6/17    May was the least deadly month for US troops in Iraq since the war
        began.
        \_ Meanwhile, we are losing the war in Afghanistan, where Osama
           really is.
           \_ Shhhhhhhh!
           \_ No, the violence continues there, but the casualties in Iraq have
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11/5    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071106/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_pakistan
        'WASHINGTON - President Bush urged Pakistani President Pervez
        Musharraf on Monday to "restore democracy as quickly as possible,"
        choosing mild disappointment over punishment or more pointed rhetoric
        to react to the declaration of emergency rule in anti-terror ally
        Pakistan...Bush did not speak directly to Musharraf, a leader who
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12/21   Would you support selling Israel down the river if that helped solve
        the Iran and Iraq problems?
        \_ there are no problem in Iran.  It's like trying to prevent your
           teenage daughter from having sex.  You just have to accept the
           reality.
        \_ In this fantasy world, would I get a pony too?
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10/30   http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/zawahiri_was_ta.html
        (perhaps not a) Surprise!
        - Pakistani major general says Pakistani attack helos fired 4-5
        missiles into terrorist training school, killing ~80, and that no women
        or children were at the school during the attack.
        - U.S. major says assault was "completely done by the Pakistani
	...

10/30   http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/zawahiri_was_ta.html
        Surprise!
        - Pakistani major general says Pakistani attack helos fired 4-5
        missiles into terrorist training school, killing ~80, and that no women
        or children were at the school during the attack.
        - U.S. major says assault was "completely done by the Pakistani
	...

10/30   http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/zawahiri_was_ta.html
        Surprise!  In attack initially attributed to Pakistani attack helos
        on religious school which reportedly kill 80, U.S. Predator UAV(s)
        actually conducted attack.  Zawahiri, 2nd in command to Osama,
        primary target.
	...

9/21    http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/21/060921191305.ugcxd7ae.html
        Pakistani President Musharraf says, shortly after 9/11, U.S. said
        Pakistan would be bombed "back to the fucking stone age" unless it cooperated
        with the fucking U.S. in Afghanistan.  I sure remember the speech when
        Musharraf expressed his unqualified support - he sounded like a freakin
        genius.
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9/5     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1696014/posts
        http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?153297
        Pakistan signs peace agreement with pro-Taliban tribes in N Waziristan,
        with prisoner release and abandonment of some Pakistani security
        posts; Osama bin Laden not to be taken into custody as long as he does
        not disturb the local peace.
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6/19    http://csua.org/u/frw (washingtonpost.com, Dan Froomkin)
        From Ron Suskind's new book titled "The One Percent Doctrine":
        Cheney remarked that America had to deal with a new type of threat --
        what he called a "low-probability, high-impact event" ...
        "If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda
        build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty
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1/26    "There's no doubt in my mind it is legal." -GW Bush (Jan 26, 2006)
        [warrantless eavesdropping on communications, where one end is
        international and with a reasonable basis to believe there is a
        Al Qaeda link during a declared war on Al Qaeda]
        \_ Bush administration rejected an amendment offered by Mike Dewine
           in 2002 that would have made this legal because the Justice Dept.
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1/21    "India must not allow itself to be dragooned into joining the
         Washington-led nuclear lynch mob against Iran," The Hindu, one
         of India's most influential newspapers, cautioned Thursday.
         http://tinyurl.com/baa48
         Iran Sanctions Could Drive Oil Past $100
         Looks like US and Bush admin addiction to oil is compromising
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