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This morning’s must-reads are working for the weekend:
- At least 80 killed in NATO airstrike in Afghanistan (NYT)
- Obama’s Afghanistan contradiction (MoJo)
- The internal White House battle over troop strength in Afghanistan (NYT)
- Hey, What’s in That New Afghanistan Report? (MoJo)
- GOP Campaign Against Blue Dogs: More Bark Than Bite (The Washington Independent)
- Republican Sen. Bob Corker wants to compromise on health care reform? (WaPo)
- Maybe California’s legislature actually can do something! (NYT)
- What’s Obama going to say in that health care speech next week? (WaPo)
- A new Israeli government TV ad compares children of intermarriage to kidnapping victims (The American Prospect)
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