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Brussel's famous statue Manneken Pis is dressed the colors of the city with a sign reading "Not In My Name."
hall to the chiefs
"After taking some political heat, Halliburton is stepping out of the kitchen. The giant energy and construction firm once managed by Vice President Dick Cheney is no longer in the running for a $600 million rebuilding contract in postwar Iraq, NEWSWEEK has learned.
Timothy Beans, The chief acquisition officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said in an interview that Halliburton is not one of the two finalists to be prime contractor for the reconstruction of Iraq, though the Houston-based firm could take part as a subcontractor. The contract is to be awarded next week."
integrated circuitousness
"Of the 30 members of the Defense Policy Board, the government-appointed group that advises the Pentagon, at least nine have ties to companies that have won more than $76 billion in defense contracts in 2001 and 2002. Four members are registered lobbyists, one of whom represents two of the three largest defense contractors.
The board’s chairman, Richard Perle, resigned yesterday, March 27, 2003, amid allegations of conflicts of interest for his representation of companies with business before the Defense Department, although he will remain a member of the board. Eight of Perle’s colleagues on the board have ties to companies with significant contracts from the Pentagon."
too legit to quip
damn that ethel and his research --
Instruments of Statecraft: us guerrilla warfare, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism (1940-1990)
eurobowling for petrodollars
Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured US Government Focus On Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein
punkrock city, usaf
the antic muse on potential punkrock band names to emerge from the fray. my first editions would be Siege of Basra and The J-DAMs.
nothing to see here
hey, my first instapundit link. can a subscription to the weakly standard be far behind? cant argue with this, though.
theres no ass in texas
who could imagine dr. seuss and sodomy would make strange bedfellows at the supreme court lodge?
that swinger over at harvard has more.
neocontactics
"When the histories of the U.S.-Iraqi war are written, someone is going to have to track down when exactly the neoconservatives sold the Brooklyn Bridge to our president.
I don’t mean the idea of the war itself, though the neocons have been promoting it ever since Poppy Bush let Saddam off the hook in 1991. I have in mind, rather, the notion that the war would unleash the genie of democracy throughout the Middle East, that with our victory would come a quantum leap in America’s prestige and reputation. Television would beam to all the world heartwarming images of U.S. troops being rapturously received as they speed across Iraq; and we would again become the liberators we were in 1944-5."
please please tell me now
"We certainly never thought it would get this big," concludes Robison. "If we did, we would have thought of a better name than the Dixie Chicks."
the revolution will be motorized
get your asymmetrical war on