Rumsfeld: Virgin For The Volcano
Why doesn’t George Bush just throw a virgin into a volcano? Or Dick Cheney? Or Lynn Cheney?
Donald Rumsfeld
Virginia, Floridated
Rather than gossip about the dunking of The Don, I’d rather focus on suspicious electoral arithmetic in Virginia.
Unreported: The Zarqawi Invitation
They got him — the big, bad, beheading berserker in Iraq. But, something’s gone unreported in all the glee over getting Zarqawi … who invited him into Iraq in the first place?
If you prefer your fairy tales unsoiled by facts, read no further. If you want the uncomfortable truth, begin with this: A phone call to Baghdad to Saddam’s Palace on the night of April 21, 2003. It was Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on a secure line from Washington to General Jay Garner.
Cowardice in Journalism Award for Newsweek
“It’s appalling that this story got out there,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on her way back from Iraq.
What’s not appalling to Condi is that the US is holding prisoners at Guantanamo under conditions termed “torture” by the Red Cross. What’s not appalling to Condi is that prisoners of the Afghan war are held in violation of international law after that conflict has supposedly ended. What is not appalling to Condi is that prisoner witnesses have reported several instances of the Koran’s desecration.
General Sacked by Bush Says He Wanted Early Elections
By David Leigh – The Guardian UK
[London] Jay Garner, the US general abruptly dismissed as Iraq’s first occupation administrator after a month in the job, says he fell out with the Bush circle [after he called for swift and] free elections and rejected an imposed programme of privatisation.
Jessica Lynch Captures Saddam Ex-Dictator Demands Back-Pay From Baker
Former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was taken into custody yesterday at approximately 8:30pm Baghdad time. Various television executives, White House spin doctors and propaganda experts at the Pentagon are at this time wrestling with the question of whether to claim PFC Jessica Lynch seized the ex-potentate or that Saddam surrendered after close hand-to-hand combat with current Iraqi strongman Paul Bremer III.
