Wonderful. "Bring your daughter to war" day in Iraq. Love the Onion.

Quoted: Girls between the ages of 8 and 14 spent the day helping their parents fight insurgents and defuse mines.

Seymour Hersh's piece in "The New Yorker" regarding the government ramp-up to possible action in Iran. Scary stuff to think that this might be happening all over again before Bush leaves office.

Quoted: The Administration’s plan for Iran.

An op-ed piece in the USA Today by economist Bruce Wydick.

Quoted: Our inability to think clearly about sunk costs is impeding our ability to make clear decisions about our involvement in Iraq. Failing to correctly identify sunk costs (those that are irretrievable), and deal with them properly, biases our decision-making in favor of prolonging the war.

An announcement: "Please keep fighting for our rights to freedom of speech, just make sure not to use it."

Quoted: The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.

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Quoted: "The reputation of the Army is maintained on many fronts, and no one fights harder on its behalf than our young soldiers. We must allow them access to the fight," Robbins wrote. "To silence the most credible voices -- those at the spear's edge -- and to disallow them this function is to handicap ourselves on a vital, very real battlefield."

A stunning and very worthy piece by Bill Moyers on media's failure to do it's job on the ramp up to war against Iraq. A very powerful piece if for no other reason to see the level to which Gearoge W. Bush's "press conferences" were scripted - down to the softball questions from reporters.

A blog called "Our Karl Rove: If Karl Rove was a Democrat, This is What He'd Say."

Quoted: Our Karl Rove. Kerry's Karl Rove. Presidential advisor. Democratic Strategies. Carville. Chris Matthews.

Reminds of what Borat says when addressing the rodea crowd on behalf os Kazakhstan:

"We support your war of terror!"

Quoted: In this open letter to C-SPAN's CEO, I submit my purchase order for 6,251 congressional hearings and assert my fair use rights.

A lie within a lie within a lie. George W. Bush admits to a room of reporters that he lied to them last week about Donald Rumsfeld staying until the end of his term. His answer is complete hornswoggle and illuminates the regard he holds for the truth (i.e. none). What nice Christian values he has...

Quoted: Today, he announced Rumsfeld is resigning and being replaced by former CIA Director Robert Gates. At the press conference, Bush said that “the only way to answer that question, and get it on to another question, was to give you [the reporters] that answer.” Bush admitted that he had talked to Rumsfeld about resigning and was actively searching for his replacement at the time.