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WAR
* "Hans Blix is once again speaking out on the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. He told the Swedish News Agency that he now believes oil was one of the reasons for the invasion." LINK

* "The intelligence officials who produced Tony Blair's Iraq weapons dossier - the justification for war - have admitted that some of the main claims made in it were untrue." LINK
the dossier was perhaps one of the funniest things about the war...

* "But with the existence of a mole inside al Qaeda increasingly likely, then there is a much more serious, insidious and sinister possibility: That George W. Bush knew at least a month before the attacks that they were going to occur, and chose to do nothing to stop them." LINK
cannonfire has more. xymphora has more im not sure what to make of any of it... more to come, one presumes...

* sgrena is gonna be on hardtalk on monday. hoepfully they'll put the vid up there if u miss it. (i cant work out their policy re vids)

* "This is just proof that the system works. During the 2004 campaign, Lockheed handed out $1.7 million to members of Congress. For that pittance, it will sell hundreds of planes, each of which go for $30 million to $40 million—that's the economy model" LINK

* " Chanting "Death to America!" and burning effigies of President Bush and Saddam Hussein, tens of thousands of Iraqis flooded central Baghdad on Saturday in what police called the largest anti-American protest since the fall of Baghdad exactly two years ago... Some estimates put the number of protesters at 300,000." LINK

* meanwhile, cnn is headlining with the story that there were 'a combined 20,000 people protesting over two days' in an anti-japan march

* "While the Americans celebrated Kyrgyzstan's "dawn of a better, democratic future" (Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice), a confidante of Putin had a different take. Referring to Kyrgyzstan's traditional role as a hub for drug trafficking and the looting in the capital's streets, he painted a grim picture: This, he said, was a revolution that "tastes like opium and shows the color of the darkest night."" LINK