Today's Columns: Blair v. Bush

LAT: Ronald Brownstein argues that while Tony Blair will forever be linked with George W. Bush for his support of the Iraq war, the two leaders supported the invasion of Iraq "in the service of distinct and even opposing visions." While Iraq for Bush "was a rock through the window of the world's outlaw regimes," for Blair it was "an opportunity for the world community to prove it could come together to enforce global rules."

NYT: Thomas Friedman compares the process of de-Baathification in Iraq to the Bush administration's purge of Democrats from the Justice Department. While "the Bush team has been lecturing the Iraqi Shiites to limit de-Baathification in Baghdad, it was carrying out its own de-Democratization in the Justice Department in Washington," Friedman writes. "What kind of example does that set for Iraqis?" ... Jon Tracy argues that the U.S. military must begin offering appropriate monetary compensation to the family members of those whom U.S. soldiers have wrongfully killed: "Offering honest compensation to the survivors may help the families of victims find forgiveness; more important, perhaps, it may give their neighbors, and all Iraqis, new respect for America's willingness to right its wrongs."

Plus ... Maureen Dowd on the drama surrounding France's power couples.

WaPo: Jim Barksdale and Francine Berman encourage Congress to reconsider legislation aimed at preserving and archiving digital information that can only be found on the Internet and that can disappear with the click of a button. "The importance of developing sensible plans to preserve our digital heritage cannot be minimized," they write.

Plus ... Michael Gerson on the clash between Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere Anglicans ... Harold Meyerson on the Republican voting fraud myth.

WSJ: Bernard Lewis explains that the public discourse within the United States is convincing some Islamists that "they need only to press a little harder to achieve final victory" against the United States.

Plus ... John Schnapp on why Daimler-Benz is lucky to have sold Chrysler.

By Rob Anderson |  May 16, 2007; 9:26 AM ET
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