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Posted By Elizabeth Dickinson Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 11:30 AM Share

Eli Lake says don't be fooled. The U.S. will be in Iraq long past 2011.

Douglas E. Schoen thinks Russia is positioning itself for a confrontation with the U.S.

The Financial Times says the Doha talks are still stalled by domestic interests.

The Wall Street Journal blogs on how the shoe incident is the talk of Baghdad.

Ben Bernanke explained how the Fed fights deflation in a prescient 2002 speech.

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10:42 AM ET

December 18, 2008

When do we have permission

When do we have permission not to take Eli Lake seriously? He's been a neoconservative war-supporter from the beginning. He's continued to believe the WMD canards long after it was proven they didn't exist and that intelligence saying they did was completely ginned up. I'm staggered that anyone gives this loon the time of day. His side lost and he just can't accept it. Now he fantasizes that Barack is a secret war-monger like himself, just as he fantasized the WMDs all the way into 2006.

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