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Vlad Putin announced today that Russian intelligence told Bush before the war that Iraq was going to attack the U.S. Why hasn’t Dubya shared this with us before? It sure would have bolstered his thin case for invading and saved him a lot of trouble in the time since. And why does the State Dept. sound so surprised to hear this? Must be a problem with interoffice mail in the White House.

As for the quality of Russian intelligence, I give you this excerpt from a Sept. 14, 2001, interview with a Russian intelligence bigshot:

Kosyakov: But I want to repeat: the fact, that the terrorists are not claiming responsibility [for the Sept. 11 attacks], indicates that they will strike again and again. Until the second stage is reached—the stage of global conflict. This is the goal of all these actions. At that point they will reveal their authorship, in order to obtain a mobilization reserve.

Q: And who is it? Bin Laden?

Kosyakov: Hardly. Sure, some conversation of his was intercepted, where someone reported about hitting two targets. That would indirectly support his involvement. But he is not the ideologue. He is too visible. Those who could organize all this are too clever, to be so visible. (emphasis mine)

Yep, sounds like they’re really on the ball in Moscow.

Bill Clinton’s memoir hit the shelves this week, pompously titled “My Life.” The philanderer-in-chief also went on CBS’ “60 Minutes” to hype the book defending his emperorship.
According to agency reports, Clinton confessed he messed around with Monica Lewinsky “for the worst possible reason. Just because I could.”
Well, that explains a lot – and not just about his sexcapades. Continue reading “Clinton proud of Kosovo”

I have been writing to the Website La Voz de Aztlan for several weeks now.

They have been the main site promoting the bogus “Iraqi Rape” photos that have been circulating around the web. These photos are actually from a bad porno produced before the invasion of Iraq, called “Baghdad Babes,” which is available on the Web.

I got no response to my many emails, but today I got a fund pitch for them, and responded to their “donation” address.

Here is their response, which speaks for itself:

We do not watch pornographic movies (ie. Baghdad Babes) like apparently you do. As far as we are concerned, the photographs are genuine. Just because Jewish pornographers are using them on their porn websites to make money does not automatically make them a fraud.

We suggest that you stop harrasing us and go about your business. People like you are probably sodomites like those who now control the LA antiwar (AnswerLA.org) movement in Los Angeles.

They are now promoting the decadent “faggot” parade in LA. You people are disgusting!

If you would like to send your comments to La Voz de Aztlan, I urge you to write them.

That’s right, this is the thousandth-and-first entry on Antiwar.com/blog. Some lower page news you may have missed this week:

*Nazi War Criminal an Early CIA Agent. Yay Greatest Generation!

*Brits Send Home 83 Pregnant Soldiers. “No, honey, you weren’t an accident — you were my ticket out of that hellhole!”

*Sit Tight, Boys! Tonga’s Coming!. We may look back on this as the turning point in the war.

*Rebuilding Ali’s Arms. A story of real heroism.

I was on welfare back in the 1960s. That was a way of showing contempt for society’s “work/progress” ethic, and if the state was willing to subsidize me while I protested the war and volunteered at the co-op, fine.

Caseworkers loved my brownies, but the joke was on me, for they never mentioned that, according to statute, as soon as I came into “property,” e.g., got a full-time job, I had to start repayment.

Ten years later, a computer match spewed me out, the state wanted its $2000 back. I’d been off welfare for eight years and gainfully employed for three.

Was their failure to inform me I was getting into debt grounds to contest? No, it wasn’t, but the “public assistance recipients’ bill of rights” guaranteed the right to a “speedy” determination of status or change thereof.

Hot damn, I had an argument! My status had changed three years ago, I had the right to plan for the future, I was about to make an offer on a house.

Well, it was a good try, more exactly, a “disingenuous” try, but who knows, had my cause been noble, maybe the judge would have taken advantage of the elasticity of the law.

It’s now another twenty-five years later and my friends at Voices in the Wilderness have been hauled into court; they wittingly violated the Iraq Sanctions Act and face $20,000 in fines. It could be the end of the road for Voices, but wait a minute, the judge has noted that the violations occurred in 1998.

Hmmmm, maybe my cause was nobler than I thought, maybe my mistake was not to have filed a countersuit.

I almost never post hate mail. The posting of hate mail on blogs is usually a passive-aggressive form of hasty generalization – Ah, look what a bunch of raving lunatics/bigots my detractors are! But occasionally I get a piece that is truly instructive, one that wrings out the very essence of a movement in a way that labored analysis never could. Allow me to share one such epistle, written in mock parody of one of my blogposts:

Blame the Jews for everything bad on this earth.

Continue reading “The Tell-Tale Hate Mail”