Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
Sen. Kerry puzzled over the apparent lack of interest by Americans in the Iraq war and the near silence in the U.S. mass media about the so-called Downing Street Memo...
"When I go back (to Washington) on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," he said of the memo, which has not been disputed by either the British or American governments. "I think it's a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home. And it's amazing to me the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."
Although I guess I do hope to be wrong, somehow I doubt that Kerry will make too big of ruckus over this. The Downing Street Memo may not have been available during his campaign for the oval office, as least as far as we know, but the dishonesty of the Bush Administration over the invasion of Iraq was very clear by that point and I don't recall hearing Kerry say all that much about that, except for when it was in terms of how this hurt U.S. "credibility," which it rightly did.
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Whenever I think about the great military victory that was Iraq I think of all the WMD hunt that wasn't that important. More info on this via a June 2 AP story that says UN inspectors believed WMD related equipment has been removed from 109 Iraqi sites.
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"Violence in the course of the 18-month-long insurgency has claimed the lives of 12,000 Iraqis, Interior Minister Bayan Jabr said Thursday, giving the first official count for the largest category of victims of bombings, ambushes and other increasingly deadly attacks," Ellen Knickmeyer writes in today's Washington Post.
Make up your own joke as the one about the insurgents being amateurs in light of what the U.S. has done is too obvious, even for me.
