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  IntoxiNation: 0 commentsFormer US general says Rumsfeld should quit over Iraq (via Cosmos)

  Anything They Say: When military leaders of the US armed forces, especially those formerly in command of Middle East forces, come forth and declare Iraq to be the disaster reasonable minds know it to be, there is always cause for celebration. Such a moment occurred this morning on (via Cosmos)

 [The Huffington Post] Rachel Sklar: Russert Watch: Riding the Straight... : McCAIN'S DAMAGE CONTROL FOR BUSH: Neo-hardballing Tim cites the big-time Administration screw-ups in Iraq (WMDS/greeted as liberators/insurgency losing steam) and asks McCain "would it help if the President admitted he was wrong?" Said McCain: "I think the President has been doing that." Excuse me? Then he says, that "mistakes are made in every war" to which Tim, well-prepped, cites Thomas Friedman who calls the administration "criminally negligent" (which is a pretty high standard of culpability, btw).

 [The Hotline's Blogometer] 3/29: Full Plate: The real shocker, however, was the collapse of Likud under Bibi Netanyahu, who wrested control of the party from Sharon: it will apparently be the fifth-ranking party in the next Knesset." The Politiburo Diktat sees the results as a positive, and tries to count seats Kadima can use to form a coalition: "If these results hold up, Kadima should be able to begin its unilateral withdrawal." AMERICAblog isn't so optimistic: "Passing anything is not going to be easy." Peaktalk agrees and sees trouble ahead for the coalition gov't: "Israel needs a broad national consensus to give effect to Ariel Sharon's vision and while Ehud Olmert can probably make things work, there will always be a risk that such a fragile coalition may fall apart at a critical juncture." Hugh Hewitt sees a short-lived coalition.

 [CorrenteWire] Is Reality Breaking Through Chris Matthews'... : as I pointed out, the way people pay attention to the news, which is not as much as you and I do, it was easy for Americans to infer that he meant… and by the way they did these polls, as you well know, that the majority of the American people actually thought that the people that flew the planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and that field in Pennsylvania actually came from Iraq.

 [Newsie8200's Penndit] Media News Monday 3/27/06: Bush, the media, and... : Instead, they are looking at alternatives such as branded entertainment within TV programs (61 percent), TV program sponsorships (55 percent), interactive advertising during TV programs (48 percent), online video ads (45 percent) and product placement (44 percent). Additionally, 80 percent will spend more of their advertising budgets on Web advertising and 68 percent are looking into search engine marketing." Advertisers who attended the forum were advised to pay greater attention to the increase in DVR penetration, which was ascribed to the rapid deployment of set-top boxes by cable and satellite companies.

 [The Hotline's Blogometer] 3/24: Roads? Where We're Going, We Don't Need... : A week after the New York Times erred in identifying the wrong man as the hooded detainee in the infamous Abu Ghraib photo (see 3/15 Blogometer), as of 3/23, New York Times' Confessore is re-reporting a 3/8 story on a Brooklyn woman who claimed to be a Katrina victim, but was not. She now faces charges of fraud.

 [HolyCoast.com] Is Iraq Really Vietnam?: Hugh Hewitt: Mark Steyn, a mil-blogger in Iraq, in Mosul, actually, named Buck Sargeant, sent me an e-amil today, which includes in part, some slams at Michael Ware and other journalists, and he says soldiers really do know what's going on, and he concludes by saying the media wants us to lose, and they're doing their damnedest to see it happen. But I have faith in the American people that they're too smart to fall for that trick twice.

[Brendan Nyhan] Conason on Domenech's phony quote: [B]y Thursday bloggers had more than ideological reasons to oppose the Post's move, as Atrios, Daily Kos and other sites uncovered brazen examples of plagiarism by Domenech when he was writing for a student weekly at the College of William and Mary. Ironically, the young right-winger was apparently fond of Salon's arts criticism, at least, because he plagiarized film critic Stephanie Zacharek, and Mary Elizabeth Williams, writing about television.

 [The Discerning Texan] Steyn on FIRE about Big Media's betrayal of the... : . I want to quote a paragraph. "Despite the Mosque bombings," you wrote, "There's a net gain of more than 100,000 civilians alive today who would have been shoveled into unmarked graves had Baathist rule continued. Meanwhile, the dictator would have continued gaming the international system through the Oil For Food program, subverting Jordan, and supporting terrorism as far afield as the Philippines." That's the math, I say, Mark Steyn, but most of MSM will not even begin to try and do the sums.

 [You Betcha I'm a Proud Army Mom] "Don't Shoot The Messenger!": I happened to catch a part of the The Today Show this morning. I do not seek out this show but my husband turns it on to catch the weather and traffic reports.

 [Wonkette, Politics for People with Dirty Minds] Chatology: Defining Victory Down: Russ Feingold managed to grab some of the spotlight, and his motion to censure President Bush gave Bill Kristol another chance to rock Chris Wallace’s world: Feingold “is smarter than the Democratic congressional leadership” and “deserves credit for taking a principled stand, and I honestly think he’s winning this debate.”

 [Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community] Murtha: "Rumsfeld, Cheney should resign": "On Sunday's edition of Meet the Press with Tim Russert, Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) said that Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should resign for misdecisions in the war in Iraq, RAW STORY has found. Crooks and Liars has a video excerpt from the interview at this link." -RAW STORY.

 [howieinseattle] Murtha: "Rumsfeld, Cheney should resign": "On Sunday's edition of Meet the Press with Tim Russert, Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) said that Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should resign for misdecisions in the war in Iraq, RAW STORY has found.

 [Think Progress] Murtha: Administration Claims Of Winning The... : Given what we know about VP Cheney’s direct financial ties to Haliburton, isn’t it clear that he has committed a fraud against the United States for the purpose of illegal financial gain, in accordance with the following statute? Couldn’t the same be said of any US official who knowingly made false statements to advance the cause of war, while owning shares of companies that stood to gain substantially from that war?

 [Atrios.blogspot.com] Eschaton: as the Vice President told Tim Russert a week before this thing started, .The reason there are terrorists in Iraq today like Zarqawi is we created .

 [Msnbc.msn.com] January 11, 2004 - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com: And to give you a sense of the campaigns, the way they’re planning, I’ve learned that Wesley Clark, on the night of the State of the Union, which the president, by the way, has scheduled for the day after the Iowa caucuses to make sure America knows that he’s the president, and can share the headlines, as well, Wesley Clark is going to have a town hall meeting watching the president give his State of the Union address and then respond to it in real time with this town hall meeting. These are candidates who are really thinking this through and trying to think of creative and interesting ways to motivate their voters.

 [Huffingtonpost.com] The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Russert Watch: "Yours Truly" | The ...: Couldn't he at least have mentioned that, as Doug Jehl puts it in the Times, "according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document," "a top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons"?

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