leaving Bush “looking weak,”

* bobparry: "Less than two months before invading Iraq, George W. Bush fretted that his war plans could be disrupted if United Nations weapons inspectors succeeded in gaining Saddam Hussein’s full cooperation, possibly leaving Bush “looking weak,” according to notes written by a secretary to British Prime Minister Tony Blair." (link)

* "Helping to ensure passage of the Iraqi Constititution, the Iraqi government has failed to put any voting stations in the Sunni cities of Haditha, Hit, Rawa, Qaim, Ana, Baghdadi and the villages around them." (link)

* " (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials who released a letter purporting to be from an al Qaeda leader to Iraq insurgency leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi this week said on Friday they could not account for a passage that has raised doubts about the document's authenticity... Zawahri appears near (the end of the letter) to urge the Iraq insurgent leader to send greetings to himself if visiting the Iraqi city of Falluja." (link)
lol. idiots. apart from the obvious, the other interesting thing here is that they are trying to paint zark in fallujah

* ""This would appear to be conclusive evidence that the DNI was mistaken, and that the letter was written to someone other than Zarqawi," Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists said on on Friday in his e-mail intelligence newsletter, "Secrecy News."" (link)
the FAS is usually pretty good - but thats one helluva dumb statement