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Archive for May 1st, 2006

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Call Me a Crazed Conspiracy Theorist But . . .

This article fairly screams “plant!”
Via OTB.

Monday, May 1st, 2006

The Engine of the Iran-War Clown Car

Yglesias:
It’s hardly a secret at this point, but one of the things reading Cobra II drives home is the extent to which the fix was already in during the final months of hand-wringing and diplomacy over Iraq. The administration had decided to invade, and the purpose of the diplomacy was to try and create a [...]

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Everything Old Is New Again

In a little-remarked column from January of this year, Michael Ledeen points to reports that Iraq moved some of its WMDs to Syria for safekeeping. Oh, I’m sorry. Did I write “Iraq” just now?
Iran. He said Iran had recently moved some of its WMDs to Syria for safekeeping.
Couldn’t these people at least show us the [...]

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Don’t Know the Difference Between Iraq and Iran

American rhetoric against Iran reminiscent of run-up to Iraq war
As if on cue, Secretary of State Rice:
“I absolutely believe that we have a lot of diplomatic arrows in our quiver at the Security Council and also like-minded states that would be able and willing to look at additional measures if the Security Council does not [...]