Saturday, April 10, 2004
In the handbasket (part 1)
If this is true, Rice is in big trouble:
Glad they have her under oath. I won't share the fury I feel about this, since so many others have already done so (check out the Daily Kos, for something that just about captures it).
As for the situation in Iraq, I'm fairly dreading the next few weeks. Juan Cole thinks the governing council may disintegrate. We're still getting fairly little news out of Iraq; as during the war, blogs are the best source of up-to-date info. And now lots of people in Iraq have them, and those are really the most fascinating on the net.
The Iraqi people deserved much, much better than we have given them.
WASHINGTON, April 9 — President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.
The warning came in a secret briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a "closely held intelligence report" that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.
The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was "historical" in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.
Glad they have her under oath. I won't share the fury I feel about this, since so many others have already done so (check out the Daily Kos, for something that just about captures it).
As for the situation in Iraq, I'm fairly dreading the next few weeks. Juan Cole thinks the governing council may disintegrate. We're still getting fairly little news out of Iraq; as during the war, blogs are the best source of up-to-date info. And now lots of people in Iraq have them, and those are really the most fascinating on the net.
The Iraqi people deserved much, much better than we have given them.
