suspected strafe house

* remember the good ole / scary days of the preinvasion peacemarches when the media (nyt?) wrote 'there are now two global superpowers - america and world opinion'

* theres only sposed to be 15m more voters than 2000 :-(

* remarkably, the conventionalwisdom nmber of iraqi deaths is still 'more than 10,000' - that number goes way back when - and there were another 210 killed this last week (and that number only refers to 'civilians' anyway.) as far as i can tell, the number was 40k at leaset 6 months ago.

* jons is on 60mins on sun http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/21/60minutes/main650690.shtml

* if 43 wins in a manner that looks legitimate, the rest of the world will switch from hating the wadmin to hating americans.

* "A new national poll by the Associated Press shows the race a statistical tie – 49 percent for the Kerry and 46 for the president." make it stop. pleeease. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/08/politics/main641817.shtml

* "According to data assembled by the military, about 80 percent of the violent attacks are criminal in nature - kidnappings for ransom or hijackings of convoys - with no political motivation. Of the other 20 percent, which include the most violent attacks on Iraqi security forces, the American military and international organizations, about four-fifths are attributed to domestic insurgents rather than to foreign terrorists." these numbers are probably meaningless - but to the extent its true, only 4% of attacks are from foreigners.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/international/middleeast/22insurgents.html?ei=5094&en=e40ae916b3f0b5bd&hp=&ex=1098504000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=all&position=

* it looks like jimbunnings has lost his marbles (as an aside "Let me explain something: I don't watch the national news, and I don't read the paper. I haven't done that for the last six weeks. I watch Fox News to get my information.") http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/10/22ky/A1-senate1022-8036.html

* " There are only two issues on which even a majority of Bush supporters know Bush's actual position. As the PIPA report blandly puts it, "Apparently in the absence of evidence to the contrary, Bush supporters assume Bush feels as they do."" http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_10/004974.php

* "Powell left here for a three-nation tour of north Asia focused on resolving the North Korean nuclear deadlock, China and Taiwan and the presence of US troops in Japan and South Korea." nice time to go on a 5 (?) day trip.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/113029/1/.html

* newsweeks bcci article is back up http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6262620/site/newsweek/

* ap helpfully tells us in a headline "No sign of bin Laden in border region"
well where is he ap? in iran? sanfrancisco? http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Pakistan%20Bin%20Laden

* " As recently as January 2004, a top Defense Department official (feith) misrepresented to Congress the view of American intelligence agencies about the relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda, according to a new report by a Senate Democrat." wot does feith have to do to get sacked?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/politics/22intel.html

* this story is getting some new attention "NBC report last spring—never effectively rebutted by the White House—that revealed the most Orwellian face of the administration imaginable: that "before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out" the terrorist operations of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but didn't because it "feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam."" http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0442/perlstein.php

* "The U.S. military lacks sufficient troops for post-combat ``stability and reconstruction'' operations, and should consider adding ``significant'' numbers, a review by the Pentagon's Defense Science Board found." http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=ao.Pl.UOlnPQ&refer=top_world_news





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