings from the sale of insurance, mostly Medicare supplemental policies."

FT.com Home UK: "Mr Livingstone said that the cost of policing the Bush visit would add £2 to the average council tax bill in the capital. 'I think most Londoners would be happy to give £4 for him not to come,' the mayor said."

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The Observer | UK News | 'Shoot-to-kill' demand by US

Mirror.co.uk - BRITS ARE NOT ANTI-US..WE JUST DON'T LIKE BUSH: "But tone matters in politics and Bush's tone was that of an upright finger directed at the rest of the planet."