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What must other countries be thinking as they watch our national circular firing squad?

Republicans after an election tend to form a circular firing squad.

The Democrats may finally be stepping away from their circular firing squad.

“I think it’s a circular firing squad at this point.

This is no time for abortion rights activists to form a circular firing squad.

I thought it was the Democrats who employed the circular firing squad method.

There's always a circular firing squad after a losing election, and Palin is standing right in the middle of this one.

If we carried on like that we would have turned into a circular firing squad.

But it is Democrats who are having most fun watching the Republicans’ circular firing squad.

The circular firing squad being conducted by those attacking Steele needs to stop so we can focus on more important issues.

"The circular firing squad has assembled," one confidant said yesterday.

The other candidates are in a circular firing squad."

Some of us feel we are in a circular firing squad," Capito said.

The teams are designed as circular firing squads with the goal of destroying colleagues.

Elsewhere in Washington, the Republican circular firing squad began to assemble.

U.S. officials had blundered into a circular firing squad.

Pat Oliphant's circular firing squad seems the perfect political metaphor for 2011.

The circular firing squad — it was Mitt Romney’s fault!

"I mean it's almost as if they are organizing a circular firing squad before Election Day.

St. Petersburg Times: What happened to the circular firing squad?

Looks more like a circular firing squad.

"We cannot get there if we continue to put bull's eyes on each others' backs and making a circular firing squad," he said.

THE guards backed away and formed a semi- circular firing squad.

A circular firing squad can produce unintended casualties.

On the Republican side, the frontrunners have formed a circular firing squad in a self-destructive frenzy.