Riverbend puts the latest news from Iraq in perspective.
To hell with Zarqawi (or Zayrkawi as Bush calls him). He was an American creation- he came along with them- they don’t need him anymore, apparently. His influence was greatly exaggerated but he was the justification for every single family they killed through military strikes and troops. It was WMD at first, then it was Saddam, then it was Zarqawi. Who will it be now? Who will be the new excuse for killing and detaining Iraqis? Or is it that an excuse is no longer needed- they have freedom to do what they want. The slaughter in Haditha months ago proved that. “They don’t need him anymore,” our elderly neighbor waved the news away like he was shooing flies, “They have fifty Zarqawis in government.”
It’s on the front page of the Washington Post, so it must be true: “Democratic campaign fundraising beginning to close long time GOP advantage.”
Markos gets the star treatment there from Dan Balz, via the Seattle Times. But if you wanted to catch him this morning (in Seattle) on “Meet the Press,” you had to be up at 5AM. Tennis rules.
More details emerge about Al’s Tonight Show gig:
Gore also jokes he might consider a nude scene in his next movie if the script had integrity and it advanced the story.
On the serious side, Gore says he has no plans to run for president again. He says he’s “been there and done that.”