This is shocking, in a way. Or rather, you’d think racist, fear-addicted Republican types would make more of a stink over it. The money quote:

“This is gutting the criminal program. Incomprehensible. Just plain dumb,” said one recently retired top FBI official who requested anonymity.
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FBI insiders, reciting a litany of concerns, such as public corruption, violent crime and mortgage fraud, say the criminal program already has been cut to the bone.

“They are beyond looking at any body fat,” one said. “They are lopping off limbs.”

But wait, it gets worse:  Read more 

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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 

Zarqawi! He dead!

Chris’ lead-in to his opening interview with General George Casey made clear it would be all Zarqawi, all the time, and interestingly, posited the possibility that his death may have changed the “War On Terror,” although that promise was never realized.  Read more 

Remember when that document was considered our greatest strength?

What have our prisoners at Guantanamo learned about American mores?

Do you ever wonder?

How about…If at first you don’t succeed….?  Read more 

Would that it had happened in 2003. (See below the fold)

Leaving aside such transcendent luminaries of political horror as Hitler and Stalin, it is hard to imagine a more well-deserved exit from this mortal coil than Zarqawi’s.  Read more