Syria Reactor Story a Diversion; But From What?

The US and Israel accused Syria on Thursday of building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korean help. There was a lot of innuendo in the press that the reactor was intended for nuclear weapons production. But AFP notes:

’ They said US intelligence had “high confidence” that the structure bombed by the Israelis was a nuclear reactor, “medium confidence” that the North Koreans were involved in building it, and “low confidence” that plutonium from it was for nuclear weapons.  Read more 

Sid is one of my heroes, I really sort of worship the guy, but this piece provokes a different reaction in me than it will in many people. Or rather, many of some people.

From the get go, the Bush administration has frustrated me because a small group of people, people who weren’t really that bright or courageous, decided that fantasy was more important than reality. Now, normally I don’t care if other people want to smoke crack all day or otherwise avoid reality with aplomb. But when those people are the gatekeepers to which policies in government are applied, we have a problem.  Read more 

No, this post is not mistitled.

n October, police raided a trailer home which doubled as a meth factory - and they stumbled across a treasure trove of nuclear secrets that had somehow escaped from Los Alamos. As CBS reported:

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When you come to think of it, that “doctrine” explains a lot more than just the crazed way the Bush administration has run its “war on terror.”

Take, for instance, yesterday’s bombshell announcement by Santorum and Hoekstra that WMD, (buried artillery shells armed with some sort of poison gas), have been discovered in Iraq after all.

Take, for another for instance, some examples of the right wing response to the two Senators joint press conference.

Only one explanation makes sense; these are people who operate within an assumption that if a given fact, idea, interpretation, or opinion has a one percent possibility that there is any truth to it, it is, thereby, true, and all further discussion must be devoted to excavating the implications of its given truth.  Read more