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[Bloggernews.net] Bush Concerned About Efforts to Derail Progress in Iraq: A written statement from the U.S. military command in Iraq said the alleged events of that day are absolutely inexcusable and unnacceptable. It said military investigators will fully pursue all the facts in a vigorous and open process.
[Truthout.org] truthout || News & Politics Blog: No one would have mentioned his name at all if President George W. Bush hadn't ... week to derail and distract any discussion of an exit strategy from Iraq. ...
[Iraquna.blogspot.com] Iraqi Letters: Invasion of Iraq: Undeclared Motives - Introduction: Minutes from a summer 2002 meeting involving British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveal that the Bush administration was ''fixing" the intelligence to justify invading Iraq. US intelligence used to justify the war demonstrates repeatedly the truth of the meeting minutes -- evidence was thin and needed fixing.
[Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Uprising in Iraq could ...: Edward Kennedy, his fellow Democratic senator from Massachusetts, described Iraq as "George Bush's Vietnam". Paul Bremer, the US governor in Iraq, said: "There is nothing in common with Vietnam." But Republican senator John McCain said Mr Bush should avoid the mistakes of the Vietnam war: "We have to tell the American people that we are in this for the long haul.
[Washingtonpost.com] The Reviews Are In: But when Tenet insisted in his personal meetings with the president that there was no connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq, Cheney and Rumsfeld initiated a secret program to re-examine the evidence and marginalize the agency and Tenet. Through interviews with DoD staffers who sifted through mountains of raw intelligence, Frontline tells the story of how questionable intelligence was 'stovepiped' to the vice president and presented to the public.
[The Huffington Post] Zack Exley: How can we get the Dems to snap into... : As if the deficit, the war in Iraq, our porous borders, the total absence of a long range energy plan, incomprehensible government waste, fraud, lack of accountability, foreign policies based on wishful thinking,an open hackable voting system, indefensible ports, or becoming a lapdog to China weren't enough to put an absolute beatdown on these quislings.
[Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] Worse than the Court of Selim the Sot: Meet the New Media Strategy: A Visit From the Ambassador: Deb Riechmann writes for the Associated Press about the Oval Office visit by Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad.
[Geoffrey GM's Beyond Wallacia] A hidden history of Usama bin Laden - the... : The UN Ambassador of the anti-bin Laden, anti-Taliban, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan reported last year that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, in alliance with the Taliban and Usama Bin Laden, subjected the Afghan people to persecution by terrorists from "South-East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East."
[A Big Stick and a Small Carrot] The Harsh Reality: Before parliamentary elections last December, American officials worked hard to coax Sunni Arab politicians to participate, in the hope that political engagement would help dissipate the Sunni-led insurgency. But the Sunni Arab boycott of Parliament just weeks after the government began to operate has underscored the fragility of the ethnic and sectarian power-sharing agreement.This isn't good.
[The Agonist | thoughtful, global, timely] Militant Breastfeeders: The UK mission in Afghanistan is in danger of failing because of "misguided" support for American military and drug-eradication policies, an international think-tank has claimed. nstead of taking part in the reconstruction of the country shattered by decades of war, British forces find themselves "at war" with a resurgent
[The Hotline's Blogometer] 6/27: Where's The Old Kos?: Fellow lefty This Modern World is no fan of the "Ken Starr of the blogosphere" TNR's Jason Zengerle but also feels that Markos isn't the real target: "It's not just Markos and Jerome Armstrong being dragged through the mud, it's every liberal blogger (especially those in the Advertising Liberally network). .Every liberal blogger has been besmirched by these unsupported insinuations and we've got every right to be p****d.
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