Sorry for the gap between postings kids. Jack's been sick and work pretty busy. I hope you all will forgive me. Speaking of forgiveness, will I be forgiven for enjoying the spectacle of Senator Craig twisting in the glare of public humiliation? Apparently the Senator is rethinking his resignation from the Senate and looking to withdraw his guilty plea, all on the advice of some rather high-priced lawyers, including the attorney who recently represented Michael Vic, the erstwhile NFL star and dog killer. I still think Craig's as good as gone. I saw an interview with Dan Bolton on McNeil Lehrer and he was pretty adamant when he said the White House thought the Senator was doing the right thing by resigning and that in time, the Senator himself will realize that.
Something else in the news this morning caught my attention. A few days ago New York was in a tizzy because someone discovered some nerve gas, purportedly taken from an Iraqi chemical weapons plant, lying around in a file cabinet at the UN. Further investigation revealed that the substance found at a UN weapons inspectors' office last month appears to be a non-toxic solvent.
The material was originally found Aug. 24 at a UN office in midtown Manhattan. The material, from a bombed-out Iraqi research facility, was in inventory files with a label that indicated it could be phosgene, a chemical substance used in the First World War.But it wasn’t phosgene, was it? . “If it turns out to be something that was mislabelled, we'll need to find out why it was mislabelled," said a UN official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Yes, by all means let's find out why innocuous solvent was mislabeled as a WMD in the run up to the first gulf war, although I wouldn’t expect that the investigation into this “mislabeling” will go very far. What this tells me is that the plan to invade Iraq and depose Sadam Hussein based on manufactured evidence extends as far back as the first Bush administration. The fruit doesn’t fall too far from the tree does it? Of course Dick Cheney was the defense secretary under Bush I so the fact that there was phony WMD evidence around in 1991 isn’t really all that surprising.
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In a sense, it is interesting that we even think there was a first and second gulf war. A member of our armed services, who had been in the region "between wars," recently reminded me that there was a fairly constant low-level war going on between us and Saddam during the Clinton years. Basically, the fighting never truly stopped. Is this an important or even interesting insight? Not really, but I make it anyway.
It is an important point and has been documented that our 'no fly zone' shoot-downs and medical embargos under Clinton were responsible for the deaths of 10s of thousands of Iraqi Children 'between the wars'. Madeline Albright went on 60 minutes and said the deaths of those Iraqi children were a sacrifice America was willing to make to protect our 'national interests'.
Agreed. Clinton is doing his best Jimmy Carter impersonation these days but it bears remembering that he was the one who implemented welfare "reform", expanded the federal death penalty, fought a shadow war in the middle east and ceded vast powers to the NSA and CIA pre 911.You all know my feelings about centrist Democrats; useless as tits on a bull.
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