Reason Morning Links: WaPo Slams Obama's Auto Bailout Speech, Love Letters Help a Syrian Survive Torture, Margaret Thatcher Tells Sarah Palin to Get Lost

• The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler details President Obama's "phony accounting" of the Detroit bailout. 
• Roughly 46,000 U.S. troops are still in Iraq, and still dying. 
• Al Jazeera reports on "a young man's account of sadistic torture in a Syrian secret prison, and how a girl's note helped him through his pain."
• Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has declined to entertain former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. 
• The war between Mexico's Gulf Cartel and the Zetas gets even more obscene, with Zetas hanging GC supporters from bridges, and the GC developing "narco-tanks." 
• Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tx.) woos food industry workers.

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