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[Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] Could it be because he's incompetent?

 [Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)] Memo To The Pentagon: The Press Isn't Your Friend Or, Alternately, The WAPO's Hit Piece On Iraqi Military Training: But they are willing to take a small part of a decision out of context and then accuse a judge they don't like of extreme views "out of the mainstream." Such dishonesty is disheartening, but not unprecedented in our nation's history. If we truly had a disinterested press, it would be their job to throw some light on what these judges have actually written instead of just pasting in opposing quotes like the debate was some tennis match with no way of finding out the essence of what these judges have argued.

[Billmon] Saddam's Song: A few months back I argued that the Bush administration ultimately would have no policy option in Iraq but to back the Shi'a sectarian coalition that won last January's election -- even if that alienated both collaboration-minded Sunnis and the Kurdish parties and allowed Iran to expand its sphere of influence in the country. Trying to play the different factions off against each other -- the traditional divide-and-conquer strategy of old-fashioned colonialism -- is merely accelerating the drift to fragmentation and communal conflict, without giving any single faction the strength to hold the country together.

[Preemptive Karma] Peachy keen, Jellybean: "I know the party line. You know, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Army, five-star generals, four-star generals, President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld: The Iraqis will be ready in whatever time period," said 1st Lt. Kenrick Cato, 34, of Long Island, N.Y., the executive officer of McGovern's company, who sold his share in a database firm to join the military full time after the Sept.

 [Oliver Willis | Like Kryptonite To Stupid] Just A Mess: Joseph J. Taluto, commander of the 42nd Infantry Division, which oversees an area of north-central Iraq that includes Baiji and is the size of West Virginia, called the Iraqi forces "improved and improving." He acknowledged that the Iraqis suffered from a lack of equipment and manpower but predicted that, at least in his area of operation, the U.S. military would meet its goal of having battalion-level units operating independently by the fall.

 [Global-growth.blogspot.com] Global Growth Org | Blog: February 2004: Gordon Brown hosted the "Making Globalisation Work for All" conference at the Treasury in London. Bono spoke via video-link, Jim Wolfensohn from the World Bank spoke, President Lula from Brazil pleaded for a "New World Social Contract" but concluded that "the greatest contribution we can make today to help overcome hunger will be to eliminate subsidies to agriculture in rich countries." Gordon Brown also echoed the same theme "900 million farmers in poor countries struggle to survive each day on less than $1 while rich countries spend $900 million each day subsidising agriculture - more on agricultural subsidies than the total income of sub-Saharan Africa - Margaret Beckett, Patricia Hewitt and I are convinced we must do more - for world trade and for developing countries - to urgently tackle the waste of the Common Agricultural Policy, the scandal of agricultural protectionism around the world....So we, supporters of free trade, agree that we must do more..."

[Drizzten.com] Magnifisyncopathological: Response to Cato the Youngest: The protesters were among 400 to 500 who began demonstrating at Taos Plaza and marched along U.S. 64 to two Rumsfeld properties at El Prado, a couple of miles northwest of Taos, Martinez said.

 [Jerome-a-paris.dailykos.com] Daily Kos: Three hours later, a second set of Marines at an observation post reported receiving fire from vehicles matching the description of the convoy involved in the earlier incident, Lapan said.The wingers want to romantisize these contractors mercenaries, but they are a hinderance to the war effort. The military hates them since they generate ill will from the Iraqi populace.

 [Buckeyeinstitute.org] Buckeye Institute Blog: 01/30/2005 - 02/05/2005 - The Buckeye ...: Income Tax Superintendent Linda Stubbs will be suspended for five days without pay for including "unprofessionally worded" instructions with tax forms sent to residents in mid-January, city officials said Thursday.

[Justinlogan.com] JustinLogan.com: Creeping Boltonism: Cato Blog Mafia. Adrienne Aldredge; Brink Lindsey; Gene Healy; Jeremy Lott ... To prevent escalation, Gardiner said, we would need to take out the No-Dong ...

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