* a while back, Miguel sent through a November article which noted that there is a Major Doug Dickerson at the Yokota airbase in Tokyo - he is the "374th Logistics Readiness Squadron’s acting commander" according to an article last week in Stars and Stripes (link) - it's probably not the same Doug Dickerson made famous by sibel. I don't know how many Major Doug Dickersons there are - google only seems to pick up the two references at Yokota, plus all the Sibel related links.
* "Fifty-two percent of adults said Bush's administration since 2001 has been a failure, down from 55 percent in October." (link)
how did americans get 3% points dumber in 4 months? i can't wait for Karl to quote these stats on tv.
* digby: "The (preznit) who is planning to run the mid-terms on his great success as a wartime president just facilitated the first elected Islamic terrorist government and delegitimized moderates throughout the region. That's quite an achievement... It isn't the first failure and it is going to be far from the last. You cannot successfully run the world on comic book slogans and third rate biblical homilies"
* mydd's poll has finished: "the poll is chock full of juicy results that we will release between now and Tuesday morning." (link)
* 'parently Blinky would 'approve' the iran/russia nuke-energy plan. i'll believe it when i see it - but that news is about a gazzillion times better than nuking them (link)
* "Charles Clarke, (British) Home Secretary, is facing an onslaught over the Government's anti-terror laws after figures showed nearly 36,000 people were stopped and searched under the emergency powers last year. The number of people stopped and searched each year has soared since the Act came into force in 2001, when 10,200 people were stopped. It rose to 33,800 in 2003-04." (link)
that is prior to the 7/7 bombing
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"it's probably not the same Doug Dickerson made famous by sibel."
Oh, well, the hunt for the Dickersons continues. Maybe Tokyo was too close to civilization and they were sent by the US military to Greenland or someplace even farther from where any Vanity Fair reporter might be able to get to them for an interview.
By the way, I just ran across an EXCELLENT article today in by Alan Bock (http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=8452). It feeds somewhat into your question of whether or not Al-Qaeda really exists. Although Bock clearly believes it does exists, he believes the same thing I do: that al Qaeda is convenient to keep around in order to help the Bush team to consolidate its powers.
Here is my favorite quote:"All these activities had the effect of building up the state without posing any more than trivial inconveniences – in some cases bolstering – the terrorists who pose the most concrete threat to the United States. Is it too fanciful to suggest that building the state rather than destroying or even seriously weakening al-Qaeda was the primary goal?"
Bock shares MY conspiracy theory on 9-11. I don't believe Bush Administration orchestrated or planned 9-11, but I believe that the Administration purposely drags its feet on fighting the real terrorists, because more attacks benefits their quest for more power.
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