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“WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, which spurned the United Nations in its drive to depose Saddam Hussein in Iraq, is finding itself forced back into the arms of the international body because other nations are refusing to contribute peacekeeping troops or reconstruction money without United Nations approval.”
- from The New York Times (via Yahoo!)
INT. UNITED […]

- A hearty welcome to Ms. Willa Sagal, third daughter of your next Vice President. Although her schedule is tight, she’ll be expected to pull her weight on the campaign trail. That weight, at present, is about eight pounds.
- At the heart of the Republican defense of the whole State of the Union […]

“The so-called forces of law and order (in Baghdad) just kind of collapsed. There is not a single plan that would have dealt with that.”
- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, today

Endgame Scenarios From the US’s War Plan (fed. doc #173275b)
[Mr President: As you can see , our defense and intelligence services have meticulously worked […]

Just when the Bush administration thought they’d quelled the controversy surrounding bogus uranium-related claims in the State of the Union Address, more evidence surfaced today about other assertions from the speech.
“Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.”
In a […]

I’ve just returned from a media luncheon, hosted by “The Week” magazine. The panel consisted of Sidney Blumenthal, Monica Crowley, Gary Hart, Ed Rollins, and moderator Harold Evans. The topic was “Is Bush Unbeatable in 2004?”
Naturally, when I received my invitation I immediately resolved not to hog too much of the limelight. […]

Washington, Tuesday (FA Wire) - Testifying before Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan outraged many conservatives by telling lawmakers today that given downgraded projections on economic growth, further rate cuts were not out of the question, but massive cuts were not a possibility.
“It’s clear to us there is a downside limit – zero being the […]

[Longtime readers of this site know that I don’t spend much time commenting on commentators. To recap my reasons - there are plenty of people that do this quite well, and plenty of others who end up inside “Harry Potter and the Echo Chamber of Squabbles.” But every once in a while…]
Bush’s State […]

“Therefore, I take responsibility before my readers… I will no longer take the Palestinian leadership’s declarations seriously.”
- Saudi journalist Ahmad Al-Rab’i, on being misled by Yassr Arafat concerning arms shipments to Palestinians
“It’s not about one individual player. Everybody has to take responsibility. I take responsibility.”
- Milwaulkee Bucks general manager Ernie Grunfeld, on the team’s […]

- A word of advice to world leaders: If you’re going to make the decision to launch an all-out war based on the intel from a couple of documents, you might want to read them all thoroughly. Yes, including the footnotes. Yes, I know it’s hard and that you’re very, very busy. […]

To: All administration personnel
From: Karl Rove
Re: Language, people, language!
Everyone has been performing beautifully of late. Especially the President. I am pleased.
But it’s time to finalize the WMD language shift. We’ve been moving towards it, but the Brits have already arrived at the final pre-weapons-find language mark, and we’re lagging. […]