Was watching the latest suicide bombings in Iraq this morning (Australian time), and was struck by the fact that in April 2003, coverage from the very same camera angle was showing us US troops and Iraqis tearing down one of Saddam's statues. Right outside the Palestine Hotel, which has been the foreign media base in Baghdad since the war started it seems - oh, but no one told the US military when they fired tank rounds at the place, in the invasion stage of the war.
Still too hot to really think or do anything, but just thought I would note the latest from Iraq - oh, there is the possibility that 2000 American troop deaths have been reached today.
Oh, and a leak to the New York Times has said that VP Cheney was the initial Administration source for Valerie Plame's name - hmm, pinch of salt, Judith Miller anyone? But when I heard that the indictments may go that high, yes, I did get excited. What's an appropriate phrase in these circumstances, oh yes, go f*** yourself, as Cheney said to one of the politicians on Capitol Hill a while ago :)
Anyone else thinking of birds roosting? Anyone else who can't remember Watergate wondering whether the atmosphere nowadays is similar to Nixon's second term? If you extrapolate September 11 as Gen X and Y's Kennedy assassination, maybe Plamegate could be the Nixon resignation? Exciting :)
Later taters
Pauly
Still too hot to really think or do anything, but just thought I would note the latest from Iraq - oh, there is the possibility that 2000 American troop deaths have been reached today.
Oh, and a leak to the New York Times has said that VP Cheney was the initial Administration source for Valerie Plame's name - hmm, pinch of salt, Judith Miller anyone? But when I heard that the indictments may go that high, yes, I did get excited. What's an appropriate phrase in these circumstances, oh yes, go f*** yourself, as Cheney said to one of the politicians on Capitol Hill a while ago :)
Anyone else thinking of birds roosting? Anyone else who can't remember Watergate wondering whether the atmosphere nowadays is similar to Nixon's second term? If you extrapolate September 11 as Gen X and Y's Kennedy assassination, maybe Plamegate could be the Nixon resignation? Exciting :)
Later taters
Pauly
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