First, if you haven't read WaPo's review of Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine, you should. In amongst the sickening information that they tortured a mentally ill functionary in Al Qaeda to get (completely bogus) intel, there's the fact that Bush was warned in advance that the coalition didn't have the troops to capture Bin Laden when they had ( Read more... )

... much of the civilized world that isn't us, (but i repeat myself), is flipping out because a leaked memo says Blair had to talk Bush down from bombing Al-Jazeera headquarters in Qatar. (And Blair's government seems more leaktastic than the Ken Starr investigation... not that I'm complaining.) And apparently the face-saving spin is: "OMG, he ( Read more... )