“The decision was made to keep Rumsfeld and drop Powell because if they would have kept Powell and let [the Rumsfeld team] go, that would have been tantamount to an acknowledgment of failure in Iraq and our policies there. Powell is the expendable one.” – an anonymous government official in the Washington Post. Keep the denial going, guys. Keep it going.
ONE SENTENCE: From Roger Ebert. And a good piece on NPR. That’s my summary so far of liberal outrage about the murder of Theo van Gogh. Do you think if a member of the religious right had killed a Hollywood director they would have managed to say something?
YES: I meant Oprah.
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