We are so kicking the bucket, as a "barrage of rockets" killed three more US soldiers. 12 Americans have now been killed in Iraq in the past three days alone.
As things continue to go remarkably well, a car bomb exploded in the Indiana market-like Baghdad today, killing eight people and wounding 41.
The archbishop of Mosul, kidnapped last month in Iraq, has been found dead.
Severed fingers of five kidnapped Western contractors were reportedly sent to U.S. government officials, giving the men's relatives hope that they are still alive and shedding light on why they haven't written home recently.
In a related story, Crooks & Liars eports that the White House will not be releasing that damaging Pentagon report that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda:
The Bush Accountability Administration apparently does not want a U.S. military study to get any attention. This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report’s release and will no longer make the report available online.
The report was to be posted on the Joint Forces Command website this afternoon, followed by a background briefing with the authors. No more. The report will be made available only to those who ask for it.
It won’t be emailed to reporters and it won’t be posted online.
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The definition of doublethink:
"The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them . . . . To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.
Yeah, HRH, the fictional Winston Smith's words carry more reality in today's political world than the 'sage' pronouncements on the 'serious' Sunday morning political shows or the NYT -- and we all know how quickly even the guise of coherent civility drops off after that...
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