Someone at the Pentagon removed any mention about the fact that Major Alan Rogors was gay from Wikipedia. And they were so inept at doing it, that they did it from an actual Pentagon IP address and not a local internet cafe, for example.

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Quoted: Bill talks to Michael Ware who is still reporting for CNN in Baghdad. I disagree with many of Ware's points. One, we've already got blood on our hands for go...

More Code Pink hilarity.

Quoted: And this week, which will see the fifth anniversary of the start of the war, Code Pink plans to "step up the pressure," as its leader Medea Benjamin said. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Code Pink has a full roster of activities planned for the week, including: yoga every morning at 8:30; organic potlucks every noon; nightly movies and popcorn; a bike ride around Berkeley on Tuesday; an open-mike musical jam on Wednesday; and a 'send-off' to the Marines on Friday, when protesters will bring suitcases and pink berets for traveling." How the Bush administration will be able to resist is anyone's guess.

Quoted: And Clinton will swiftly realize that the most potent antidote to conservative criticism of her at home will be buttressing her military image, working the Thatcher thing, constructing an Iron Lady persona that will both appeal to her white ethnic base and keep the Republicans at bay. She will no more withdraw troops from Iraq than John McCain will. Anything that could make her look weak - and it's Hannity and O'Reilly to whom she will defer in this perception game - she will resist.

One reason why "getting out of Iraq" is not simply the morally superior position. Staying isn't either, of course; there are no good options.

Quoted: It is not just women who live in fear. Professionals such as engineers, doctors and scientists have been dragged from their homes and murdered.

Quoted: Lying in an election is basically a way of saying: we know how you ought to vote, and if we can't get you to vote that way by presenting you with facts and arguments, or even with truthful but emotionally shaded appeals, then we will get you to vote our way by telling you things that are not true. It's hard to see what could be more profoundly disrespectful of people's right to decide for themselves whom to vote for.