the Herald/ACNielsen poll finds that two-thirds of those who felt deceived over the war believed Mr Howard had misled them unintentionally.

Even if the leaders of the Bush team were half as smart as they think they are, it would be amazing that they "misspoke" as often as they have. The pattern is clear: Say what you want people to believe for the front page and on TV, then whisper a half-hearted correction or apology that slips under the radar.

Does Bush even understand the words that are coming out of his mouth? Does he have any clue how many innocent children he has killed?

A discussion takes place in January 2001 concerning the fact that Volusia County, Florida (where else?) came up with -16,022 votes for Gore. Yes, re-read that, Gore was awarded NEGATIVE VOTES.

But as with many of Miller's speculative news reports, the Times as of this week has failed to follow up with admission of error or an accounting of new evidence. If informants' or defectors' revelations were news when Miller reported them, surely they should qualify as news if the government or the Times now believes they were disinformation.

This Bush administration has had many bad-news Fridays:

Four parents of Science Academy sophomores are determined to protect their children. From books.

The GWB speech was broadcast on two television sets on one side of the air-conditioned tent, but the majority of soldiers chose instead to watch American football on the other side, or focus on their beef casserole and ice cream.

As a public service, here are links to a number of articles describing the real Wesley Clark, and it ain't pretty. He's a four-star general on account of his commanding ability to kiss the asses of those above him, probably his only skill when you consider what some of his military colleagues have to say (see the CounterPunch articles), and the man is clearly a pathological egomaniac.
ROBERT FISK: I have to say first of all about General Clark, that I was on the ground in Serbia in Kosovo when he ran the war there. He didn't seem to be very antiwar at the time.

Apparently the policy-makers and diplomats knew nothing about it until the words came off the president's lips.
As the AP noted with gentle understatement: "U.S. and British diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were surprised by Bush's call for a weapons resolution and that Tuesday was the first time they had heard about the idea."


"Has an American president ever delivered such a bafflingly impertinent speech before the general assembly as the one George W Bush gave this morning?
Bush's message can be summarized as follows: The U.S.-led occupation authority is doing good work in Iraq; you should come help us; if you don't, you're on the side of the terrorists.

Somewhere out there are hedge funds or individual investors who profited from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But they had no foreknowledge of the catastrophes, an FBI spokesman said Thursday.
On Sept. 10, 2001, put options on AMR were 17 times their average volume of 269 contracts. On Sept. 6, 2001, UAL put options were traded at more than four times their average volume of 711 contracts.
At the same time, some experts cautioned that because of the light volume in most option contracts, an increase can seem eye-popping