In the News
06 June 2008 6:00 am by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
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It’s Pakistan, stupid. Seriously, how many times do I have to write that?
Al Qaida’s claim Thursday that it was behind this week’s bombing of the Danish
embassy here has exposed the deadly grip of terrorism on Pakistan and is likely
to strain U.S. relations with the country, analysts said.Pakistan is currently negotiating peace deals with Taliban extremists based
in its northwest tribal territory, a policy that Washington already has criticized.
The evidence of al Qaida activity in the heart of the country could further
undermine U.S. confidence in Pakistan’s new anti-terror approach. … ..
That’s bad, but this is really bad. Bush is basically blackmailing the Iraqi government, according to The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn, trying to force them to become permanent hosts of our military. Juan Cole weighs in.
Oh, and super duper breaking news! The Senate Intelligence Committee finally found that Bush exaggerated intelligence on Iraq on the way to war! The picture at the link is priceless.
A long-delayed Senate report endorsed by Democrats and some Republicans has concluded that President George W. Bush and his aides built the public case for war against Iraq by exaggerating available intelligence and by ignoring disagreements among spy agencies about Iraq’s weapons programs and Saddam Hussein’s links to Al Qaeda.
The report was released Thursday after years of partisan squabbling, and it marks the close of five years of investigations by the Senate Intelligence Committee into the use, abuse and faulty assessments of intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Wow. Who knew? Not John McCain.
What are you reading in the paper, on the blogs, or hearing from the talking
heads? Anything interesting happen lately on "Morning Joe"? Got links?
Share ‘em.
Open thread.
