cognitive diffidence

* faux are saying that jonk has made the ultimate electionkilling mistake by mentioning the alqaqaa thingy 'which is increasingly looking like a lie' - 'he
zigged when he should have zagged'

* "Problems in searching fingerprint databases have left the American military unable to check fully the identities of thousands of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, raising concerns that they might be releasing suspects prematurely, according to Pentagon officials and documents." please make it stop. please. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/27print.html?oref=login

* oreilly: 'the constitution demands equal protection - so once you open up marriage to gays, youve gotta give it polygamists as well'

* im not sure about bushs latest 'gays deserve unions' thing. what to make of it?

* the rest of the world hopes that its oice is also heard on tue

* "An uptick in airstrikes and other military moves point to an imminent showdown between U.S. forces and Sunni Muslim insurgents west of Baghdad... Although Fallujah leaders insist there are no more than a few foreign fighters in the city, Arab journalists who have visited say they heard non-Iraqi accents at some checkpoints." i hate the ap. im still not sure that they wont attack fallujah pretue.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20041028/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_showdown_ahead

* heres a pbs vid called 'rumsfleds war' - its sposed to be available online thurs http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/

* i love the repug line: 'if someone votes illegally, then its effectively the same as not allowing a legal voter to vote cos the vote gets neutralised. therefore we'll do what we can to block dems from voting' itd be funny but...

* powell: 'we tried in bilateral talks with nthkorea in 1998 and they went behind our back. thats why we need 6party talks'

* bout those 50 that zarq shot - dont i keep hearing that *everyone* has a gun in iraq? or did i write that already? i lost a big post :-(

* "A (white) man has been charged with attempting to acquire chemical weapons, explosives and weapons of mass destruction with the intent to attack government buildings." shhh http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2483672

* "US gave date of war to Britain five months before the invasion was launched, court papers reveal" http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=576429

* "When a supporter in Pennsylvania suggested to Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the vice presidential candidate, there might be riots after the vote, the senator's wife said: "Uh ... well ... not if we win.""

* "The media has remained largely silent on The Wall Street Journal's October 25 report that President George W. Bush's administration passed up several opportunities to attack and potentially kill terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before the start of the Iraq war." we had other priorities. http://mediamatters.org/items/200410270007

* what are we gonna tell the children? why didnt the german people do something???

* "Iraq has been a major focus of the presidential race, and a major military assault would have an unpredictable impact on the campaign in its final days." this noise seems to be increasing. i cant see how it helps them. unless they are retailiating for something big... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20041027/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp

* "That's why I call this the I-WANT-MY-MOMMY-ELECTION. Everything I read, everything I hear just makes me went to crawl under the bed and suck-my-thumb."" http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/archive.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2004/10/27/morris/index.html

* ftr - if i was an amcit id be voting for kerry. id have my reservations about him - but they are to do with him being too much of a hawk (if he wins and appoints armitage ill scream really really loud). but i wouldnt have to hold my nose to vote for him like many others. he actually really looks like president. and sensible. and he'll have a lot of apologising to do. but there are still many who are apparently concerned that he is a zigzagger and has a whole bunch of weaknesses. i dont buy into that for a minute. the idea that he is a lesser-evil tweedledee just doesnt seem right to me. he *could* even be a great president. if he wins, he's gonna need a whole lotta help and be really lucky just to be able to step back from the precipice. if he wins tho, the goodguys are gonna have to backup their good work - starting nov3 - and keep fightin the good fight - but i almost feel like jonk could actually be a reasonable leader of the cause. and hopefully he'll bring the troops home quick. but im not convinced. (excuse the phantasy)

as far as i can tell he made one statement that i dont get - and it is so incongruent that im just gonna have to assume it never happened - when he said he'd have gone to war given what we know now.

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