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10:07 pm EST, Feb 27, 2005 |
Can you know you are in the middle of a tipping point, or is it only something you can see in retrospect? The Tipping Points |
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Mr. Bush's Version (of History? of the Present? of Reality?) |
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10:49 pm EST, Feb 9, 2004 |
JLM says: Freedom of the press in action. The word 'skewer' comes to mind. Looking back, this interview will be seen as a turning point. I say: This oped is sharp. Mr. Bush's Version (of History? of the Present? of Reality?) |
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2:36 am EST, Jan 25, 2004 |
] Can you believe President Bush is still pushing the
] cockamamie claim that we went to war in Iraq with a real
] coalition rather than a gaggle of poodles and lackeys?
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] His State of the Union address took his swaggering
] sheriff routine to new heights. This is a fun rant about the State of the Union Address. Sharply critical of everyone. Riding the Crazy Train |
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US Withdraws Weapons Hunters From Iraq |
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9:21 am EST, Jan 8, 2004 |
The Bush administration has quietly withdrawn from Iraq a 400-member military team whose job was to scour the country for military equipment. The step was described by some military officials as a sign that the administration might have lowered its sights and no longer expected to uncover the caches of chemical and biological weapons that the White House cited as a principal reason for going to war last March. US Withdraws Weapons Hunters From Iraq |
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Saddam Hussein Captured Alive; Iraqis Celebrate |
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2:59 pm EST, Dec 14, 2003 |
American military officials confirmed today that Saddam Hussein had been captured alive in Tikrit on Saturday night.
They confirmed that it was him based on DNA evidence. Not that I suspect they have the wrong guy, but this IS bullshit. You can't confirm identity using DNA tests. DNA tests can prove that someone is not the same as the person who contributed the sample material, but not the other way around. In Baghdad, huge crowds celebrated in the streets with gunfire. Saddam Hussein Captured Alive; Iraqis Celebrate |
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Telling the Truth in Iraq |
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10:58 am EDT, Aug 17, 2003 |
"There is a dramatic gulf now between Iraqis and a lot of other Arabs. Young people here want to move on. In 10 years, this will be a very different place. If I can be a part of it, it will be like Hong Kong or Korea but with an Iraqi face." Talking to young Iraqis, you sense how much they want to break the old mold how much they want to be Arabs, with an Arab identity, but to build a modern state that actually focuses on tapping its people's talents and energies, rather than diverting them, and one that seeks to base their dignity on what they build, not on whom they fight. Telling the Truth in Iraq |
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10:08 pm EST, Mar 19, 2003 |
Get Your War On; It's a go. Catch the president at 10:15 ET. U: OK, so NOW they are talking about how this might take longer then expected??? You've got ... War. |
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10:29 am EST, Feb 25, 2003 |
Read daily reports from the National Infrastructure Protection Center, which will become part of the Department of Homeland Security effective 1 March 2003. Each report begins with a daily overview, followed by summarized news items (with supporting URLs to the full text) in each of fifteen industry-specific categories. WHY isn't this in HTML!?# NIPC Daily Report |
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TNR Online | Intelligence Test (print) |
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12:34 pm EDT, Sep 19, 2002 |
If the Bush administration's preparations for war with Saddam Hussein were proceeding appropriately, the president would probably be curling up right now with something called a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) for Iraq. But ... there is no NIE for Iraq and there probably won't be one anytime soon. Everything is worse then you thought. TNR Online | Intelligence Test (print) |
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Iraqi air defence site attacked | BBC News |
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10:56 am EDT, Sep 6, 2002 |
US and UK planes have taken part in an attack on a major Iraqi defence facility in the west of the country. About 12 jets dropped bombs. The operation, which targeted the main air defence command centre for western Iraq, is part of the enforcement of the air-exclusion zones over the country. [From Yahoo news:] Iraq considers the patrols a violation of its sovereignty and frequently shoots at them with anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles. In response, coalition pilots try to bomb Iraqi air defense systems. There have been more than 30 allied attacks against Iraqi installations this year. Sorry to burst the bubble, but war this is not. Iraq is probably not even unusually upset or concerned about it. After the 35th such event in the last 8 months (and, no doubt, after hundreds of such engagements over the last decade), this stuff has become routine. I find it interesting that this story is, at present, nowhere to be found on the New York Times and LA Times web sites. Iraqi air defence site attacked | BBC News |
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