Some mornings, reading the headlines is almost overwhelming

these, for instance...

Much Undone In Rebuilding Iraq, Audit Says

A flailing Iraq reconstruction effort that has been dominated for more than three years by U.S. dollars and companies is being transferred to Iraqis, leaving them the challenge of completing a long list of projects left unfinished by the Americans.

goodbye and good luck... write and let us know how it's going...

9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon

Allegations Brought to Inspectors General

Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.

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A Pentagon spokesman said yesterday that the inspector general's office will soon release a report addressing whether testimony delivered to the commission was "knowingly false."

i'm inclined to believe there was a lot more to mislead about than a "bungled response to the hijackings..." and do we really think for one minute that an inspectors general report affirming deliberate deception would ever even get written much less see the light of day...?

N.Y. Times Must Surrender Reporters' Phone Data

Appellate Panel Rejects First Amendment Claim in Federal Grand Jury Probe

The New York Times may not withhold reporters' phone records from a federal grand jury investigating an alleged leak of a pending government raid on two Islamic charities suspected of supporting terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.

repression of the fourth estate rolls merrily along...

Israel Moves Thousands Of Soldiers Into Lebanon

Clashes With Hezbollah Reported in South, East

Thousands of Israeli soldiers streamed into southern Lebanon on Tuesday, as clashes with Hezbollah fighters in at least half a dozen towns marked an intensified ground campaign to dislodge Hezbollah strongholds that have withstood three weeks of aerial bombardment.

after it reneged on its promise to halt bombing for 48 hours after killing more than 50 civilians, most of them children, in qana, lebanon, israel now seems to be pulling out all the stops...

i could go on, but you get the drift...

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