David Broucher, Britain's permanent representative at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, recalled Dr Kelly's words: "I will probably be found dead in the woods."

In what appears to be a coincidence, at almost the exact moment the FBI was beaming over Lakhani's arrest, security forces in Saudi Arabia discovered a document indicating that Saudi militants were casing King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in preparation for an attack on a British target.
The Pentagon is so concerned that it is offering $500 for every shoulder-fired missile Iraqis turn over to authorities, but so far, not a single check has been written.

“The only thing new in this world is the history you do not know” Harriet Truman

The polite term for it is hegemony, but in reality, as Mr Boot says, it is Globocop. What other country divides the world up into five military commands with four-star generals to match, keeps several hundred thousand of its legionaries on active duty in 137 countries--and is now unafraid to use them?""

“This was not a terrorist attack. We know what caused this and we are repairing it.” President Bush, within 30 minutes of the blackout

Terrorists definitely were not involved, they said immediately. Too immediately. Whenever a federal official flatly denies something scary within minutes of a calamity or disaster

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

If it wasn't Saddam's "diehard remnants" who were tormenting them, it must be al-Qa'ida's "remnants" who are destroying America's best efforts to produce democracy in Iraq (though not Afghanistan); "foreign Arab" fighters were creeping over the border from Iran or Syria.

From 1984-1992 Dr Kelly was Head of Microbiology at the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment,

The problem, however, with these story lines is that they are at odds with each other. Indeed, the reason we are in Iraq in the first place is that significant parts of the Bush administration really want to be there. Wolfowitz, even with his caught-in-the-headlights look, doesn’t want to give up on this—doesn’t (perhaps sensibly) want to trust Iraqis with the process of democratization. And for much of the non-Powell side of the administration, only over their dead bodies would we turn back to the U.N. Not to mention, Rumsfeld surely thinks we can fight our way out of this.
So, dangerously, the story line from the Bush writers is full of divided motivations and intent.

They know that President George Bush is getting desperate, that he will do anything - that he may even go to the dreaded Security Council for help - to reduce US military losses in Iraq. But yesterday's attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad has slammed shut the door to that escape route.

Ever notice nobody ever had to run as a 'Compassionate Liberal?'

Mr. Bremer seems well equipped for his Iraq mission and comes from over a decade at Kissinger Associates

THE PRESIDENT: " And then we had the drumbeat to war. Remember on our TV screens -- I'm not suggesting which network did this -- but it said, "March to War," every day from last summer until the spring -- "March to War, March to War." That's not a very conducive environment for people to take risk, when they hear, "March to War" all the time."
THE PRESIDENT:"... And then as you may remember, Tom, we had the steady drumbeat to war. As I mentioned in my press conference the other day, on our TV screens there was a -- on some TV screens -- there was a constant reminder for the American people, "march to war."