Wedge of Spite AND Carton of Hate
I’m currently offline, driving (well, riding) back up from LA on I-5, but I downloaded a lot of material to go over on our way up. I haven’t had a chance to follow the links on these articles, but the excerpts are brilliant.
First of all, for any of you who haven’t checked out Tom Tomorrow’s Blog, I highly recommend it as daily reading. The two posts from this weekend which I found particularly interesting:
The discovery of the hidden vial of C. botulinum Okra B, which was revealed in an Oct. 2 interim report by chief U.S. weapons hunter David Kay, was highlighted in speeches by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and other senior administration officials as proof that President Saddam Hussein’s government maintained an illicit bio-weapons program before the war.
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The single vial of botulinum B had been stored in an Iraqi scientist’s kitchen refrigerator since 1993. It appears to have been produced by a nonprofit Virginia biological resource center, the American Type Culture Collection, which legally exported botulinum and other biological material to Iraq under a Commerce Department license in the late 1980s. L.A. Times writer Roger Ailes
There’s also a link to an interesting article talking about Bush Sr’s split from W’s refocusing on Iraq:
Since the current President Bush veered away from the real war against terrorism in Afghanistan and went a’venturing in Iraq, much to his father’s dismay, just about everybody close to Washington politics has known of the policy schism between father and son.
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The ideological rift between father and son has been growing ever since George W. began focusing on Iraq and, with that obsession, proposed “theories” of unilateralism (America needs room in the world) and preemption (kill even your perceived enemy before he kills you).
So how did Father Bush show his malcontent? He decided to award his 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service to…Ted Kennedy (who has become one of the most vocal critics of W’s war policy)
Finally, “The more you watch, the less you know” links to a Washington Post article about a study done which found that people who watch “Fair and Balanced” Fox News are much more likely to believe some of the more popular hallucinations out there.
Keep it up Tom! Everyone should go out and order his new book and show our support.
