Tue, Sep 21 2004
Notice the Family Resemblance?
Iyad Allawi , Prime Minister of Iraq's Interim Government, has be positively identified as Tony Soprano's elder brother, Aldo seen here. Aldo, recruited by the CIA some years ago and given extensive training in Arabic and political doublespeak, successfully impersonated an Iraqi exile for years, living abroad in London. Aldo/Iyad was flown by military transport in July 2003 in preparation for his selection to head the Interim Government which assumed full sovereignty in June of this year.
Attempts to interview Tony, the younger Soprano brother who lives in upscale Brixton, New Jersey proved unsuccessful. A spokesman for Tony Soprano told our representative to go Cheney himself.
Here's a picture of the brothers in happier times.
written by: Owlet at 08:36:58 AM | link comments
Mon, Sep 20 2004
Kerry's Plan for Iraq
The plan itself, in Kerry's own words delivered in a speech today at NYU. Read the text here.
...And David Corn of The Nation has an interesting insight and analogy: here's an excerpt.
The Bush campaign has succeeded in convincing the mainstream media that the key question is, what is Kerry's plan for Iraq? Not, say, what is Bush's plan for Iraq? If Kerry is so fortunate to win on November 2, he won't take office until January 20, and the situation in Iraq could be dramatically different. Any specific plan he tossed out now could be--and probably would be--totally irrelevant at that point. Yet Republicans and echo-chamber reporters keep asking Kerry to state precisely how he would undo Bush's mess.
"I have two young daughters at home," I said to this Kerry aide. "If one takes a glass jar and throws it on the ground of their bedroom and smashes it into thousands of pieces, I don't point my finger at the other one and say, 'Okay, what's your plan for cleaning this up.'" link
written by: Owlet at 08:14:26 PM | link comments