I find it interesting that the “newspaper of record,” the New York Times has the story of the “likely” new Iraqi Prime Minister in the Washington section of the paper rather than in the International section.
New to Blogroll
Please take a moment to check out our outstanding new blogrollees: Lew Rockwell, Kevin Michael Grace, Skippy, and Blog Left. Now that’s what I call “fair & balanced”!
“Israbluf” leads to one state
Aron Trauring on “Israbluf” and why a two state solution for Israel and Palestine is likely impossible:
In an earlier post I talked about how Sharon’s unilateral withdrawel plan is an example of “Israbluf” – viz. the extraordinary capacity for Israeli governments to say one thing and do the opposite. Meron Benvinisti points out that while Bush and Sharon talk about “two states,” eveything they are doing guarantees that there will be one binational state in Israel/Palestine.
Of course, the demographic dilemma of the one-state solution means that Israel will no longer be a Jewish state.
NYT’s Mea Culpa?
Jack Shafer says the New York Times is planning to “reassess its pre-Iraq War coverage, particularly its coverage of weapons of mass destruction.” The Times might actually apologize for printing the drool Judith “Kneepads” Miller swilled from the likes of Mylroie and Chalabi. Unfortunately, that won’t bring back the 10,000+ dead Iraqis or 800-odd dead Americans whose blood, at least in part, is on the hands of the war cheerleaders and useful idiots like the NY Times’ Miller.
Poll: Americans are angry
According to this new poll, the Bush Administration has managed to piss off just about everyone.
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds the sharpest change is in anger. As the war began, 30 percent of Americans were angry about it; today, asked about the situation in Iraq, 57 percent are angry — almost twice as many. Anger is highest — 70 percent — among the roughly half of Americans who think that, given its costs versus its benefits, the war was not worth fighting.
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Some of the changes from March 2003 have occurred across groups. Men are 24 points more likely to be angry now; the change among women is about the same — up 29 points. Anger is up by 26 points among Democrats, and also by 21 points among Republicans (and by 29 points among independents). And it’s up by 20 points among war supporters, as well as by 21 points among war opponents.Other changes do show more differences among groups. Hopefulness has dropped by 22 points among women, compared with 14 points among men; and by 24 points among Democrats, compared with 11 points among Republicans. Pride has fallen farther among men than among women, and farther among Democrats than among Republicans.
A Little Something for the Environmentalists
WTF is the U.S. Dept. of the Interior doing supervising Iraqi prisons? Who says we never learn from the Europeans?