only 7 killing days till xmas

* AP: "Iraq Insurgents Kill 3 Foreigners in Mosul" - "Insurgents killed at least three foreigners on Friday in Mosul" http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20041217/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

* Reuters: " 'Foreigners' Killed in Attack in Iraq's Mosul" - "killing three men who appeared to be three foreigners"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20041217/ts_nm/iraq_dc

* "Foreign secretary Jack Straw said today that the law lords were "simply wrong" to imply that terror suspects were being arbitrarily held without charge." http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1376159,00.html

* "The road to Damascus is the key node in the Bush/neo-con roadmap for a new Middle East. Some may think the road starts in Baghdad. Wrong. It starts, simultaneously, in Washington, Jerusalem and Beirut. And neo-con think-tanks, the Christian Right and ultra right-wing Zionists are busy mapping it. A key player to watch is neo-con David Wurmser, who has been a member of Cheney's staff since September 2003 and who has for years called for a strike against Syria. Bush and the neo-cons must implicate Syria by all means available" http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FL17Ak01.html

* " In all, according to recent Pentagon data, one million Americans have been deployed to either the Iraqi or Afghan wars, one out of every three of them more than once" http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2004/12/12_580.html

* some goodish vid here from the conyers meeting in ohio - cobb/jackson
http://www.votecobb.org/video/

* btw - i wasnt kidding when i said the jone got an electoral vote. it didnt seem to get much attention

* "Former Secretary of State Ralph Munro, a key supporter of Republican Dino Rossi during the contentious recounts in Washington's race for governor, says it may be time to toss out all of the votes and do the election over." http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=recount17m&date=20041217&query=voting+recount

* "The law might have gone ignored, but justice, by darn, very likely was done: State District Judge Carol Vigil yesterday came down in favor of the state Canvassing Board against minor-party activists seeking a recount of New Mexico's presidential election... Barring the exposure of some enormous fraud that a recount wouldn't find anyway, President Bush won New Mexico fair and square -- by about 6,000 votes... For all that, the tiny parties have a point: State law sets the price for a recount -- and the $114,000 they had posted complies with the law... Even if faults are found, that's not the purpose of a recount; accurate results are the aim. But even if, as we'd guess, the recount changes a few figures, the likelihood of Bush losing our state is small -- and even if he did, he'd still win the electoral vote, which is all that counts in our Constitution's strange interpretation of democracy." go figger. http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/8027.html

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