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PlameGate Bigger than Watergate?

Posted by: ST on October 9, 2003 at 5:52 pm » Comments Off

Mark Steyn takes a closer look: *snip*The notion that Ms Plame ‘fears for her life’ is somewhat undermined by the fact that her gabby hubby, currently on TV, radio and sympathetic websites 22 hours a day, is clearly having a ball, loving the attention and happy to yuk it up about how he and the [...]

 

The media ignored the real WMD news

Posted by: ST on October 9, 2003 at 5:40 pm » Comments Off

Jeff Jacoby nails it in today’s Boston Globe: It found, in a grisly echo of Dr. Mengele’s sadistic experiments, “a prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials . . . were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.” ISG inspectors interviewed one Iraqi scientist who had hidden [...]

 

“Questioning Patriotism” or not?

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 11:42 am » Comments Off

One of my favorite NRO writers, Jonah Goldberg, weighs in on the “They can’t question my patriotism!” crowd: *snip*Another phantasm of the liberal imagination is that they’re having their patriotism “questioned” at every turn by those nasty conservatives. I’m of two minds about this omnipresent assertion. On the one hand, I kind of want to [...]

 

The president is a poet?

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 10:30 am » Comments Off

LOL! A cute story this morning from CNN: *snip*At a gala Friday night kicking off this weekend’s third National Book Festival, Mrs. Bush celebrated the written word in an age of visual media, thanking American authors for their “tales of mystery, history and heroism.” “A good book is like an unreachable itch; you just can’t [...]

 

Somalia still a mess after “Blackhawk Down”

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 10:25 am » Comments Off

Sad. Here’s a snip from the story: The wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter lies tangled in a big prickly pear cactus. It’s the only remaining evidence of the fierce battle on a dusty side street a decade ago that killed 18 U.S. soldiers and spurred the exit of American peacekeepers. On Oct. 3, 1993, [...]

 

North Korea and Iraq? Yep.

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 10:02 am » Comments Off

Kim Jong-il pulled a fast one on Saddam just before the Iraq war. North Korea’s wily dictator, Kim Jong-il, bilked Saddam Hussein out of $10 million in an aborted deal to smuggle ballistic missile technology and other prohibited military equipment to Iraq shortly before the war, the chief U.S. weapons hunter said Friday. The no-honor-among-tyrants [...]

 

Another Success story in Iraq

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 9:53 am » Comments Off

Stories like this one need to be heard. When they realized that the newly trained local police force desperately needed walkie-talkies, the U.S. troops who patrol Iraq’s fourth-largest city didn’t wait for civilian bureaucrats to buy them, as have their Baghdad counterparts. The soldiers in Kirkuk found a dealer and ordered the radios with their [...]

 

Still think there’s not a liberal media?

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2003 at 9:47 am » Comments Off

Think again. This morning’s Philadelphia Daily News shows us exactly how “impartial” the media really is. Note this paragraph: Jackson, who challenged the football element of Limbaugh’s commentary but not the racist part during the show, caught heat in some media quarters and from friends for not being more forceful, the paper said. The “racist [...]

 

Blix Warns of the Dangers of “Spin”

Posted by: ST on October 3, 2003 at 11:59 pm » Comments Off

LOL! Yeah right – from the Spin Doctor himself! Hans Blix warned the US-led experts hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq yesterday to beware the dangers of “spin” when presenting their findings to their political masters anxious to justify the invasion of Iraq. “We don’t want another epidemic of spin,” the former chief [...]

 

David Kay’s Report – The Iraq War WAS Justified

Posted by: ST on October 3, 2003 at 11:36 pm » Comments Off

Some of the findings that aren’t getting much play in the press (wonder why?) We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002. The discovery of these deliberate concealment efforts have come about both through the [...]