] Powell said there is no evidence to suggest that Iran has
] developed the technology to make a nuclear weapon, but
] suggested that the regime is working to adapt missiles
] for nuclear warheads.

Just how much is his word worth, now?

Powell: Intelligence suggests Iran trying to adapt missiles for nukes - Nov 18, 2004 - CNN.com

] Conventional guerrilla-warfare strategy says that if your
] enemy is massing a huge conventional force to attack you,
] you disperse -- just vanish. Mao said, "Lose land and
] save people, land can be retaken. Lose people to save
] land, people and land both lost." In other words, don't
] risk your guerrilla force defending static positions.
]
] The real pros, the brains of the insurgency, slipped out
] of Fallujah weeks ago. They're already attacking us from
] the rear, just like Mao suggested, going after the soft
] targets, like the Iraqi cops. They grabbed a police
] station way up North and killed 21 poor suckers in
] uniform the other day.

Gary Brecher: Keeping you safe. from his underwear. in a recliner. in middle America.

War Nerd - Iraq: The Brecher Victory Plan!

] What they don't have the guts to admit, once and for all,
] is that THE PROBLEM IS MIDDLE AMERICA. Stop blaming the
] victim, folks. The problem with the idiocy and lunacy are
] the idiots and lunatics, not their mugging victims.
]
] Now that we've come out and said it, it's time to act. We
] at the eXile are here to solve problems. Middle America
] is the problem, and the eXile has the solution. It's a
] little extreme, and you folks will have to briefly
] suspend your little liberal-humanist consciences in order
] to get on board with us, but we think it's the only
] solution that'll work.
]
] Gas them. Gas every red state that voted for Bush. Gas
] them all, and gas them now. And if that sounds a little
] too 1940s for you, then fine, nuke the fuckers. Nukes
] have come a long way since 1945, so much so that they're
] not even 1940s anymore. It's just that gassing them
] sounds so much more appropriate.

The eXile Solution to Middle America - By Mark Ames

] "I decided to swim %u2026 but I changed my mind after
] seeing U.S. helicopters firing on and killing people who
] tried to cross the river."
]
] He watched horrified as a family of five was shot dead as
] they tried to cross. Then, he "helped bury a man by the
] river bank, with my own hands."
]
] "I kept walking along the river for two hours and I could
] still see some U.S. snipers ready to shoot anyone who
] might swim. I quit the idea of crossing the river and
] walked for about five hours through orchards."

Didn't Kerry characterize "free-fire" zones as war crimes?

ABC News: AP Photographer Flees Fallujah

] "And the genius that lies behind it, because he's not a
] man who rants against our freedoms, our liberties, our
] voting, our %u2014 the fact that our women go to school.
] He's not the Ayatollah Khomeini; he really doesn't care
] about all those things. To think that he's trying to rob
] us of our liberties and freedom is, I think, a gross
] mistake. What he has done, his genius, is identify
] particular American foreign policies that are offensive
] to Muslims whether they support these martial actions or
] not %u2014 our support for Israel, our presence on the
] Arabian Peninsula, our activities in Afghanistan and
] Iraq, our support for governments that Muslims believe
] oppress Muslims, be it India, China, Russia, Uzbekistan.
] Bin Laden has focused the Muslim world on specific,
] tangible, visual American policies.

MSNBC - CIA insider says U.S. fighting wrong war

] And the threat posed by bin Laden is also underestimated,
] says Scheuer. "I think our leaders over the last decade
] have done the American people a disservice...continuing
] to characterize Osama bin Laden as a thug, as a
] gangster," he says.
]
] "Until we respect him, sir, we are going to die in
] numbers that are probably unnecessary, yes. He's a very,
] very talented man and a very worthy opponent."

CBS News | CIA Agent Details Terror Threat | November 12, 2004

] The Marines are operating with liberal rules of
] engagement.
]
] "Everything to the west is weapons free," radios Staff
] Sgt. Sam Mortimer of Seattle, Washington. Weapons Free
] means the marines can shoot whatever they see -- it's all
] considered hostile.

Kevin Sites Blog: Fallujah Street by Street

] They interviewed a total of 7,868 people in 988
] households. But the relevant sample size for many
] purposes%u2014for instance, measuring the uncertainty of
] the analysis%u2014is 33, the number of clusters. That is
] because the data from individuals within a given cluster
] are highly correlated. Statistically, 33 is a relatively
] small sample (though it is the best that could be
] obtained by a small number of investigators in a country
] at war). That is the reason for the large range around
] the central value of 98,000, and is one reason why that
] figure might be wrong. (Though if this is the case, the
] true value is as likely to be larger than 98,000 as it is
] to be smaller.) It does not, however, mean, as some
] commentators have argued in response to this study, that
] figures of 8,000 or 194,000 are as likely as one of
] 98,000. Quite the contrary. The farther one goes from
] 98,000, the less likely the figure is.

Economist.com | 100,000 Iraqi deaths

] I took a taxi to the front, introduced myself to the
] local commander, who had gone, as I recall, to Iowa
] State, and spent a couple days waiting for the impending
] human wave attack. That attack was to be conducted
] primarily with 11-and 12-year-old boys as troops, nearly
] all of them unarmed. There were several thousand kids and
] their job was to rise out of the trench, praising Allah,
] run across No Man's Land, be killed by the Iraqi machine
] gunners, then go directly to Paradise, do not pass GO, do
] not collect 200 dinars. And that's exactly what happened
] in a battle lasting less than 10 minutes. None of the
] kids fired a shot or made it all the way to the other
] side. And when I asked the purpose of this exercise, I
] was told it was to demoralize the cowardly Iraqi
] soldiers.
]
] It was the most horrific event I have ever seen, and I
] once covered a cholera epidemic in Bangladesh that killed
] 40,000 people.
]
] Waiting those two nights for the attack was surreal. Some
] kids acted as though nothing was wrong while others cried
] and puked. But when the time came to praise Allah and
] enter Paradise, not a single boy tried to stay behind.
]
] Now put this in a current context. What effective limit
] is there to the number of Islamic kids willing to blow
] themselves to bits? There is no limit, which means that a
] Bush Doctrine can't really stand in that part of the
] world. But of course President Bush, who may think he
] pulled the switch on a couple hundred Death Row inmates
] in Texas, has probably never seen a combat death. He
] doesn't get it and he'll proudly NEVER get it.
]
] Welcome to the New Morality.

Teh Cringely

PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column

] COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An error with an electronic voting
] system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban
] Columbus, elections officials said.
]
] Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving
] 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a
] precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast
] ballots in that precinct.

Holy Fuck, Batman!

CNN.com - Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio - Nov 5, 2004