rumsfeld on a logic/shame diet

* btw - that CBS job approval number for Blinky is 35% - *but* it also includes a really high 8% "unsure" - i'd have to guess that those 8% are ex-blinky fans who cant quite bring themselves to say "he's a complete fucking moron" - not yet anyway - so expect that number to get a lot worse. (link)

* lehrer finally does another piece on traitorgate - peripherally of course - "the media angle" - its incredible how they have been able to ignore this issue. i think ive only seen one other segment - and that was "turmoil at the nyt"!
ken tomlinson must be proud.

* rumsfeld said that the gitmo hunger-strikers are on a diet. (link)

* juancole:

"Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Tuesday before the United Nations: "I categorically refuse the use of Iraqi soil to launch a military strike against Syria or any other Arab country . . . "But at the end of the day my ability to confront the US military is limited and I cannot impose on them my will."

So let's get this straight. The president of Iraq elected six months after the US "turned over sovereignty" on June 28, 2004 is saying before the United Nations that George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld decide whether his country can be used as a base to attack other countries, and he is unable to influence such decisions-- even though he categorically rejects any such action.... After all, no country is a "democracy" where the military calls the shots, overruling the civilian president-- how much less so if it is a foreign military! "