The big news in bated breath anticipation of outcomes hopefully serving American geopolitical interests is the Iraqi election on May 7. The stakes are high, whoa-ho-ho!, so CNN sits down with its resident foreign expert guy, Fareed Zakaria. The main question on every Americans mind is, Will the trillions of dollars spent and thousands of [...]

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Karl Rove has learned his lesson:
Mr. Rove adamantly rejects allegations that the administration deliberately lied about the presence of weapons in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. But he acknowledges that the failure to find them badly damaged Mr. Bush’s presidency, and he blames himself for not countering the narrative that “Bush lied,” calling it “one of the [...]

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Unrelated thoughts….
Today I watched several hours of MSNBC and CNN. Don’t ask me why. It might be some masochistic streak in my personality. Or I am secretly addicted to non-stop updates on all things Michael Jackson, Sarah Palin, and the endless speculation about the impact of Al Franken [...]

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Dick Cheney (who pronounces his last name “Chee Knee,” because he’s as dumb as “So-to-may-er“) denies he ever said that thing that he said so many times that a majority of the U.S. public believed that it was true  — long after it was unquestionably NOT true — and that gave his government cover to [...]

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Where have all the flowers gone? Abu Ghraib, of course!

Yes, I’ve posted on this before. Even did a cartoon. But I couldn’t resist linking to a photo gallery.
Spread the joy…

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