“Forward!”, he cried,
from the rear,
and the front rank died.

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Baghdad bunker which the United States said it bombed on the opening night of the Iraq war in a bid to kill Saddam Hussein never existed"
mr-ed: i wondfer if this is why they never went looking to see what they had hit...

"When you go to Iraq and talk to people there and see the freedom they have, you realize why it was emphatically the right thing to do," said Blair

timeline (so far) of wmd lies, and bbc's

"You may not like the word, but what's happening is occupation," Mr Sharon told angry MPs from his Likud party on Monday. And occupation, he said, repeating the word throughout his comments, "is a terrible thing" for both Israelis and Palestinians.

"Oil and the defense contracts underpinning its protection bind these two countries together in such a way that when Saudi Arabia falls—a fate Baer feels is absolutely certain—the U.S. falls too."

The architect of this perversion is FCC Chairman Michael Powell, son of Colin, a Republican appointed by Dubya and an eager plutocrat plaything.

"We're really not supposed to talk about that subject," her father, Greg Lynch, said during a news conference at the family's rural West Virginia home. "It's still an ongoing investigation and we can't talk about nothing like that."
Greg Lynch said his daughter's memory is good, despite media reports that she suffered from amnesia.
"Her memory is as good as it was when she was home," he said. ``She can still remember everything." But the family has not pressed her for details.

"There's only one thing I've got to say about racial profiling: It's awesome. Seriously. Look at me. I got my ass kicked all through high school. And now, people are actually scared of me," Sarwana said.
Malak said the the best thing about being Egyptian is that he has what he calls an "ambiguous face where the average racist doesn't know which racial slur to call me.
"We want to become more American than Americans. So, me and my family have been discussing it and we're actually thinking about turning in my father. Not because he did anything, but it would just make us look so f------ patriotic," Malak joked.
"Did you guys see this Dan Rather interview with Saddam Hussein on prime-time TV, right before we're trying to kill the guy, he's on prime-time TV, and he challenged President Bush to a debate. Did you guys hear about that? How unfair was that?," Obeidallah said. "Going right for our president's weakness — speaking English.

"This ordinance makes it a crime for looking like you want to proposition someone for sex," said Annette Lamoreaux, American Civil Liberties Union.
"In this country, we only arrest people for committing a crime, not for looking like they are about to commit a crime."

• If one of the charges is, specifically, that you're developing nuclear weapons, best you speed things along.