Month: October 2005

What’s going on besides Plamegate?

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Crossposted at you-know-where and Myleftwing

Juan Cole reports that the fraud is too obvious to ignore:

Al-Hayat reports that 643,000 votes were cast in Ninevah Province (capital: Mosul). At the time it filed, 419,000 had been preliminarily counted, and the vote was running 75 percent in favor. Ninevah Province was the most likely place that Sunni Arabs opposing the constitution might be able to get a 2/3s “no” vote.

Several of my knowledgeable readers are convinced that the Ninevah voting results as reported so far look like fraud. One suspected that the Iraqi government so feared a defeat there that they over-did the ballot stuffing and ended up with an implausible result.

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Many conservatives act like the parks were set aside not for future generations, but for future use.  Like they’re the equivalent of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and are just sitting there waiting to be tapped.

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Political Animals – Featuring an All-Nude Cast!

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The Iraqi people have voted.  Despite turnout rates in some Sunni regions as high as 90% their attempts to block the adoption of the new constitution have failed.  President Bush congratulated the Iraqi people and praised the expected results. “This is a very positive day for the Iraqis and, as well, for world peace. Democracies are peaceful countries” he said. But we know better.

Do you know why?  Because in a strange way we’ve been there before. Democrats that is.  

Let’s play a little psychological parlour game of regression if you don’t mind. (I promise we won’t rehash that time your older brother made you eat the booger) We won’t go back far, only to a little less then a year ago. To the first Wednesday in November 2004.

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Libby & Miller Already Knew Who Plame Was

Miller as one of the six reporters contacted and told about Plame did not write an article “smearing” Valerie Plame.

Idle Speculation

If Miller wrote an article attacking Plame, Miller may have worried that there was a possibility that someone could trace elements of Millers WMD articles back to information in CIA documents developed by covert CIA WMD expert Valerie Plame. (The run-up to the Iraq invasion was built in part on classified CIA WMD information.)

Millers initial concern would be about being exposed for publishing classified information (culled from Plame CIA documents). Miller has security clearance so she is privy to the documents contents. Or gains security clearance to justify viewing or possessing classified information.

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