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Saturday, January 10, 2004
From the file of things that I had already figured out, CBS News writes: The Bush Administration began laying plans for an invasion of Iraq, including the use of American troops, within days of President Bush's inauguration in January of 2001 -- not eight months later after the 9/11 attacks as has been previously reported.I'm glad they are protecting each and every one of us. FWIW, Drudge says, "NYT SUNDAY: Bush 'wholly absorbed by 2004 campaign race'... Developing..." *** "This could well be the year that Izzo gets swallowed by the college basketball creature he's created. The year when the time-tested recipe fails and the cookies crumble under the weight of great expectations," Todd Schultz writes in today's Lansing State Journal "But history suggests otherwise." UPDATE: Or maybe not. I have nothing to say on this. *** On his radio show Thursday, Sean Hannity said that Madonna's endorsement of Wesley Clark wouldn't matter because Madonna's fans were too young to vote. WHY THE FUCK IS THIS GUY ON T.V. AND RADIO? *** Saddam's been given POW status. *** NBC News and MSNBC write: Secretary of State Colin Powell reversed a year of administration policy, acknowledging Thursday that he had seen no “smoking gun [or] concrete evidence” of ties between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida...Glad somebody is picking up on this. |