crude

WART
* "22 people killed in the Mosul attack, 14 were U.S. service members, four were American civilians working as contractors on the base and three were members of the Iraqi security forces" 'parently there were 'only' 14 grunts killed in mosul... i thought that # would increase. btw - if there arent enuff troops even with iraqi domestic help, and we cant trust the domestic help, then what? d.r.a.f.t. cwly?

* safire:"In return for today's grudging concession of my tactical misjudgment, however, I claim this expectation: When and if we discover hidden supplies of germ weapons in Iraq or Syria, and as future confessions reveal the extent of connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam, the legion of war critics will forthrightly admit their certitude was misplaced." c(safire)ly? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/22/opinion/22safire.html

* btw - its hard to conceive that/how a suicide bomber can get into a mess tent to turn it into mess? maybe. it doesnt augur well.

* i wonder why the stills photographer (or anyone else) in the tent didnt have a vidcam. the pix are lovely tho.

* "Myers, appearing at the news conference with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, said the attack was "the responsibility of the insurgents, the same insurgents who attacked on 9/11. The way you prevent this is to win the war on extremism."" this makes me mad. really mad. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20775-2004Dec22.html

* "Marines announced the arrest of 44 suspects in the area Wednesday, bringing to 850 the number detained in the past five months; almost 600 of those suspects were subsequently imprisoned, the military said." maybe we are winning, after all...


* disgustingheadline: "Fighting On Is the Only Option, Americans Say"... " Now there was no choice but to fight on, and reports on opinion polls were only "aiding and abetting" the enemy by making opponents think the American will is weak." weak, or smart. cwly? parently not. when, then? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/22/national/22react.html?pagewanted=all&position=

* "...increasing violence in Iraq is just a sign of desperation by the nation's enemies... It tells me that they are worried that they are going to lose." right.

FUTUREWART
* " "Kim Jong-il seems to be losing control... There is a great deal of pressure coming from somewhere," a North Korea-based diplomat said. "We don't know whether it is internal or external, but something is going on."... In typically pugnacious style, North Korea denounced such speculation as part of a psychological warfare campaign by the US and its allies." http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,1378854,00.html

VOTE
* "Edie Emery, a spokeswoman for the National Election Pool and a CNN employee, said the exit poll data were still being analyzed and that the group's board would decide how to release a full report on the data early next year. "To release any information now would be incomplete," she said." (in response to conyers asking for the *raw* data) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041222/ap_on_re_us/election_poll_data

* heres a much better storehouse of votefraud stories than the one i gave yesterday http://www.votersunite.org/news.asp

CRUPTION
* fannie maes ceo and cfo have gone. thats 10bn fraud.

* yukos nationalisation complete



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