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...victim of a major intelligence blunder. A parliamentary inquiry is likely. Blair has a reputation for aggressive spinning, and if it's proved that he torqued up WMD evidence to serve his p.r. needs, he might even be pushed toward resignation. An intelligence official told the BBC that a dubious claim in the WMD dossier Blair released last September--that some of Saddam's troops were trained to deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes--was penned in at the last minute by Downing Street aides. Another charge in the dossier, that Iraq was procuring tons of uranium from Africa...
...Dubya-nomics: you help the poor by helping the rich. In particular, Bush justifies cuts in top-bracket tax rates by noting that they will benefit the small-business owner. That they will. But a lot of top-bracket taxpayers are not small-business owners. So even under the dubious premise that small-business owners are delicate flowers that must be fertilized with extra-rich tax goodies, a general tax cut for the rich is a weird way to go about...
...will surely look into the activities of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, an intelligence nodule created by Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, to provide a hawkish counterforce against the other spy services. The Pentagon's extreme threat assessment, which relied heavily on dubious reports from Iraqi defectors, carried the day in the White House...
...Dems have any hope of beating a President with 70% approval ratings they need to accomplish two major goals: Prove they will be just as strong on overseas threats and stronger on domestic issues. But they can?t just whine about Bush?s handling of the economy and the dubious merits of his tax cuts; they need a plan of their own. Most Americans don?t think the President can do much to change the economy?s direction, but the Democrats can argue there is one arena where the federal government can take bold action: Bailing out the states...
...will surely look into the activities of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, an intelligence nodule created by Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, to provide a hawkish counterforce against the other spy services. The Pentagon's extreme threat assessment, which relied heavily on dubious reports from Iraqi defectors, carried the day in the White House...