On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:40:58 GMT, "John R. Carroll"
wrote:

wrote:
Cliff wrote:

Found those "WMDs" yet?

[excerpt]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/694668.html

Hussein made the above statement at a meeting with leaders of the
Ba'ath Party, said Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Chemical
Ali, to American interrogators. Ali was in charge of using chemical
weapons against the Kurdish forces at the end of the 1980s.

I kind of forget .. what were the UN's inspectors saying? Just
before the shrubbie tossed them out just before the UN lifted the
sanctions (or was about to)?

Cliff, do you actually trust
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

This just in
For all the talk about Bush's bubble, one has to wonder about the
translucent sphere in which Chris Matthews has been hanging out. The
president's job approval ratings have been in the negative range for almost
a year now, but Matthews -- who spends five nights a week talking about
politics on "Hardball" -- seems to be shocked by the news.

As Media Matters notes, Matthews was proclaiming as late as November that
"everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs,
maybe on the left." News to the contrary seemed to sink in for Matthews
earlier this week, when he had to come to terms with a Wall Street
Journal/NBC News Poll that found that 50 percent of the public has a
"somewhat negative" or "very negative" view of the president. Matthews read
the poll results on the air and declared himself "amazed."

Now, it seems, he's just bewildered. As we noted Thursday, respondents in a
new Pew Research Center poll used words liked "incompetent" to describe
Bush, and Matthews says he just can't believe it. "I checked this twice," he
said on last night's show. "I couldn't believe it, but it's true --
forty-eight percent of the people responding to this poll used such words as
'incompetent,' 'idiot,' and 'liar' to describe our president. Kate O'Beirne,
what happened to respect?"

We've got a different question to ask: What ever happened to having a clue?

-- Tim Grieve--

If only Gunner knew ....
--
Cliff