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Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004

security blanket statement

security scholars for a sensible foreign policy

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prehensile dementia

amateur neurology is the new black!

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pan-a-che

havent seen the movie and i dont have an opinion about guevara but that wont be stopping me from calling someone(s) an idiot. i just wont say who.

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Sunday, Oct 10, 2004

rit of assurance

"The answer to the first point is that Blix and his team of inspectors were saddled with a complicated list of "cluster issues", ironically assembled by Duelfer during his tenure as head of the UN weapons inspectors, that would have needed to be rectified for any finding of compliance to be made. These "clusters" postulated the need for Iraq to prove the negative, something that is virtually impossible to do. We now know that Iraq's WMD were destroyed in 1991. The problem wasn't the weapons, but verification of Iraq's declarations. The standards of verification set by Duelfer-Blix were impossible for Iraq to meet, thus making closure on the "cluster" issues also an unattainable goal. This situation answers the second point as well. Since the inspection process was pre-programmed to fail, there would be no way the US or the UK would accept any finding of compliance from the UN weapons inspectors. The inspection process was rigged to create uncertainty regarding Iraq's WMD, which was used by the US and the UK to bolster their case for war."

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anti anti

""The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source -- antimatter, the eerie 'mirror' of ordinary matter -- in future weapons," the San Francisco Chronicle reports."

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of gasbagatology

whos going to piss me off today?

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derridean derivatives

orcinus v. strict constructionism

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Saturday, Oct 09, 2004

bai bye

tristero slices and dices the ny times mag kerry profile.

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drat dink

some dink ::: opinion maker


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Thursday, Oct 07, 2004

mon overbored

have to admit, i lost interest in wonkette. much like my initial enthusiasm for gawker, the snark to content ratio was too high. although i still suspect shes very likely to become the gen x maureen dowd. i did not see the cover of the ny times magazine but it wouldnt surprise me if that spurned her recent appearances on msnbc and nbc, neither of which ive seen. didnt take long for her to be howled at for being inconsequential. but really, hes mad at the nets for their breeding inconsequence. shes merely a supplicant, or at worst, a fallen angel. and i know you are asking yourself this very question -- what would billmon do? hes our very own blogger messiah.

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