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From: Karl Rove
To: All personnel
Re: Our Methods
Minions;
We have suffered setbacks. But these had been foreseen, and there is still enough time. I am pleased.
Know, then, that the coming week poses difficulties and challenges, for it is the week of a holiday, and our news cycle has been clipped. Therefore, […]

Momentous events, even tragic events, have a way of enriching our vocabularies even as they wreak havoc on our world. Ask any etymologist (no, not those guys outside chasing cicadas - the other ones) - interesting times bring interesting words. These past 12 months have produced a bumper crop of new dictionary entries.
yellowcake […]

WASHINGTON, May 25 (New York Times) — An Army summary of deaths and mistreatment involving prisoners in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan shows a widespread pattern of abuse involving more military units than previously known.
The cases from Iraq date back to April 15, 2003, a few days after Saddam Hussein’s statue was toppled in […]

From MSNBC: PORTLAND, Ore. - Offering a rare public apology, the FBI admitted mistakenly linking an American lawyer’s fingerprint to one found near the scene of a terrorist bombing in Spain, a blunder that led to his imprisonment for two weeks…
The FBI maintained its certainty even as Spanish authorities said by mid-April that […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush will seek to convince skeptical Americans that he has a plan to bring stability to Iraq in a prime-time speech on Monday night as he tries to reverse the damaging fallout over Iraqi prisoner abuses.
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Part 1: Intro
- Hi, what’s up?
- Despite what you’ve heard, things are […]

The latest revelations out of Abu Ghraib are so mind-bogglingly horrifying that we need to act now, and act hard. What’s notable about this is that if we have any intention of getting the hearts and minds of the Arab world while said organs are still in their hosts’ bodies, we’re going to have […]

From CNN:
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. military personnel and Iraqi police Thursday raided the compound of the Iraqi National Congress and the nearby home of Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi.
Chalabi’s nephew, Salim Chalabi, said the forces entered his uncle’s home, put a gun to Chalabi’s head and threatened him.
Describing what his uncle told […]

I’m extremely busy today, so I only have this brief moment to check in with you, me hearties. I probably should’ve had something in reserve for an occasion like this. I should have planned for it. Instead, I created this weblog, made myself responsible for hundreds of readers, and now I find […]

From the desk of Ramzi Bamar, Vice President, Gaza Rentals Inc.
Dear Mr. Arafat;
Regarding your request for office space rental for your Fatah movement, I regret to inform you that we do not have any available properties at the present time.
Yes, as you point out, our ad in yesterday’s “Gaza-ette” did advertise “hundreds of affordable properties […]

From The Boston Globe:
Soon after Kerry made those remarks to radio broadcaster Don Imus, a supporter and friend of the presumed Democratic nominee, Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot assailed Kerry in unusually personal language, at one point saying Kerry’s character is ‘’defective.” The objection reflected the heated politics surrounding allegations that US military personnel have […]