* Steve Soto: "Now that the Bush Administration has decided to ram the Dubai ports deal through without regard for what Congress thinks, I suppose it is a tad bit inconvenient to point out that Dubai's commitment to tight port security is, ah, a little lax:
Reader Joe Musco points us to the following testimony just last year in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, in which our own Chief of Staff to the US Mission to the United Nations, told Congress that the UAE was participating in the ferrying of prohibited goods to and from Saddam Hussein in violation of the UN sanctions."
ummmm. who wasnt?
* Froomkin:
"Bill Sammon writes in the Washington Examiner with some of the highlights from his new book about Bush and the 2004 campaign.(since when does Preznit Blinky talk in 3rd person?)
"President Bush now says his 2004 victory over Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who is mulling a comeback in 2008, was inadvertently (ed: *cough*) aided by al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. [snip]
"For the first time, the president says he was helped by bin Laden, who put out a videotaped diatribe against Bush the Friday before the 2004 election.
"Bush said there were 'enormous amounts of discussion' inside his campaign about the 15-minute tape, which he called 'an interesting entry by our enemy' into the presidential race...
" 'I thought it was going to help,' he decided. 'I thought it would help remind people that if bin Laden doesn't want Bush to be the president, something must be right with Bush.' ""
btw - osama must be one stupid criminal mastermind. everyone except osama realised that this would help Blinky. or maybe they just need each other...
"Even the mainstream media fretted about the tape's potential to help Bush. Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite told CNN that White House strategist Karl Rove "probably set up bin Laden to this thing.""go read Sammon's piece for some exquisite hackery
14 comments:
'since when does Preznit Blinky talk in 3rd person?'
good question--i thought the same last night when i read this. the whole thing stinks...
gday rimone - thanks for dropping by
the sammon book does indeed smell - we need to make sure that we read it through a spin prism
:-) i actually come by every day (sometimes more than once) but attempt to control myself and play nice (which means i shut myself up). however, my outrage quotient hit like 100+ this morning. i used to love to drink my coffee and read the news every morning and thanks to the last five years, i don't anymore. and yes, you're right about how we read the sammon book. *stifled cursing*
*breathe*
*let go*
*breathe*
vent away - you are amongst friends :-)
i was in london too before i moved here
blair is an ass
good one oldschool. i wasn't aware of that article.
if OBL was alive, he could put out competing tapes denying that he was on the military's tapes...
oldschool: i thought it was strange how the CIA validated the last bin Laden tape w/i 24 hours.
lukery: i'm actually in Bristol (but i'm American--spent my entire life in NYC before i left right after 9/11).
rimone - the 'validation' thing is bullshit
everytime there is a zarqawi tape they dont even bother following it up - they just plant the idea that 'someone at cnn thinks it sounds like the previous 'zarqawi' tape'
it'd be funny if... *stifle*...
should've put 'validated' in quotes.
but yeah, these tapes or whatever are like gold for them. and yes, wouldn't it be funny if...
Just on the unlikely chance that oldschool and rimone haven't seen these sources:
The original OBL 'confession' video is a verifiable FAKE. (link) (link)
Keith Olbermann did a study of US (terror alerts) and their convenient timing.
Cheers.
and there's this ;-)
thank you for reminding me, damien and lukery. about Keith Olbermann, i think he's one of our last best hopes (i can't access his programme from here but i read about his work on the internets).
i dont get olbermann either - but C&l sometimes has some highlights
i dont think i'll ever forgive him for going on holidays in nov 04 when he had the story of a lifetime and no-one else was touching it.
i never heard about that (and if i did, i'd long forgotten). after a quick Google, you're talking about the 'voting irregularities' thing?
yeah - that's it.
he was the only one covering the story, and he was our last great hope - and then he went on holidays...
i don't doubt that he had holidays planned - but he was inches away from turning himself into a 'woodstein'
crooks and liars will have some of his coverage if you go back to that time
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