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Iraqi shoe tosser gets one slung at him

USA Today - Wed Dec 2, 1:24 am ET

The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year was attacked by a shoe-thrower in Paris.

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Separate Afghan war funding bill needed: U.S. lawmaker
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 3:23 pm ET
The U.S. Congress likely will need to pass a separate spending bill next year to pay for President Barack Obama's troop increase in Afghanistan, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said on Tuesday.
Obama speech: More troops, no endless commitment
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 2:40 pm ET
President Barack Obama is sending 30,000 extra U.S. troops to Afghanistan on an accelerated timetable that will have the first Marines there as early as Christmas and all forces in place by summer. But he'll also declare Tuesday night that troops will start leaving in 19 months.
Tough sell
Washington Post - 1 hour 6 minutes ago
The sea of gray-suited cadets proved to be a useful backdrop for the night that Barack Obama officially became a war president.
Obama’s Troop Increase Means He ‘Owns’ Afghan War
Bloomberg via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 2:19 pm ET
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will announce tonight he is sending an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan and that American forces will begin withdrawing before the end of his first term, administration officials said.
Obama Lays Out New Afghanistan Strategy
CBS News - Wed Dec 2, 1:00 am ET
President Deploying 30,000 More Troops, Plans Pullout Beginning July 2011; Says "I do not Make This Decision Lightly"
Crocker tapped for Bush school
The Bryan-College Station Eagle - 1 hour 47 minutes ago
George W. Bush's ambassador to Iraq should lead the Texas A&M government school that bears the Bush family name, a search committee has concluded.Ryan Crocker served as America's chief diplomat to the war-torn country from 2007 to 2009, capping a ...
Hoyer Slams Cheney for Obama Criticism
Fox News - Tue Dec 1, 1:46 pm ET
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer took aim at Dick Cheney on Tuesday after the former vice president's recent criticism of President Obama, saying the Bush administration's handling of Afghanistan forced the president to take his time deciding on a new strategy for the war-torn country.
With all bad choices, a path with tiny hope
The Charlotte Observer - Tue Dec 1, 10:38 pm ET
If President George W. Bush , Donald Rumsfeld and Congress had handled things right, the situation in Afghanistan might have been very different today.
GOP rescuing Obama's Afghan policy
CNN - Tue Dec 1, 1:31 pm ET
President Obama is in a unique position these days.
Before Audience of Cadets, a Sobering Message of War
New York Times - Wed Dec 2, 12:13 am ET
Barack Obama may be the one president of the television age who can make a star turn at West Point look like a graduate seminar at Yale.
Fellow Iraqi turns tables on Bush shoe-thrower
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 5:10 pm ET
An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris on Tuesday.
E-mails show couple had no state dinner invitation
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 3:29 am ET
Copies of e-mails between the White House party crashers and a Pentagon official undermine their claims that they were invited to President Barack Obama's first state dinner.
With narrower military goals, Obama ups the ante
Washington Post - Tue Dec 1, 11:42 pm ET
Six months after saying he doubted that "piling on more and more troops" was the road to success in Afghanistan, and then warning his commanders not to ask for more, President Obama has given Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal nearly all the troops that he wanted.
WH gatecrashers went without confirmed invitation
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 11:27 pm ET
The attention-hungry couple that crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner admitted to a friendly Pentagon official that they went without a confirmed invitation — just in case they got approved at the last minute.
Obama orders 30,000-troop boost in Afghanistan
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 11:22 pm ET
Declaring "our security is at stake," President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Afghanistan Tuesday night, nearly tripling the force he inherited as commander in chief. He promised an impatient public he would begin bringing units home in 18 months.
Afghan Plan Met With Cautious Approval
NPR - 30 minutes ago
The president's decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan received a generally positive assessment from the top U.S. commander in the region and even congressional Republicans. Obama may face more skepticism from fellow Democrats, many of whom said they weren't swayed that a surge will hasten an end to the war.
Obama: More troops for Afghanistan, with exit plan
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 9:41 pm ET
Declaring "our security is at stake," President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Afghanistan Tuesday night, nearly tripling the force he inherited as commander in chief. He promised an impatient public he would begin bringing units home in 18 months.
Fla. attorney charged in alleged Ponzi case
USA Today - Tue Dec 1, 9:22 pm ET
Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein was charged with racketeering conspiracy for allegedly victimizing clients in a $1 billion Ponzi case.
Iraqi Shoe-Thrower Finds Out What It Was Like
WCVB Boston - Wed Dec 2, 5:45 am ET
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris.
Not Nearly Enough On Afghanistan
Forbes - Tue Dec 1, 8:52 pm ET
Why Obama's finite commitment is dangerous.