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	<title>Comments on: Mark Schauer Condemns Bush&#8217;s and Walberg&#8217;s Fear-Mongering</title>
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		<title>By: MartyDidier</title>
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		<dc:creator>MartyDidier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Mmmm…  Another link for you to look at.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Continuity of Government &amp; The “ENDGAME” Scenario&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2008/04/continuity-of-government-endgame.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://antifascist-calling.blo.....dgame.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are many links to review however the landscape is constantly changing.  Usually the best is the latest since it’s a collection of past effort.  Please Enjoy…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marty Didier&lt;br /&gt;
Northbrook, IL&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mmmm…  Another link for you to look at.</p>
<p><strong>Continuity of Government &amp; The “ENDGAME” Scenario</strong><br />
<a href="http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2008/04/continuity-of-government-endgame.html" rel="nofollow">http://antifascist-calling.blo&#8230;..dgame.html</a></p>
<p>There are many links to review however the landscape is constantly changing.  Usually the best is the latest since it’s a collection of past effort.  Please Enjoy…</p>
<p>Marty Didier<br />
Northbrook, IL</p>
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		<title>By: MartyDidier</title>
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		<dc:creator>MartyDidier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Hmmm said:&lt;br /&gt;
“So Marty. Baby. You seem to know what the Really Big Coin is that’s gonna drop. So spill already!”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From what I know, there are many coins and some have already dropped.  The big one is a White House Coup by a similar group who tried in 1933.  But for reasons I can not discuss, the Coup is having trouble although we may end up having to live with a lot of crap from their attempt for years.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An important side note is that the results of the 1933 Coup produced little if any consequences for those involved.  Point blank, they get all of them nor did they take care of justice correctly.  My family was laudnering money for the Iran/Contra affair in the 80’s.  Look who got blamed and what happened to them.  Same as the 1933 Coup, little if any consequences paid and few were brought to justice.  So here we are again, only this time there’s more than 7000 people dead or murdered depending upon how you look at it and thousands harmed all for money and to set a path for Dictatorship.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was told the Coup was a long term process taking years to setup the Government for a moment where we have a day called “The Change”  The Change would be when the Dictatorship was imposed and the Prisons or Detention Camps would start up.  I was personally warned that if I talk to anyone about this that I would be setup and thrown into a Mental Ward.  Or even worse, be set up for someone elses murder and executed similar to what was happening in Texas at the time.  Bush was the Texas Governor at the time.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Change would be triggered by the collapse of our economy thought by the family to be started by a collapse of the Housing/Loan Market.  If you look at our economy and what is happening to our dollar, everything appears to be in the starting point of a tailspin.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What funds the Coup is the sale of Drugs that pays for “Black Op’s” which supports the changes for the Coup. The “Drug system” is absolutely enormous and is complete with laundromats, protection systems for the laundromats and much more.  I was told that “corruption” protects and guarantees safe passage from point of origin all the way to each destination.  A lot was discussed about Colombia and it’s easier to point you to look at what is currently happening in that area.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The laundromat in my area which the family is directly involved has a small army of people involved.  The family braged about being a CIA Asset as they have been involved since “The Dirty War” later 70’s.  This comment came about from me questioning my brother-in-law about why they choose to do such a risky venture.  He felt they wouldn’t ever be touched AND he said that the Banks from the 1933 Coup never were touched.  He said there are far too many people able to protect the others if something were to happen. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can’t run a wide scale drug system without special security and credit checking systems either.  This also exists and no one is going to believe it either.  The Chicago papers seem to be protecting those in higher places because they run from getting involved and block other attempts.  I was told in the 80’s and 90’s that both papers have people placed in special places and this seems to be true.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Along with my family are the DuPonts who I was introduced to one while married.  They were discussed in this latest article released yesterday at MadCow.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;‘Hyena Pack’ Owned DC9 Busted in Mexico&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.madcowprod.com/04092008.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.madcowprod.com/04092008.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There’s been other articles written that more than suggest a Coup is in the works.  I’ve been talking about what I know for a years as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Silent Coup - How a nation ruled by law, becomes a nation ruled by men&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_liza_per_080228_the_silent_coup___ho.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.opednews.com/articl.....p___ho.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are reasons why I can’t talk about the credit and Bank areas more than I have already.  I’m able to but I can’t right now - sorry.  But what should be remembered is that the family started in the later 70’s and still are involved to this day doing the same things.  Hence, being a CIA Asset seems to have some meaning for the current moment that is until the FBI functions correctly.  Here I have a lot more to talk about but for this time I can’t — sorry.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The drug system is important to the Coups existance.  It’s huge and involves a great deal spanding over many countries.  Notice what is currently happening in Colombia and the Colombian President’s pursuit of getting more money from us, plus don’t dismiss what he was known for before becoming President.  FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds explanation explains a great deal and who is involved at the top.  Some of these names were favorite topics within the family along with explanations seem to sum up more of a complete criminal system.  Once the drug system is broken up, the Coup will have to look elsewhere for finanical support.  This appears to be currently starting to happen and to me is a good sign.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is a whole lot more Mmmm but maybe it could be for another time.  Hope this helps?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marty Didier&lt;br /&gt;
Northbrook, IL&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm said:<br />
“So Marty. Baby. You seem to know what the Really Big Coin is that’s gonna drop. So spill already!”</p>
<p>From what I know, there are many coins and some have already dropped.  The big one is a White House Coup by a similar group who tried in 1933.  But for reasons I can not discuss, the Coup is having trouble although we may end up having to live with a lot of crap from their attempt for years.  </p>
<p>An important side note is that the results of the 1933 Coup produced little if any consequences for those involved.  Point blank, they get all of them nor did they take care of justice correctly.  My family was laudnering money for the Iran/Contra affair in the 80’s.  Look who got blamed and what happened to them.  Same as the 1933 Coup, little if any consequences paid and few were brought to justice.  So here we are again, only this time there’s more than 7000 people dead or murdered depending upon how you look at it and thousands harmed all for money and to set a path for Dictatorship.  </p>
<p>I was told the Coup was a long term process taking years to setup the Government for a moment where we have a day called “The Change”  The Change would be when the Dictatorship was imposed and the Prisons or Detention Camps would start up.  I was personally warned that if I talk to anyone about this that I would be setup and thrown into a Mental Ward.  Or even worse, be set up for someone elses murder and executed similar to what was happening in Texas at the time.  Bush was the Texas Governor at the time.  </p>
<p>The Change would be triggered by the collapse of our economy thought by the family to be started by a collapse of the Housing/Loan Market.  If you look at our economy and what is happening to our dollar, everything appears to be in the starting point of a tailspin.  </p>
<p>What funds the Coup is the sale of Drugs that pays for “Black Op’s” which supports the changes for the Coup. The “Drug system” is absolutely enormous and is complete with laundromats, protection systems for the laundromats and much more.  I was told that “corruption” protects and guarantees safe passage from point of origin all the way to each destination.  A lot was discussed about Colombia and it’s easier to point you to look at what is currently happening in that area.</p>
<p>The laundromat in my area which the family is directly involved has a small army of people involved.  The family braged about being a CIA Asset as they have been involved since “The Dirty War” later 70’s.  This comment came about from me questioning my brother-in-law about why they choose to do such a risky venture.  He felt they wouldn’t ever be touched AND he said that the Banks from the 1933 Coup never were touched.  He said there are far too many people able to protect the others if something were to happen. </p>
<p>You can’t run a wide scale drug system without special security and credit checking systems either.  This also exists and no one is going to believe it either.  The Chicago papers seem to be protecting those in higher places because they run from getting involved and block other attempts.  I was told in the 80’s and 90’s that both papers have people placed in special places and this seems to be true.  </p>
<p>Along with my family are the DuPonts who I was introduced to one while married.  They were discussed in this latest article released yesterday at MadCow.<br />
<strong>‘Hyena Pack’ Owned DC9 Busted in Mexico</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/04092008.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.madcowprod.com/04092008.html</a></p>
<p>There’s been other articles written that more than suggest a Coup is in the works.  I’ve been talking about what I know for a years as well.</p>
<p><strong>The Silent Coup &#8211; How a nation ruled by law, becomes a nation ruled by men</strong> <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_liza_per_080228_the_silent_coup___ho.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.opednews.com/articl&#8230;..p___ho.htm</a></p>
<p>There are reasons why I can’t talk about the credit and Bank areas more than I have already.  I’m able to but I can’t right now &#8211; sorry.  But what should be remembered is that the family started in the later 70’s and still are involved to this day doing the same things.  Hence, being a CIA Asset seems to have some meaning for the current moment that is until the FBI functions correctly.  Here I have a lot more to talk about but for this time I can’t — sorry.  </p>
<p>The drug system is important to the Coups existance.  It’s huge and involves a great deal spanding over many countries.  Notice what is currently happening in Colombia and the Colombian President’s pursuit of getting more money from us, plus don’t dismiss what he was known for before becoming President.  FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds explanation explains a great deal and who is involved at the top.  Some of these names were favorite topics within the family along with explanations seem to sum up more of a complete criminal system.  Once the drug system is broken up, the Coup will have to look elsewhere for finanical support.  This appears to be currently starting to happen and to me is a good sign.</p>
<p>There is a whole lot more Mmmm but maybe it could be for another time.  Hope this helps?</p>
<p>Marty Didier<br />
Northbrook, IL</p>
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		<title>By: rapt</title>
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		<dc:creator>rapt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;A lot.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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		<title>By: skdadl</title>
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		<dc:creator>skdadl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Yes, except I don’t understand why the trio would have any interest in defending the others. Sheesh: if you turned out to be smarter than the others  were, why not recognize that? It worries me a bit because it makes me wonder what else is there that we don’t know about.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, except I don’t understand why the trio would have any interest in defending the others. Sheesh: if you turned out to be smarter than the others  were, why not recognize that? It worries me a bit because it makes me wonder what else is there that we don’t know about.</p>
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		<title>By: SparklestheIguana</title>
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		<dc:creator>SparklestheIguana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah, I guess that does ring a vague bell.  That little trio is so hellbent on trying to persuade us that everyone in the Bush WH, DoD, and DoJ only wanted to protect America.  Everything they did was only to protect America.  Every night they lay awake, the Cheneys, Addingtons, Libbys, the Yoos and Bybees and Haynes, envisioning future terrorist attacks and thinking of ways to protect America.  Because the biggest executive power grab in the history of America was &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; foremost on their minds, no sir.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yeah, I guess that does ring a vague bell.  That little trio is so hellbent on trying to persuade us that everyone in the Bush WH, DoD, and DoJ only wanted to protect America.  Everything they did was only to protect America.  Every night they lay awake, the Cheneys, Addingtons, Libbys, the Yoos and Bybees and Haynes, envisioning future terrorist attacks and thinking of ways to protect America.  Because the biggest executive power grab in the history of America was <strong>NOT</strong> foremost on their minds, no sir.</p>
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		<title>By: skdadl</title>
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		<dc:creator>skdadl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I’m sorry to tell you this, Sparkles, and when I say I’m sorry, I really mean that I am sorry, but that is where Goldsmith, Comey, and Philbin have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E7DB1E39F932A35752C1A9619C8B63&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;for a while,&lt;/a&gt; along with Ashcroft:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Officials also released a letter to the committee this week from former Attorney General John Ashcroft and three former aides urging Congress to approve the immunity provision. Immunity, the letter said, ”provides a just and fair protection for companies that allegedly responded to a call for assistance from the president in a time of national crisis.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The letter was also signed by three former aides to Mr. Ashcroft, each raising concerns about the legality of the eavesdropping. The signers were former Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, Jack L. Goldsmith and Patrick F. Philbin. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All those nice young men. I don’t understand it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m sorry to tell you this, Sparkles, and when I say I’m sorry, I really mean that I am sorry, but that is where Goldsmith, Comey, and Philbin have been <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E7DB1E39F932A35752C1A9619C8B63&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss" rel="nofollow">for a while,</a> along with Ashcroft:</p>
<blockquote><p>Officials also released a letter to the committee this week from former Attorney General John Ashcroft and three former aides urging Congress to approve the immunity provision. Immunity, the letter said, ”provides a just and fair protection for companies that allegedly responded to a call for assistance from the president in a time of national crisis.”</p>
<p>The letter was also signed by three former aides to Mr. Ashcroft, each raising concerns about the legality of the eavesdropping. The signers were former Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, Jack L. Goldsmith and Patrick F. Philbin. </p>
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<p>All those nice young men. I don’t understand it.</p>
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		<title>By: LabDancer</title>
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		<dc:creator>LabDancer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Two things:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It continues to bug me how the Bush/Cheney administration is able to generate any degree of support for the notion that intercepting &amp; warehousing every phone call &amp; email message American citizens have does results in any actionable intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Right from the outset conversation is by far the most idiomatically &amp; personally nuanced form of communication, and thus the most obscure form of intelligence. Even a complete forgery is more amenable to being analyzed down to something meaningful, the Ledeen fictions on the Iraq-Niger alleged deal being a pretty typical example. Ive been involved in several dozen major criminal enterprise prosecutions, either for the government or in defending someone, with data bases of wiretapped communications ranging from a handful to a upwards of a half-million, and not one of them succeeded in securing a conviction for anything without at least one other inherently more compelling form of evidence concerning which the evidence from the wiretaps at highest worked to eliminate or reduce doubts as to the motives of those involved in doing the things the other evidence proved they had done or were planning on doing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That is, the only effective use of wiretapped material in the setting of criminal litigation is extremely narrow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ive seen a few instances where wiretapping intelligence led to discovery of other more important &amp; definitive evidence, but in each such case the wiretapping was done very narrowly, with a focus on at most a handful of persons whose activities were already such to attract attention, &amp; with the benefit of the wiretapped evidence coloring the content of the communications to allow for follow-up. Broad, aimless, ”non-minimized” wiretapping invariably will come up with SOMETHING [the revelations on Gov Spitzer being typical, regardless of whether that was actually how the investigation got onto his hobby], but the broader and less minimized the program, the more the chance of that approach yielding something actionable approach the order of odds of it being found out without wiretapping even existing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Life is full of risk &amp; will always be so. For the government to spend billions on technology aimed at scouring all electronic communications to sift through it all with machinery incapable of applying idiomatic discriminators means upping the odds of finding out some impending plot on the scale which the Bush-Cheney administration uses for advertising purposes numerically not exponentially, as if it were rational for you to spend the equity in your house to buy tickets in a nationwide lottery.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Second:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The design of the plot that led to the 9/11 tragedies was in large part a function of its audacity, on a scale which even Osama Bin Laden has both said &amp; implied exceeded his grandiose expectations. Even from reading just Lawrence Wright’s its clear ObL understands the real power in that event lay in promoting the kind of insensible paranoia which after all is the aim of acts of terrorism. So what in hell value in draining the national treasury &amp; stripping out huge features of what it means to be an American in an absurdly-long-odds effort to look for something that isn’t going to happen anyway?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yesterday &amp; today the punditocracy has engaged in relative weighting of the latest evidence that suggests Sen McCain has not bothered to even try to understand the difference between Sunni Muslims &amp; Shia Muslims, against Sen Obama saying ”Iraq” in reference to a foreign influence on ”Iraq” when he clearly meant, as the witnesses readily recognized, ”Iran”. No matter how one wishes to spin those mistakes, there is no excuse is available to someone like Rep Walberg who has penned or approved or allowed his name to appended to a deliberately composed lie. That is a sure sign of having sold out his oath of office or possessing an intelligence which is so low it would disqualify him from any public service beyond gathering up hotdog wrappers in a park.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two things:</p>
<p>First: </p>
<p>It continues to bug me how the Bush/Cheney administration is able to generate any degree of support for the notion that intercepting &amp; warehousing every phone call &amp; email message American citizens have does results in any actionable intelligence.</p>
<p>Right from the outset conversation is by far the most idiomatically &amp; personally nuanced form of communication, and thus the most obscure form of intelligence. Even a complete forgery is more amenable to being analyzed down to something meaningful, the Ledeen fictions on the Iraq-Niger alleged deal being a pretty typical example. Ive been involved in several dozen major criminal enterprise prosecutions, either for the government or in defending someone, with data bases of wiretapped communications ranging from a handful to a upwards of a half-million, and not one of them succeeded in securing a conviction for anything without at least one other inherently more compelling form of evidence concerning which the evidence from the wiretaps at highest worked to eliminate or reduce doubts as to the motives of those involved in doing the things the other evidence proved they had done or were planning on doing.</p>
<p>That is, the only effective use of wiretapped material in the setting of criminal litigation is extremely narrow.</p>
<p>Ive seen a few instances where wiretapping intelligence led to discovery of other more important &amp; definitive evidence, but in each such case the wiretapping was done very narrowly, with a focus on at most a handful of persons whose activities were already such to attract attention, &amp; with the benefit of the wiretapped evidence coloring the content of the communications to allow for follow-up. Broad, aimless, ”non-minimized” wiretapping invariably will come up with SOMETHING [the revelations on Gov Spitzer being typical, regardless of whether that was actually how the investigation got onto his hobby], but the broader and less minimized the program, the more the chance of that approach yielding something actionable approach the order of odds of it being found out without wiretapping even existing.</p>
<p>Life is full of risk &amp; will always be so. For the government to spend billions on technology aimed at scouring all electronic communications to sift through it all with machinery incapable of applying idiomatic discriminators means upping the odds of finding out some impending plot on the scale which the Bush-Cheney administration uses for advertising purposes numerically not exponentially, as if it were rational for you to spend the equity in your house to buy tickets in a nationwide lottery.</p>
<p>Second:</p>
<p>The design of the plot that led to the 9/11 tragedies was in large part a function of its audacity, on a scale which even Osama Bin Laden has both said &amp; implied exceeded his grandiose expectations. Even from reading just Lawrence Wright’s its clear ObL understands the real power in that event lay in promoting the kind of insensible paranoia which after all is the aim of acts of terrorism. So what in hell value in draining the national treasury &amp; stripping out huge features of what it means to be an American in an absurdly-long-odds effort to look for something that isn’t going to happen anyway?</p>
<p>Yesterday &amp; today the punditocracy has engaged in relative weighting of the latest evidence that suggests Sen McCain has not bothered to even try to understand the difference between Sunni Muslims &amp; Shia Muslims, against Sen Obama saying ”Iraq” in reference to a foreign influence on ”Iraq” when he clearly meant, as the witnesses readily recognized, ”Iran”. No matter how one wishes to spin those mistakes, there is no excuse is available to someone like Rep Walberg who has penned or approved or allowed his name to appended to a deliberately composed lie. That is a sure sign of having sold out his oath of office or possessing an intelligence which is so low it would disqualify him from any public service beyond gathering up hotdog wrappers in a park.</p>
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		<title>By: SparklestheIguana</title>
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		<dc:creator>SparklestheIguana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I just noticed Jack Goldsmith wrote in Slate that we need telecom immunity. Wtf, Jack!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just noticed Jack Goldsmith wrote in Slate that we need telecom immunity. Wtf, Jack!</p>
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		<title>By: klynn</title>
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		<dc:creator>klynn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;And more from Juan Cole today:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the US in Iraq is not the little boy with his finger in the dyke. Maybe we are workers with jackhammers instructed to make the hole in the dyke much more huge.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.juancole.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.juancole.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And more from Juan Cole today:</p>
<blockquote><p>Maybe the US in Iraq is not the little boy with his finger in the dyke. Maybe we are workers with jackhammers instructed to make the hole in the dyke much more huge.</p>
<p>Just something to think about.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.juancole.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.juancole.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: skdadl</title>
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		<dc:creator>skdadl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;O/T and several days late, but I just watched the 60 Minutes interview with Feith, and there is a priceless moment about halfway through when it becomes clear that Feith cannot remember a clear statement in his own book, the claim that the looting in Baghdad post-invasion was a direct result of too few troops. At first he says he doesn’t think he discussed troop levels. And then when the passage is read back to him, he tries “misremember.” &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He didn’t write his own book. I know you’re shocked.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O/T and several days late, but I just watched the 60 Minutes interview with Feith, and there is a priceless moment about halfway through when it becomes clear that Feith cannot remember a clear statement in his own book, the claim that the looting in Baghdad post-invasion was a direct result of too few troops. At first he says he doesn’t think he discussed troop levels. And then when the passage is read back to him, he tries “misremember.” </p>
<p>He didn’t write his own book. I know you’re shocked.</p>
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