cannonfire

* joe cannon weighs in on the weldon/atta retreat: "The administration could not afford to have the tale of Atta's identification officially confirmed. Doing so would force the official story into rewrite -- and the rewritten tale might prove highly embarrassing to Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff."

* cannon: "Under the Shah, Iran was a massive (MASSIVE) producer of opium, and also provided a huge consumer market. The mullahs shut down the dope trade. No-one who knows how the world really works will have any doubt that this trade will resume in full force if America succeeds in dislodging the current Iranian regime. Lots of money to be made there."
hmm - interesting theory - although i'm not sure how that works in practice. my understanding is that we arent short of heroin production capacity, and the consumption market there cant be that big, given the gdp per capita. in any case, read the rest - he reckons armitage is a dope-pusher