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Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - Posts

<jack> Later today, I think you should punch me in the cock, and then I'll sue John Kerry.
<jack> I'll be like 'who the hell did that? JOHN KERRY!!!'
<jack> And later, you'll admit it was you, and nothing will change.

What inspires such vicious violence to a man's vagina? Well, things like this, of course: End of an Affair, Washington Post editorial 09/01/2006 which (under)states things like this: 'It's unfortunate that so many people took him seriously.' and 'our oft-stated belief that far too much attention [was paid to this event]' and 'But all those who have opined on this affair ought to take note of the not-so-surprising disclosure that the primary source of the newspaper column in which Ms. Plame's cover as an agent was purportedly blown in 2003 was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage.' It's like they're writing to themselves, but not.

They couldn't do this (from The Plame Blame Game's Real Culprits, David Brooks, Weekly Standard 09/02/2006) and call themselves out: 'The media — especially the Washington Post and New York Times — relied heavily on Wilson's reckless and unfounded charges to wage journalistic jihad against the White House and Bush political adviser Karl Rove. Reporters and columnists, based on little more than Joe Wilson's harrumphing, bought the line that the White House "leaked" Plame's name to discredit her husband.'

It's too bad the complicity'll be drowned out in calls for Rumsfeld's beheading and Bush's scaremongering about a "caliphate" - a word I bet he had to practice pronouncing and then practicing again looking all serious.

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Bad news...

I no longer have power to save Iraq from civil war, warns Shia leader
By Gethin Chamberlain and Aqeel Hussein in Baghdad (Filed: 03/09/2006)

The most influential moderate Shia leader in Iraq has abandoned attempts to restrain his followers, admitting that there is nothing he can do to prevent the country sliding towards civil war.

Aides say Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is angry and disappointed that Shias are ignoring his calls for calm and are switching their allegiance in their thousands to more militant groups which promise protection from Sunni violence and revenge for attacks.

"I will not be a political leader any more," he told aides. "I am only happy to receive questions about religious matters."

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