and then there's this

"Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

from The Times of London" quoting the now infamous "Downing St. Memo."

Where the hell are the cries for impeachment of Bush and all his little (gee, I want to say 'drooling' here, and I've no idea why.) neocon sycophants. **MY** country is sliding down a hill into intolerance, vast differences 'tween have and have not, religious litmus tests for every public job, etc., etc., along the path of so many 'future' tense scifi- some of it brilliant and terrifying. And why has not the media made a recurring sound bite out of the Shrub's comment: "This is my base: the haves and the have mores."

Occasionally, he speaks the truth, inadvertently

eat the world

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Thousands of hungry moths may hold the key to eradicating cocaine production, Colombian scientists have said, but critics say the idea could open the way for "ecological mischief" from CNN dot com

Oh My. Immediate vision of when the 'worm' runs out of cocoa leaves and begins to eat the world.