first they came for the incubators

WAR STUFF
* "Throughout last week, Washington continued to aggravate the situation. On Thursday Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defence Intelligence Agency told a Senate Committee that North Korea now had the ability to arm missiles with nuclear weapons—again without any evidence. While the Pentagon played down the claim, the statement had the desired effect—a flurry of media headlines warning that Pyongyang was able hit the US with nuclear-tipped missiles... In the New York Times on May 1, Graham Allison, a nuclear analyst at Harvard, commented: “The administration wants to use the (NPT) meeting to point to Iran and North Korea, and much of the rest of the world wants to use it to say that the Bush administration has flagrantly flouted its own responsibilities.”" LINK

* "and what is with all these al-qaeda guys getting arrested in pakistan? turns out iraq had no wmds and the terrorists were all in pakistan. so why didn't we invade pakistan?" LINK

* "At least nine American servicemen were killed in weekend attacks." LINK

* theres a 50min interview with raymcgovern here about the memo, and the war and neocons and all that. go listen. LINK

* "The U.S. military is examining reports that insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi was present last week at a hospital in Anbar province and the possibility that he may be ill or wounded" LINK
im soooo sick of this farking nonsense. perhaps he was getting phantom limb pain or some such.

* "In making this (Yalta) argument the president joins a rich tradition of maniacs who believe that at the end of World War II we should have joined with the defeated remainder of the German army and fought our way through Eastern Europe to the border of Russia and, in all likelihood, on to Moscow to overthrow the Soviet Union itself -- certainly not a difficult proposition considering what an insubstantial land Army the Soviet Union had at the time." LINK

* "But here's what I'm curious about: why did Bush mention Yalta at all? For most people alive today this is long dead history, but Bush's speechwriters are well aware that "Yalta" was once a codeword extraordinaire among a certain segment of the population. In fact, it was perhaps the single biggest bugaboo of the wingnut right in the late 40s and 50s, right up there with Alger Hiss and Joe McCarthy's list of communists in the State Department.
But most of those people are dead. So who was the reference aimed at? Not just the Latvians, that's for sure. Bush is a master of using codewords in his speeches, and inserting Yalta into this speech wasn't a casual decision. It was there for someone. Who?" LINK

* NYSun: " A secret, parallel military program to produce nuclear weapons may be behind Iran's announcement yesterday that it will break its agreement to suspend uranium enrichment... the political arm of the terrorist group the Mujahedin-e Khalq, known as the National Council for Resistance in Iran, has provided intelligence to America of a secret Iranian program within the past six months." LINK
havent we seen this movie before? who is gonna give the speech at the UN? i wonder if someone will leak TheMemo *before* we go to war this time...

* meanwhile, conyers is still trying get some media about the previous memo. "I continue in my quest to bring the secret deal agreed to by Bush and Blair to go to war in Iraq before they bothered to ask for permission." here and here - he and Slaughter held a webchat on it here