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...Friday, initial press reports about the book, reported that Tenet acknowledges that he made his storied remark about the prewar intelligence on Iraq being a "slam dunk," but that other U.S. officials shared his comment with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward - many months after the fact - out of context in an effort to shift the blame for the war's costs and direction from the White House to the CIA. Tenet describes watching an episode of Meet the Press in 2006 in which Vice President Cheney cited the "slam dunk" comment as a critical reason behind the U.S. invasion...
Estimated number of Iraqis who have fled Iraq because of the war--nearly 10% of the country's prewar population...
Just getting Karl Rove and other top White House officials to testify could be as important as anything they might say, since it would set a precedent of sorts as Democrats push to investigate internal White House deliberations on everything from Iraq-war contracting to the use of prewar intelligence. Bush is resisting, offering to give only limited interviews with lawmakers with no transcript. Anything more than that, he says, would be an infringement on presidential privilege...
...Johnson, considered by many to be the authentic voice in prewar blues as well as the originator of the devil-at-the-crossroads legend, stands as a persistent example of the mythological power and primal appeal of the blues, most recently inspiring Eric Clapton’s 2004 tribute album, “Me and Mr. Johnson...
...find this a completely ridiculous classification—while the actually talented Derek Trucks is cited as a slide guitar luminary. In the fine print, Jack White is described as a “crawling king snake,” praised for his “fusion of prewar blues grit and Stooges napalm,” and (falsely) likened to the legendary Blind Willie McTell...