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President Bush made a surprise visit to Baghdad today, his first since November 2003. The five-hour trip includes a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, with whom Bush was scheduled to speak via a teleconference before he secretly left the U.S. Monday night.
Karl Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, said today that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald told him his client will not be charged with any crimes in the investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity. Justin Rood tells us that truthout.org stands by its repeated reports that Rove will be indicted.
Ten Palestinians were killed today when the Israeli Air Force fired two missiles in Gaza City at the vehicle of an Islamic Jihad crew Israel Defense Forces say was prepared to fire Katyusha rockets at Israel. One missile missed the crew’s vehicle as it drove through the heavily populated Zeitoun neighborhood; the second missile struck its target.
Thursday the House will debate a Republican-crafted resolution that Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) says will highlight “clear differences between Republicans and Democrats on how best to confront the Global War on Terror.” Democrats object to the fact that Iraq does not appear until the resolution’s eighth paragraph, as Republicans try to place the Iraq war in the broader context of the war on terror.
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was seriously injured yesterday in a motorcycle accident. Roethlisberger, who in February became the youngest quarterback ever to lead his team to a Super Bowl title, was not wearing a helmet.
J. McCutchen "JmacSF"
San Francisco. CA
Something fishy about that Rove story....Fitzgerald's not commenting and the NyT apparently has not seen the "formal notification"
Show me the letter
Nothing fishy about the TurkeyHasLanded - Sequel
Any similarity between the capture of Saddam/Turkey Landing and Zarqawi/Turkey landing purely coincidental..
He has a problem now though. AlQ2rivers named a new chief that even I have trouble pronouncing
June 13, 2006 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
J. McCutchen "JmacSF"
San Francisco. CA
IF memory serves, Rove's lawyer pulled a similar stunt after the Libby indictment. The Conintern ran with it "Fitzgerald Refuses to Indict Rove" and it made the rounds of the BushVille Echo Chamber.....was that 2 or three grand jury appearances ago...memory doesn't serve that well
June 13, 2006 10:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here is some of what your President had to say today in Baghdad:
"Ultimately, the victory in the war on terror, the victory in a struggle against those who have no ideology -- well, they've got an ideology, but it's an ideology that is dark and dismal. It's one that doesn't respect human dignity. It's an ideology that doesn't believe in the freedom to worship. It's an ideology that doesn't respect the role and rights of women in society. It's an ideology that has no hope. The way to defeat that ideology is with an ideology of light. I believe in the universality of freedom. I believe deep in everybody's soul is the desire to be free.
We don't expect the Iraqi government to look like the American government. We expect an Iraqi government to honor its traditions and its histories and its religious faiths. But we do expect the Iraqi government to honor the right of every man, woman and child to live in a free society. And when Iraq succeeds -- and it will -- the rest of the world, particularly in the Middle East, will see such a hopeful example of what's possible."
Professor John Stuart Blackton
June 13, 2006 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink