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Buffalo News – Many U.S. arms given to Iraq are listed as missing

mparent7777: The Bob Woodward version: “The Bob Woodward version

Sidney Blumenthal

18 – 10 – 2006

The tangled story of investigative journalist Bob Woodward’s relationship with the Bush administration reveals the White House’s subtle entrapment of his form of reportage, says Sidney Blumenthal.

As soon as President Bush finished the first-year commemoration of Hurricane Katrina he turned to the fifth-year anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in order to restore his faltering popularity and set the themes for the Republican Party in the campaign for the mid-term elections on 7 November 2006.
Through a series of speeches he proclaimed that he would ‘stay the course’ in Iraq, which he conflated with his war on terror. Polls, after all, showed that his standing on Iraq was sliding while his standing on terror was steady. His effort to merge one into the other, as he had done since before the invasion, was an act of political alchemy. Speaking at a Republican fundraiser on 28 September, he proclaimed: ‘The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run.’
But on 5 October, an unimpressed Senator John Warner, Republican chairman of the armed services committee, declared that Iraq was ‘drifting sideways,’ and that if Bush’s policy was to continue it was time to ‘change the course.’
On 8 October, James A Baker III, the former secretary of state, a close associate of the elder Bush and now the chairman of the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group that will report its recommendations in early 2007 to the president, declared his support for Senator Warner’s call to ‘change the course’ – ‘Yes, absolutely. And we’re taking a look at other alternatives.’
On 10 October, a New York Times/CBS News poll reported, according to the NYT”

Crooks and Liars: “Last night Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens discussed Iraq, Bush and Kerry’s joke with Paula Zahn on The Situation Room. Following a short exchange between Paula and Christopher, in which Christopher was upset being referred to as a conservative, the conversation turned very interesting and Bush ended up being lampooned by the end of it.
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Sullivan: ‘Iraq is the foreign policy version of Katrina. This President can not handle the reality anymore.’
It is a scary day when you got Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens appearing together and they both are blasting Bush, while defending Kerry. Sullivan has become more of an outspoken critic of the Bush administration (as well as the Republican Party as a whole) lately, but Hitchens now seems like he is really changing his position on everything.”

Once Upon a Time…: The Nightmare Continues: From Central America to Iraq: “October 23, 2006
The Nightmare Continues: From Central America to Iraq
From Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily:

Death squads from the Ministry of Interior posing as Iraqi police are killing more people than ever in the capital, emerging evidence shows.

The death toll is high — in all 1,536 bodies were brought to the Baghdad morgue in September. The health ministry announced last month that it will build two new morgues in Baghdad to take their capacity to 250 bodies a day.

Many fear a government hand in more killings to come. The U.S. military has revealed that the 8th Iraqi Police Unit was responsible for the Oct. 1 kidnapping of 26 Sunni food factory workers in the Amil quarter in southwest Baghdad. The bodies of ten of them were later found in Abu Chir neighbourhood in the capital.

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General Dulaimi has been trying for long to expose the organised criminal gangs that have been controlling the ministry since its formation — a formation that was overseen by U.S. authorities.

Dulaimi says he does not believe that the Shia Badr organisation, a large, well-armed and funded militia, has complete control over his ministry. But most residents of Baghdad believe that Badr has complete control over the Baghd”

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Crooks and Liars: “Emailer Doug: Rush Limbaugh today accused Michael J. Fox, actor and Parkinson’s Disease victim, of deliberately going off of his meds to appear on camera with exaggerated symptoms of his disease for dramatic effect. Fox appeared in a recent Clair McHaskill (D-MO) Senate campaign ad, touting the need for stem cell research. Limbaugh even goes so far as to accuse Fox of faking his symptoms all together.

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