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[The Tao of Politics] If President Bush says he has a strategy for victory in Iraq, I think that statement is purely political. You know, in several recent elections the Democrats have been accused of saying anything to get elected.

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[ Daily Intel Briefing - Kilo Echo 4 - Bravenet Web Journal] First Casualty in Operation Swarmer?: 060316-A-7909G-001: Soldiers from the Iraqi Army's 1st Brigade, 4th Division and the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team receive a pre-flight briefing from a UH-60 Blackhawk crew chief prior to the start of Operation Swarmer, the combined air assault operation to clear a suspected insurgent operting area northeast of Samarra. (Photo by SSG Lyle Grose, Pathfinder Company, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade)

[Newsie8200's Penndit] This Past Week in Jokes posted 3/18/06: “I think he’s really cute, but I was told last time to stay away from him outside of the dinner so I don’t ruin or tarnish his political career,” Carey told HOH. “But I have a boyfriend now anyway, so its just strictly buisness [sic] with me and Ed, but still at least it’s a cute guy assigned to watch me.”

[Today in Iraq] DAILY WAR NEWS FOR THURSDAY, March 16, 2006 ... : Turkey, which hosted Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Tuesday, has been alarmed by the escalating violence between Iraqi Sunnis and Shi'ites and fears all-out civil war could plunge the wider region into turmoil. Turkish newspapers quoted Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda on Thursday as saying Gul had told him during talks last month in Ankara that the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq would greatly bolster Iran's influence.

[Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)] Daily News For March 16, 2006: Bush's nomination seem inevitable in 2000, successfully freezing much of the money and talent that might have flowed to his competitors, so, too, do Clinton's advisers seem to be sending out signals that resistance is not only futile but also dangerous. When I asked Warner's aides for permission to attend some of his policy briefings in January, word came back that the outside experts who had been asked to make presentations, some of whom worked in the Clinton administration, balked because they were afraid the Clinton camp would find out that they were granting courtesies to another candidate.

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[WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM] 10-year-old boy prisoner of Guantanamo Bay --... : Actually, the only jolt for some readers will come nearly halfway through when they read that the writer of the piece, Marie Brenner, is a good friend of former New York Times reporter Judith Miller—and even helped organize a farewell dinner for her just before she went to jail last year. The article, no surprise, is sympathetic to Miller, and

[Connect Left] Bird Flu Proves Profitable for Donald Rumsfeld: Bush and Cheney are making millions off the Iraq war, but profiteering from fear of a pandemic disease outbreak? Only a Republican could travel down this road and still sleep at night.

[Usliberals.about.com] Donald Rumsfeld to Profit Millions from Bush Spending on Avian ...: CNN/Money magazine is reporting today, "The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.

[Whyareweback.blogspot.com] Why Are We Back In Iraq?: By contrast, a March 8 Associated Press article reported that Abramoff "says President Bush knew him well enough to joke with him about weightlifting." The AP article also noted that, according to Vanity Fair, "Rove's relationship with Abramoff was deeper" than the White House has previously acknowledged, and that "Rove dined several times at Abramoff's former restaurant in Washington, Signatures, and was Abramoff's guest in the owner's box of the NCAA basketball playoffs a few years ago, sitting for much of the game at Abramoff's side." A separate March 8 AP article was devoted entirely to Abramoff's claim that McCain "deliberately humiliated him."

[Huffingtonpost.com] The Blog | James Love: What Bush did not Explain About Bird Flu ...: It seemed a convenient distraction from the fact that the earlier Bush administration had shipped Saddam Hussein most of his deadly biological weapons arsenal including anthrax and West Nile Virus. SARS was pathognomonic (i.e., symptomatic and characteristic) of what I had predicted and explained in the book, Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare (Tetrahedron Publishing Group, 2001), a prophetically-titled text that predated the 9-11 attacks on America by several months, and provided a contextual analysis of certain globalists, links to recent "outbreaks.

[Tpmcafe.com] Recent Posts by Just Left of Center | TPMCafe: Translated, Rumsfeld said that we can be successful in Iraq even if we still have terrorist attacks there. As I vaguely recall now, the reason we went to Iraq was to help prevent terrorist attacks here ("fight them over there") and to deny terrorists certain tools of terror (the mythical WMD).

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