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WAR STUFF
* "If Osama makes it to May 21, he will have survived the self-declared world's only superpower in a presidentially-declared war longer than Tojo, Hitler, and Mussolini combined." LINK

* "Iraqi army and police units are deserting their posts after the recent escalation in insurgent attacks, according to reports from around the country yesterday." LINK

* "A prominent Labour politician will announce today that he is defecting to the Liberal Democrats in protest at Tony Blair's "lies" over Iraq... He says: "I'm renouncing Tony Blair, the Devil, New Labour and all their works. I don't do this lightly... Among the MPs there are 150 who loathe him and another 50 who have grave doubts about him and another 200 who love him. They are sometimes called the Clones or the Stepford Wives" " LINK

* jim lehrer did a big segment on venezuela called "america's nemesis". fuck jim lehrer

* "The United States invited two Italians -- a diplomat and a military officer -- to sit on the (sgrena) investigative committee. Italian newspapers reported yesterday that the two are refusing to sign the report because the U.S. investigators have cleared the soldiers of criminal wrongdoing." LINK

* "(sgrena) said the Americans had paid no attention to her testimony or that of the other survivor, an Italian secret service major who had been driving, even though she and the major had not discussed the incident with each other.
"Obviously our two testimonies given to the American commission were useless," she wrote. "Or will I be charged with perjury."" LINK

* ""As matters now stand, the WMD investigation has gone as far as feasible."
In 92 pages posted online Monday evening, Duelfer provides a final look at an investigation that occupied over 1,000 military and civilian translators, weapons specialists and other experts at its peak." LINK
lol. they are simultaneously wasting money on 'investigations' as to what the CIA got is so wrong, *AND* still wasting money on 'looking' for WMD. and just to prove how stupid they are, the report says "there is no purpose in keeping many of the detainees who are in custody because of their knowledge on Iraq's weapons" but we shouldnt let them go becuase they might get employed by someone who wants to develop WMD - which reminds me of the gitmo non-terrorists that 'we' cant let go, because they might become terrorists.

* " Half of all Americans, exactly 50%, now say the Bush administration deliberately misled Americans about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Gallup Organization reported this morning... In May 2003, 31% said the administration deliberately misled Americans." LINK
great - so 30% of people realised/knew it immediately, and it only took another 2 years to get another 20%. what information has come up in the last 12 months? not much. therefore, if the media wasnt so disgusting, this should have been know by, lets say 100% of the people, before the election... grrrrrrr. maybe the bolton hearing will help the penny drop for the dumbest 50%. perhaps if we draw a little diagram for them.

* " U.S. forces in Iraq believe they just missed capturing most-wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a February raid... U.S. troops found Zarqawi's computer...
NBC, quoting U.S. military sources, reported Tuesday that among the items seized with the laptop were several small plug-in hard drives. Numerous pictures of Zarqawi were found in the computer's "My Pictures" file, the network said." LINK
is that the funniest thing you have read in a while? i literally choked as i read it.
the rest of the article is quite funny too:
"Officials believe Zarqawi was in the fleeing truck, but when U.S. teams pulled the vehicle over several miles later, he was not inside, ABC reported. The official told the network that Zarqawi apparently jumped out of the vehicle when it passed beneath an overpass and hid there before escaping." how do they keep a straight face?

* syria completed the pull out from lebanon today. ten bux sez we'll shortly start hearing about the sercretservice thugs that didnt leave...