huffingtonpost.com - 8/7/2008
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What just happened? Evidence . A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported in any way: The Iraq Intelligence Chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush -- a man still carrying a $1 million reward for capture, the Jack of Diamonds in Bush's famous deck of wanted men -- has been America's secret source on Iraq. Starting in January of 2003, ...
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The decline and fall
The Sideshow —
... firestorm that accompanies books like Suskind's, which, "reveals no he said/she said dispute over the letter," written on "creamy White House stationery." In responding to Suskind's book, which gets a mixed review from Salon, John Dean says that "It looks like Cheney's been very effective in setting up his deniability and being the fail-safe for Bush," while agreeing that Suskind's Iraq war allegations alone are worse than Watergate. The explosive charges from a ...
Band of outlaws
slacktivist —
... that sort of anarchism does exist, but it is a mere branch of the Nonconformists. We dig deeper and we blow you higher. We wish to deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice and virtue, honour and treachery, upon which mere rebels base themselves. The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right and Wrong.”
--- The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
Ron Suskind describes one of several smoking guns presented in his latest book, ...
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Suskind: Bush admin ordered forgery...
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Atta Was in the U.S., Not Baghdad, at Time Alleged in Forged Letter?
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Tenet and the “Creamy White House Stationery”
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 8/7/2008 — One supposed “news” item from the book apparently asserts that British intelligence had a high-placed Iraqi source who convincingly told them before the start of the war that Iraq had no WMD and that the British relayed this to the United States. As ...
Bush chides China then flies in for Games —
Reuters: Politics 8/7/2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush flew in for China's Olympics party on Thursday fresh from criticizing its rights record -- but attention finally swung to sport with soccer powerhouses Brazil and Argentina off to good starts.
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