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Now here's an idea - let's send the lot of them!

Link: MyDD :: Late Night Hardball Blogging.

Yesterday on Hardball, Chris Matthews was interviewing former Cheney aide (and kool-aid connisseur) Ron Christie and former Asst. Attorney General Robert Raben on the topic of the Libby pardon when suddenly a lightbulb went off: MATTHEWS: I got an idea, I got a solution. Pardon him but send him to Iraq in uniform and put him in the front. Send him to the front, he supported the war, send him to fight it. Hey, look, a lot of guys had to go fight that war didn't do anything wrong. [snip] In the old days, the judges would take a working class kid who got in a scrape with the law and say "Jr., you want to go to jail or you wanna join the army?" They should say the same thing to Scooter Libby.

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http://harpers.org/archive/2007/06/hbc-90000237

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. But I cannot conceive any existence under heaven (which in the depths of its wisdom tolerates all sorts of things) that is more truly odious and disgusting than an impotent, helpless creature, without civil wisdom or military skill, without a consciousness of any other qualification for power but his servility to it, bloated with pride and arrogance, calling for battles which he is not to fight, contending for a violent dominion which he can never exercise, and satisfied to be himself mean and miserable, in order to render others contemptible and wretched.

Edmund Burke, “Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol,” Works of the Rt Hon Edmund Burke, vol. 2, p. 206 (1777).

Iraq Coalition Casualties

Link: Iraq Coalition Casualties.

U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD:3487

Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation:16

Total 3503

DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Jun 06, 2007

Juan Cole on Al Gore's book

Link: Informed Comment.

It is no surprise that Al Gore is attacking Bush in his new book, of course. Nor is it a surprise that Gore accuses Bush of ignoring all reasonable evidence in both making the decision to invade Iraq and in deciding to do nothing about global warming.What is important about what Gore is saying is his focus on how the pollution of America's information environment by 1) corporate media consolidation (all television news is brought to Americans by five private corporations, the CEOs of which all vote Republican) and 2) government propaganda (i.e. lies purveyed to Americans using the money and resources of Americans).