Bits & Pieces

Butthead Bush looking forward to invasion

Two years before the September 11 attacks, presidential candidate George W. Bush was already talking privately about the political benefits of attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer, who held many conversations with then-Texas Governor Bush in preparation for a planned autobiography.

GNN article

Josh Marshall comments.

Butthead O'Reilly looking forward to future phone sex

Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly and the female producer that accused him of sexual harassment reached an out of court settlement on Thursday. Part of the settlement stipulates that there was no wrongdoing by either party.

AntiMusic article

Don't you love the law? Big wads of money can exchange hands off wrongdoing and have it officially declared nothing wrong.

Halliburton

One of the US Army's top procurement officers yesterday called the Bush administration's grant of multibillion-dollar contracts to oil services giant Halliburton "the worst case of contracting abuse she has ever seen".

Bunny Greenhouse, the Corps of Engineers chief contracting official, said: "It was misconduct, and part of that misconduct was blatant." Her comments, made in an interview on NBC's Nightly News programme, came as US government memos revealed that the Pentagon extended a Halliburton contract for 11 months beyond its expiration, despite warnings that the company was "out of control" in its work providing troop support in the Balkans.

UK Independent article

Iraq
CARE shuts down Iraq operations

Iran

Defiant lawmakers - shouting ``Death to America'' - unanimously voted Sunday to approve the outline of a bill requiring the government to resume uranium enrichment, a move likely to deepen an international dispute over Tehran's atomic activities.

Nevertheless, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Hossein Mousavian, told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that a compromise could still be reached with European negotiators to avert the risk of U.N. sanctions.

Guardian Unlimited article

Afghanistan

The Iraq-style abduction could put a brake on the country's post-Taliban recovery and overshadow the crowning of U.S. favorite Hamid Karzai as its first democratically elected president.

ABC News article

The bin Laden tape

[Bin Laden] made a direct appeal to the American people saying that al Qaeda would suspend its attacks if there was a change in US foreign policy in the Muslim world.

Peter Bergen article

Wait a minute. I thought they were just attacking us because they're evildoers and they hate our freedoms.

The October Surprise was a huge success! Special Guest Villian Osama bin Laden made his scary speech right in time for Satan's Night. This is powerful stuff, guaranteed to have those security moms pulling the lever for Our Leader (not that the other levers do anything). Initial results show that OBL continues to earn every rocket-launcher he's been paid.

Jesus' General

And the Bush campaign was very pleased with OBL's campaign advertisement - or "little gift", as they called it. Perhaps OBL is awaiting another shipment from those missing al-QaQaa weapons.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.