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* " There is much jockeying for the National Security Adviser post job if Dr Rice does leave. Stephen Hadley, her deputy, seems to be favourite. But other possibilities include Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defence, and leading light among the neoconservatives in the Administration, Mr Blackwill if he does not get the State job, and Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, and a key figure in administration policy in the past four years, who is also sympathetic to the neoconservative approach to foreign policy ends." dog help us. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1334724,00.html

* davemcgowan 911 reoprt, part3 http://davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr69.html

* i hope that jonk has a win that is so resounding that itll knock the sense into everyone - and theres some form of a truth&reconciliation commission where the crooks and ideologues get a chance not to have to hang onto their stoopid ideas any more - and collectively we realise how damn close we were to blowing democracy and decency to kingdom come. and congress and the media and everyone can hang their heads in shame together and promise 'never again'.

* "Less than twenty-four hours after The Nation disclosed that former Secretary of State James Baker and the Carlyle Group were involved in a secret deal to profit from Iraq's debt to Kuwait, NBC was reporting that the deal was "dead."" http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1029-27.htm

* i dont have any real comment on the obl video. the jihadmin purportedly tried to stop the broadcast. and aljaz wont release the transcript (or most of the vid). and i dont have anything interesting to say about the coverage or anything. or the statements. or the election. the media is going nuts. it didnt seem like obl mentioned zarq or iraq. im hoping to see transcripts, and see the differences in the translations. the funny thing is how reasonable sounds - 'dont kill us and we'll leave u alone'. heres weeklystds take "Is there any development in the war on terror, however grave, that the Kerry campaign won't try to exploit for partisan advantage?" kerry on the economy. bush on terror. http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/856mpsdl.asp?pg=2

* 2 the extent that this is true ""We had agreed with the overall commander Mohammed Atta (who led the Sept 11. suicide plane hijackers), may God rest his soul, to carry out all operations in 20 minutes before Bush and his administration take notice," it was a pretty bold plan.

* i really wish jonk wouldnt do the "kill" thing. i hope he is just being advised that he has to minnimise the dick gap.

* "The move, approved by News Corp. shareholders on Tuesday, will see Murdoch’s empire incorporated in Delaware and listed on the New York Stock Exchange as early as Nov. 4."

* "I’ve mentioned before the Bushies’ obsession with visual images in the Iraq War, from the staged toppling of Saddam’s statue to the flight deck, as if they’re constantly auditioning for a postage stamp." (just cos i thought it was funny) http://whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com/

* i wasnt gonna do the votefraud thing - but i didnt want u to miss this one: in florida, if they need to do a recount, they just print out the same answer from the audit logs. but if theres a discrepancy, they go back to the original count.

* " United Nations officials tell NEWSWEEK that the Al Qaqaa case may only be the tip of the iceberg. As many as 10,000 other conventional-arms dumps dotted around Iraq are believed to have been looted after the U.S. invasion, the officials say. In addition, as many as 30 out of 90 of Saddam's known nuclear research facilities were also stripped down—some to the ground—by looters." seriously. is it possible to be this incompetent? if it was a war against communism, eg, it would be really stupid to leave all this shit there. but to do it in a war against wmd? and a war against terrorism. and to claim success cos we are fighting them there. its truly brainmelting. im serious. its so egregious. even if u buy into the groupthink/flowerthrowing story, to not even consider that there might be 100 or so folk who wanna still hurt you is almost inconceivable. and incomprehensibly negligent. and for the cherryontop - the places they did search, were on a list from chalabi.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6346471/site/newsweek/

* seems to me all that the repugs have got left in the tank is some jijitsu - they took days to respond to alqaqaa, even tho they had minimum 10 days to prepare - they were just hoping that jonk would do something, anything wrong, which he didnt so all we got was that incredible cloud. seems they did the same with the obl tape -

* "A U.S. Army officer came forward Friday to say a team from the 3rd Infantry Division took about 250 tons of munitions and other material from the Al-Qaqaa (search) arms-storage facility soon after Saddam Hussein's regime fell in April 2003." make it stop. "According to Pearson, the team removed 250 tons of material including TNT, plastic explosives, detonation cords and munitions. He arrived at that estimate because he said the team used nine truck-trailer combinations that each could carry 33 tons of material." make it stop. ""At the time when I was there, that area was very pacified where there wasn't a lot of civilians in the area at that time. If they were, they were very respectful to U.S. forces. They were very respectful to us. I didn't see any hostilities at that location at that time,” he told reporters." make it stop. "he missing explosives — powerful enough to demolish a building, bring down a jetliner or even trigger a nuclear weapon" or two. make it stop. "Shaw said he believed the munitions were moved to Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 invasion." make it stop. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137017,00.html

* is the emnimem video a bigger issue than the obl vid?

* or comical azzam the american? "After what is supposed to have been extensive examination by both the CIA and the FBI, ABC News finally decided to broadcast parts of the tape on Thursday. Both the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and al-Jazeera say the tape is the genuine article in terms of jihadi media, with good production values such as Arabic subtitles and a scrolling message across the bottom of the screen a la CNN and Fox.... This tape could well have been scripted by Darth Vader Dick Cheney." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FJ30Aa01.html

* "British authorities have opened a new front in the widening investigation into allegations of bribery at Halliburton" http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1339743,00.html

* does a collective global holding-of-the-breath effect global warming?


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