ANOTHER bad news day for Dubya!

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

1. Cheney papers -- murky at best; why the secrecy if they were "only" hiding Iraqi oilfield maps?

2. British scientist dead -- sympathy for his side no matter how it turns out that he perished.

3. Aluminum tube fantasy is slowly rising to the top of debunk list.

4. Shifting the goalposts -- Blair cuts bait on WMD, says it was worth it anyway.

5. Boiling resentment among the troops in Iraq

[JNelson6563]

1. yes, it looks grim

for the Simian and is pals.

Julie

[papau]

2. Even US Media said foul on WH's Canadian Gay ABC journalist

pass off to Drudge when they tried to get "even" for the fellows reporting - via video - "Boiling resentment among the troops in Iraq"

Maybe the media is awake - or at least some of the worst editors controlling and pushing the GOP/Bush/rightward spin are on vacation.

[nostamj]

3. re: #5

U.S. Army Spc. Zack Watkins (center) and fellow 3rd Infantry Division soldiers from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment listen as their commander discusses their extended stay in Habaniyah, Iraq, on July 7. Right, President Bush celebrates Iraq "victory" onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln May 1

[opihimoimoi]

4. wow, what a contrast. picture of the photo Op boy king and the real

troops, the ones who do battle.

why we Americans can suck for the toad is baffling.

[nostamj]

5. should have added...

those photos are from a good article in salon.com today:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/18/pre_war/index.html

From heroes to targets
The U.S. occupation of Iraq has turned into a daily debacle, say experts, because the Washington ideologues who planned the war were living in a fantasy.

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By Michelle Goldberg

July 18, 2003 | The Pentagon hawks who planned for postwar Iraq assumed American troops would be welcomed with flowers and gratitude. They assumed Saddam's regime could be decapitated but the body of the state left intact, to be administered by American advisors and handpicked Iraqis. They assumed that other countries, despite their opposition to the war, would come around once they saw how right America was, and would assist in Iraq's reconstruction.

The war's architects placed such unyielding faith in their assumptions that when they all turned out to be wrong, there was no Plan B.