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Out-Plamed

By ⋅ January 12, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Piper has some valuable commentary on the long-forgotten former CIA agent Valerie Plame case, in which allegations of exposing her as a “covert” agent were lobbed against journalist Robert Novak, who wrote a story about her involvement with her husband Joseph Wilson’s trip to Niger to investigate tales of uranium yellowcake supposedly purchased by Saddam [...]

Welcome 2005

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 1, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Happy New Year, Greetings and Salutations from the far side of Planet Sanitary, and Welcome to the 2005 edition of Fringe, a no-holds-barred, unhinged, ill-wind, offend-your-kin, screedy rant room, with all the finest accoutrements my visual nod to our national air carriers can offer to you, the General Public. First, some notes about the new [...]

John Kerry, Reluctant Warrior

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 4, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Via Opinion Journal, Debra Saunders finds Kerry’s explanation of Bush’s address to the UN on the eve of war in October of 2002 suspect. And no wonder, Kerry claimed Bush lied by telling the truth. IT’S AN ODD campaign gimmick, but Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., often tells voters that he was “misled” and that’s [...]

Saddam and the Death Penalty

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 22, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Stephen Pollard argues that the case for sentencing Saddam Hussein to death is also the case for capital punishment for any convicted murderer. Much as I have tried to escape this conclusion, I cannot: there are no sensible grounds on which one can argue that it is morally right to execute Saddam but not Ian [...]

Saddam Connections

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 17, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

No, no connection at all between Saddam Hussein and Al-Quaida and other terrorist groups. None whatsoever. Except for this little tidbit. It appears that the Fedayeen Saddam, a vicious paramilitary force run by Saddam’s eldest son Uday, has spearheaded the terrorist campaign using the alliances Saddam built up with terrorist groups from Ansar Al Islam [...]

More UN Irrelevance

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 17, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Iraq’s foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari blasted the UN for being the irrelevant bourgesoise organization it is in a pointed address. This is awesome: “One year ago, the Security Council was divided between those who wanted to appease Saddam Hussein and those who wanted to hold him accountable,” Zebari told the 15-nation council, which was sharply [...]

No WMD?

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 7, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

What if there really are no WMD? Daniel Pipes comes up with some intriguing conclusions. It’s not how you think. Suppose for an instant that no weapons of mass destruction ever turn up in Iraq. Of course, WMD might well still appear, but let’s imagine that intelligence estimates were completely wrong about Saddam Hussein having [...]

Iraqi Scientists Targeted

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 6, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m not saying this is proof of WMD existence in Iraq, by any means, but you gotta admit that it’s a little weird that top Iraqi scientists are being targeted if they collaborate with the US in the search for WMD. If they don’t exist, why would scientists fear for their lives for telling the [...]

Letter to the Legion

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 14, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Dear Post 45, I caught wind of and read the recent news articles being circulated back there in the states. I figured I could clarify some things for you. As usual the news media has blown some things way out of proportion. The countryside is getting more safe by the day despite all the attacks [...]

No Surprise Here

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 9, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

The headline seems ominous, but read the article. It disingenuously omits any real surprises, and indeed fails to open any watershed doors for the prescribed media assumption that the British government somehow “sexed up” a report about Saddam, Iraq, and WMD deployment. Jack Straw confirmed that he had requested a strengthening of a paragraph regarding [...]

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