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[Who Even Cares?] Look out, Rummy.: It seems that the administration is increasingly losing heart when it comes to the Iraq war, no longer able to stand up to the increasingly fierce barrage of dissent from the press, from members of the government, and from normal everyday Americans. And (come on now, history buffs) when a war suddenly starts becoming increasingly unpopular and people start pointing fingers at the administration for letting it happen, what always happens?
[Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic] Print this story: Donald Rumsfeld was installed in his position in the first place due to his reliability as a reliable member and advocate of the Project for the New American Century. Iraq was a stated priority even before Bush came into office after an election victory assured by the judicial tandem of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
[News from the web] Myers Rumsfeld Didnamp039t Intimidate Military: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld did not intimidate members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during planning of the Iraq war as some retired generals have charged, a former chairman said Sunday....
[MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics] MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered... : For all of the focus on domestic issues like immigration and the Medicare Part D program in recent weeks, it seems that the media have forgotten that we are still embroiled in a seemingly endless war in Iraq, not to mention an ongoing conflict in Afghanistan as well. And unfortunately, even as many ignore the situation on the ground in Iraq, a shockingly high number of Americans continue to lose their lives, as Qassim Abdul-Zahra reports for the AP.
[ Voxefx: My Brain Online:Music Gossip Celebrities Politics Sex Religion Urban HipHop] Maureen Dowd: The Rummy Mutiny: With his Pentagon advisers Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, Rummy set up a State Department within the Defense Department in 2002, to run diplomacy, and established their own C.I.A. within the Defense Department to ferret out "evidence" of a Saddam-Al Qaeda link, when the real C.I.A.
[The Huffington Post] Suzanne Nossel: 10 Lessons from the Corporate... : Since I spend my days in the corporate world, given the outcry over Donald Rumsfeld’s leadership at the Pentagon the analyses of commentators like David Brooks who tie the SecDef’s failings to the style he developed in business, I thought it might be fun to try to distill 10 lessons from the corporate world that apply to Iraq:
[Dailywarnews.blogspot.com] Today in Iraq: says Ali Hili, a 33-year-old gay Iraqi exile in London who, with some 30 other gay Iraqis who have fled to the United Kingdom, five months ago founded the Abu Nawas Group there to support persecuted gay Iraqis. (Abu Nawas was a great 8th century classical poet of Arab and Persian descent who is known throughout Middle East cultures, and is famous for his poems in praise of same-sex love.) Said Hili, “We believe that the Badr Corps is receiving advice from Iran on how to target gay people.” In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been carrying out a lethal anti-gay pogrom against Iranian gays, notably through entrapment by Internet -- and this tactic has recently begun to be used by the Badr Corps in Iraq to identify and hunt down Iraqi gays.
[Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited: News blog: A pair of nesting crows outside the Guardian office has caused great excitement. Now we'd like to hear what the wildlife's doing where you are.
[Cnn.com] CNN.com - Anderson Cooper 360° Blog: ABOUT THE BLOGA behind the scenes look at "Anderson Cooper 360°" and the stories it covers, written by Anderson Cooper and the show's correspondents and producers.
[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: The Saudi-backed London daily al-Hayat [Life] [Ar.] argues that the visit (demarche would be more like it) of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and her British counterpart Jack Straw to Baghdad is a (succssful) attempt to break up the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance bloc in parliament and to sideline Ibrahim Jaafari. It reports that she assured Jaafari that he is a fine politician, but just isn't up to heading a government of national unity that requires gaining the trust of a wide cross-section of Iraqis.
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