* question: when did 'national unity government' enter the lexicon re iraq? just in the last month or so right? and it's become ubiquitous already - and i'm not sure why or how it happened. i dont think (so far as i know) that it actually has anything to do with events in iraq (maybe i'm mistaken). is it another frank luntz special? were previous attempts to form a govt in iraq something other than a 'national unity government'?
* booman:
"This is really going to happen. Karl Rove is going to be arrested and charged with obstruction of justice, and multiple counts of perjury and making false statements. Most likely, it will happen next Friday. I am anxious to see what Cliff May, William Bennett, Bob Woodward, and all the rest of Cheney's flacks have to say about that."* robert fisk:
" The Americans, my interlocutor suspected, are trying to provoke an Iraqi civil war so that Sunni Muslim insurgents spend their energies killing their Shia co-religionists rather than soldiers of the Western occupation forces. "I swear to you that we have very good information," my source says, finger stabbing the air in front of him. "One young Iraqi man told us that he was trained by the Americans as a policeman in Baghdad and he spent 70 per cent of his time learning to drive and 30 per cent in weapons training. They said to him: 'Come back in a week.' When he went back, they gave him a mobile phone and told him to drive into a crowded area near a mosque and phone them. He waited in the car but couldn't get the right mobile signal. So he got out of the car to where he received a better signal. Then his car blew up." "shrill
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