no evidence or plausible indication

* mccain on timmeh: "we may not respect syrias sovereignty"

* frank rich: " The Cruise-Holmes romance is proving less credible to Americans in 2005 than (welles's) Martian invasion did to those of 1938. A People magazine poll found that 62 percent deem the story a stunt. To tabloid devotees, the reasons for Mr. Cruise's credibility gap are the perennial unsubstantiated questions about his sexuality and his very public affiliation with a church, Scientology, literally founded by a science-fiction writer. But something bigger is going on here. The subversion of reality that Welles slyly introduced into modern American media in 1938 has reached its culmination and a jaded public is at last in open revolt." LINK
first, people stopped believing in the war, and now this! will it never end?

* "Armando on Dick Durbin: "The issue isn't whether or not we are the same as the Nazis, the issue is that we aren't different enough." LINK

* this is an odd story: " In a June 6 letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller, the Senate Judiciary Committee renewed a request for information about allegations that the FBI’s Riyadh office was “delinquent in pursuing thousands of leads” related to 9/11," LINK
if this is true, then why is it coming out now? havent we already looked into 911? nobody mentioned it the last time round?

* nyt headlnie: "Bush's Road Gets Rougher"
3rd para: "...he is dangerously close to a fiery wreck that could have lasting consequences for his standing and for the Republican Party." LINK

* dbrooks hangs frist, gently: "Sometimes in their quests to perform greater acts of service, people lose contact with their animating passion. And the irony is that the earlier Frist, the Tennessee Republican, the brilliant and passionate health care expert, is exactly the person the country could use." LINK

* "Halliburton to build new $30 mln Guantanamo jail" LINK
im sure they do it intentionally. just for fun.

* "The House of Representatives took a little- noticed but dangerous swipe at the power of the courts this week. It passed an amendment to a budget bill that would bar money from being spent to enforce a federal court ruling regarding the Ten Commandments. The vote threatens the judiciary's long-acknowledged position as the final arbiter of the Constitution. It is important that this amendment be removed before the bill becomes law." LINK
again, they use a religious issue to create precedent so that they can destroy the constitution. its a nice little formula. soon we'll be hearing why socialsecurity is contrary the 'dont steal' commandment. stealing from your children and all that.

* ""I have an excellent idea of where (Osama bin Laden) is," Goss told Time in an interview set to hit newsstands Monday.
But he added: "In the chain that you need to successfully wrap up the war on terror, we have some weak links. And I find that until we strengthen all the links, we're probably not going to be able to bring Mr bin Laden to justice."" LINK

* ""I think they're not quite in the last throes, but I think they are very close to it," Goss told Time magazine in an interview. The emergence of an Iraqi government shows the insurgents are "unwanted," he said." LINK

* "A key Foreign Office diplomat responsible for liaising with UN inspectors says today that claims the government made about Iraq's weapons programme were "totally implausible".
He tells the Guardian: "I'd read the intelligence on WMD for four and a half years, and there's no way that it could sustain the case that the government was presenting. All of my colleagues knew that, too"." LINK

* " (the egadmin's) own efforts to discredit the election at the eleventh hour highlight their growing concern that a new president in Iran may actually be someone with whom, as Margaret Thatcher first observed about incoming Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, the West might actually be able to do business." LINK

* "On March 7, 2003, ElBaradei told the Security Council:
"After three months of intrusive inspections, we have to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapon program in Iraq."
Twelve days later, Bush invaded Iraq."
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