An Iraqi blogger visits New Orleans and is shocked at how much it reminds him of home…but not in a good way. Adding insult to injury, he observes that, after the 1991 Gulf War, the despised Saddam rebuilt the infrastructure of Iraq within months.
Speaking of rebuilding, the reconstruction of Greensburg, Kansas, destroyed by tornados last week, likely will be delayed because a lot of the needed equipment is in…(wait for it)… Iraq.
Religious fundamentalist murderer Ayman al Zawahri releases a tape…and the White House (and Brit Hume) agrees with what he says. Gosh, in the good old days, they at least made a show of disagreeing with him.
The reaction to Tenet’s book has been interesting. So far, Douglas Feith and Bob Woodward have reviewed it in the WSJ and the Washington Post, respectively. Not surprisingly, they’ve been pretty critical of Tenet’s account as well as his performance in office. But then, they have an agenda, no? Feith wants to deflect blame and Woodward wants to sell his own account of what really happened — including the now infamous “slam dunk” quote from Tenet.
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