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* "A crisis of confidence has broken out between the Pentagon and the Israeli Defense Ministry in the wake of U.S. complaints about Israeli deviations from weapons purchasing and sales rules and an Israeli report to the U.S. about a weapons sale to China."
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/001493.html

* "The possibility that the mar11 bombings were the work of al Qaeda exploded the absurd argument that we must fight them over there so we don't need to fight them here." of course. i missed that. der.
http://warincontext.org/2004_12_12_archive.html#110303489528787743

* cute: scooter libby was smarc rich's legal counsel for 17 years.

* "If Rice picks a neoconservative as her deputy, Washington insiders predict business as usual: a hard-nosed foreign policy with President Bush continuing to wage the war on terrorism on his own terms. Conservatives would hail a hawkish appointee as a person who "recognizes that we are living in a post-Sept. 11 world," while liberals would rant about "four more wars."... Bolton is believed to be favored by Vice President Dick Cheney... Kanter would be welcomed by many at the State Department, but Cheney is rumored to oppose him... Rice is said to be closer to Elliott Abrams than any of the other candidates." dear oh dear. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-deputy12dec12,0,3349600.story?coll=la-home-nation

* a nice overview of drkelly's journey to the other side. the amazing thing, of course, about this story is the coverup. think abuot the mechanics of who was necessarily involved, and ponder what other coverups might be possible. http://wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/kell-d16.shtml

* wheres eminiem? there was a time when i thought he was gonna change the world.

* this week i learnt what a gurney is. what a story that one was.

* hmm - blitzer used to work at the jerusalem post. thats a hollinger property from memri (sic) http://justworldnews.org/archives/001033.html
- btw - the link discusses the scowcroft/zbig appearance on blitzer which was quite interesting. scowcroft is oft referred to as a 'realist' - which says something about him, and a lot more about everyone else. (separately, Kanter is from the same skool - he wont be getting 'boltons' job)

* btw - some ketih vids here http://ils-to.us/GinstArs/LisaRein/msnbc/dec04temp/

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