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HENRY: You know, going back to September 2001, the president said, dead or alive, we're going to get him. Still don't have him. I know you are saying there's successes on the war on terror, and there have been. That's a failure.

TOWNSEND: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.

- dave 12-30-2006 12:28 am [link] [1 comment]

the bell tolls not for thee

- dave 12-29-2006 6:57 pm [link] [add a comment]

fuck you, connecticut

- dave 12-29-2006 5:08 pm [link] [4 comments]

i hope the money they offer him for rocky 7 will bring him back out of retirement.

- dave 12-28-2006 4:54 pm [link] [1 comment]

what the fuck is an "embargoed" interview? is that like self-censorship or was woodward hoarding this so hed have some fresh quotes in the event of fords death?

- dave 12-28-2006 4:49 pm [link] [4 comments]

Yeee-fuckin-haawww!

- mark 12-27-2006 10:31 am [link] [add a comment]

does anybody know where i can find a map of the us militarys classification of baghdads ethno-sectarian divide? ive been looking for about two weeks and i just dont see it anywhere. so much for the vaunted internets.
- dave 12-26-2006 5:16 pm [link] [2 comments]

heck of a job, bushie


baghdad
- mark 12-16-2006 4:56 am [link] [add a comment]

in case you wanted to watch the obama dresses like ahmadinejad. (check out whos hosting the video at the end. sorry, no tyndall. its cable, after all.)

- dave 12-14-2006 8:19 pm [link] [add a comment]

Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?

“Al Qaeda, they have both,” [incoming Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee] Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?”

“Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say.

“Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured.


As the article points out, this man makes $165,200. Nice work if you can get it. Has he purposefully tried to not read anything on the subject of Al Qaeda? How is it even possible not to know this?
- jim 12-09-2006 8:12 pm [link] [1 comment]

Debka, a right-ish Israeli military news source not very well respected, claims that Gates listed Israel as a nuclear power in his testimony before congress. That seems like maybe a big deal. Everyone supposes that Israel has nukes, but as far as I know no major US administration officials have ever confirmed this. Am I wrong? Certainly Israel has a policy of not admitting (or denying) this. Was it just a slip of the tongue, or is this a first step to maybe getting at the heart of the matter in the MidEast? (I can dream, can't I?)
- jim 12-07-2006 8:46 pm [link] [4 comments]

Burton, who has since left the D.I.A., is not alone in his concern. Indeed, throughout the intelligence community, spies are beginning to wonder why their technology has fallen so far behind — and talk among themselves about how to catch up. Some of the country’s most senior intelligence thinkers have joined the discussion, and surprisingly, many of them believe the answer may lie in the interactive tools the world’s teenagers are using to pass around YouTube videos and bicker online about their favorite bands. Billions of dollars’ worth of ultrasecret data networks couldn’t help spies piece together the clues to the worst terrorist plot ever. So perhaps, they argue, it’ s time to try something radically different. Could blogs and wikis prevent the next 9/11?

- bill 12-03-2006 5:42 pm [link] [2 comments]

one of the few nice things to come out of the war is the association between tom friedman and f.u. (as in fuck you).

- dave 12-01-2006 11:16 pm [link] [1 comment]






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