If anybody out there needs to catch up or get a good refresher course in who lied us into war in Iraq and how, may I recommend this great article by former DIA officer W. Patrick Lang, "Drinking the Kool-Aid" from the summer of 2004? It is a detailed retelling of the activities of the neoconservatives in the office of the vice-president, the Office of Special Plans, the Policy Counter-Terrorism Evaluation Group and the way they accomplished their end-run around the regular intelligence...

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We all know (hopefully) from reading Dr. Gordon Prather 3 times a week at Antiwar.com and World Net Daily (and even from rags like the Washington Post) that if the government of Iran began to enrich uranium for nuclear bomb making purposes right now, it would take them 10 years to make one simple gun-type nuke (Prather's term) (and nevermind the delivery system). In other words, all the hype about some imminent nuclear danger is a pack of lies. Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D., the great witness to...

Despite uncertainty, U.S. journalists take sides By Steve Rendall Hat Tip: Gordon Prather

I have heard through the grapevine that Harry Browne, one of the most thoughtful, articulate and successful spokesmen for the ideas and values of individual liberty, author, lecturer, radio host, two time Libertarian Party presidential candidate and personal hero of mine, is very ill. My understanding is that it's a pretty bad situation. I believe that Harry was the one who first offered a bit of structure (that I would accept) to my rampant government hatred. Libertarianism he called it, and...

I hate to see people get locked up by the state, but when it's one of Doug Feith's employees, and his object [.pdf] is helping a foreign nation get this one into a war with Iran, he can rot. Really, he should have gotten at least 20, but I'll take it at this point. Now we'll see about the Dynamic Duo over at AIPAC. Here's to hoping they don't plead out. I want to know what Franklin was doing hanging out with Michael Ledeen, Harold Rhode, Manucher Ghorbanifar, Ahmad Chalabi, Italian and Iranian...

It seems the Shia will have to have a coalition with the Kurds - at least for now. The breakdown

I love Lukery's blog.

According to an AP news article today by Ted Bridis, the FBI missed internal signs of espionage in the case of Bureau Intelligence Analyst Leandro Aragoncillo. To read the AP article go to: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has continued to make short shrift of personnel security on the heels of the well-known Robert Hanssen Spy scandal, and in the middle of a war on terrorism. Despite several IG reports, congressional inquiries, and media reports on several other recent cases of alleged...

If Osama were elected president of the United States - eh, seems a lot like a Republican to me, what with his belief in collective guilt and his religious fanaticism and all - he says in his new recorded message he knows just how to keep Americans safe from terrorists:

So here we are in 2006, and the Bush/Cheney regime, which should have been thrown out so long ago, is still sitting pretty and continues to threaten its perceived enemies with regime change. How are they being allowed to get away with this overturning of the old order without any effective opposition to them by some number or combination of the hundreds of millions of people in this country? Obviously there are many factors at work here besides that everybody's busy working on their own...

Michael Fortier, co-conspiritor in the Oklahoma City Bombing, is being released. What a sham. Developing...

Riverbend has taken the anniversary of the start of the first campaign of mass death against Iraq by the United States to examine the differences in the rebuilding efforts by Hussein's regime and the "coalition of the willing." Damn. And it turns out that the interpreter who was murdered during the kidnapping of Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll was her old friend Alan from down at the record store. I am terribly sorry for not doing a good enough job of keeping my government from...