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* here's fisks latest article on haririkiri - he doesnt clear up anything - but interesting as always LINK

* "Will Paul Wolfowitz steer the World Bank towards aiding Venezuela? Not so long as Hugo Chavez is in power." LINK

* piers morgan was on hardtalk(xtra). remember those faux pix? straight after abug? we still dont know where they came from... he told a story that clniton was coming to london for the irish peace deal thingy and piers asked alistaircampbell if he could get clinton to write an op-ed for the Mirror. the msg came back that clinton was too bizzy, but that he'd put his name to something if the Mirror could write it. piers got it written and then gave it to clinton to put his name on it, and then the next day the murdoch papers front-paged the article as their exclusive. lol. piers yelled at campbell who tried defending himself one way or another and eventually blurted out "i did it for peace!" . sweet.

* everyones agog about Volokh’s 'bloodlust is yummy' piece - just cos he is a prof of constitutional law or something. he always seemed like a bit of a freak to me. LINK

* the afghan elections slated for may have been postponed for 'technical' reasons. imagine if they tried to pull that in lebanon... imagine if assad 'pre-announced' it

* "No voice speaks more loudly the anthem of this Cabal than one of its founding fathers, Charles Krauthammer, whose two page advertising spread in Time this month, "Three Cheers for the Bush Doctrine," rouses the troops in glowing accolades to celebrate Bush's determination and resolve to carry forward, despite world opinion, to bring freedom and liberty to the people of the Arab world. "It took this marriage of power, will and principle to produce the astonishing developments in the Middle East today," Krauthammer stammers in ecstatic admiration of the "Bush Doctrine"" LINK
go read it.

* " As Newsweek reported in its Jan. 31 edition: "Now every major poll shows an ever-larger majority of Iraqis want the Americans to leave." Yet we hear that U.S. troops must stay for the good of the Iraqi people -- even though most of those people clearly want U.S. troops to leave. (Are we supposed to believe that Americans know better than Iraqis whether American troops should stay in Iraq?)" LINK