07 September 2004

Aren't the incumbents supposed to do this?

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The CIA’s Counterterrorist Center has spent more than $15 million in the past three years funding studies, reports and conferences produced by former Democratic administration officials and other critics of the Bush administration.

[…]

“The products of the [center] have a consistent theme: They criticize the Bush administration and provide ammunition for the Kerry campaign,” said one U.S. official who has read the resulting reports and studies.

Is this how the ISI got its start?

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Well, then, it's super double mega revenge!

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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia warned Israel on Tuesday that that its deadly air strike in Gaza overnight will invite a response from Hamas and that any retaliation for the killings of 14 members of the militant group will be justified.

As if any of the preceeding terror attacks didn’t have their own “justification” anyway. At what point do these rote declarations of “revenge” start to just sound silly?

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Is attendance not required either?

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A businesswoman has been banned from asking for ‘hard-working’ staff in a job ad because it discriminates against the lazy.

Beryl King was told by a Jobcentre that her advert for warehouse workers discriminated against people who were not industrious.

Don’t print advertisements discriminate against the illiterate?

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An atrocity too far?

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Events in Beslan have had an unusual and unexpected impact in Chechnya. The local population, which had largely backed the actions by Chechen terrorists, seems to have turned against them. Separatists’ families, including those of anti-Russian resistance leaders such as Maskhadov, Basayev, Umarov –who are thought to have orchestrated the Beslan attack– have publicly condemned the actions of their relatives.

This kind of thing is the only hope for Islam.

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Kerry media dependency watch

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The attacks on Kerry by the swift boat group, however, have stunned many in the camp and left Kerry frustrated that the media have not dismissed the charges as unsubstantiated.

Yes, clearly it’s not the job of the campaign staff to provide counter-evidence about such charges. The media should simply suppress such inconveniences.

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