WTF Is It Now?!?

'Time running out' for the Bush Cartel?
Top Pentagon advisers have warned that time is running out for the United States to establish law and order in Iraq, where another US soldier was killed by a bomb on Friday. The overall US death toll since the war began is now higher than the total US fatalities in the 1991 Gulf War.

A senior advisory team has called for urgent action in the next three months to provide security, basic services and political and economic opportunity for the Iraqi people. The team says that, without rapid change, there is a growing potential for real chaos.


Time running out for the poodle?
HAKONE, Japan (AFP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair dramatically refused to say whether he might quit over the alleged "suicide" of David Kelly, the former UN arms inspector at the center of allegations that Downing Street misused intelligence and exaggerated the threat of Saddam Hussein.

Caught out at the start of an East Asia tour by the worst crisis in his six years in power, a visibly exhausted Blair said nothing when asked, point-blank, at a press conference if he had "blood on his hands" and might resign.

Instead, he stared silently out across the room full of journalists and TV cameras for several tense seconds and then with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at his side, left the room.


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