Starting a beautiful weekend with dark headlines

it's a cool, fresh, breezy, late-summer early morning here in buenos aires with those brilliant blue skies and intense sunshine that, for me, are the city's hallmark... i wish the headlines measured up...

Gonzales, Mueller admit FBI broke law

The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the
FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions.

Pentagon struggles to find fresh troops

Faced with a military buildup in Iraq that could drag into next year,
Pentagon officials are trying to identify enough units to keep up to 20 brigade combat teams in Iraq. A brigade usually has about 3,500 troops.

The likely result will be extending the deployments of brigades scheduled to come home at the end of the summer, and sending others earlier than scheduled.

Afghanistan's 'Hard Mission' Slips Away

A Canadian parliamentary panel has taken an unvarnished look at the war in Afghanistan and concluded that it is a "hard mission" that is slipping out of control. The legislators fault heavy-handed U.S. tactics for alienating the population and an inadequate NATO commitment to pacify the country.

Is the Bush surge already failing?

The president just gave a rosy assessment of his plan, but insurgents have adapted and Iraqis continue to be slaughtered.

Killing U.S. Troops Slowly

Some Bush administration officials have expressed shock at the mistreatment of Iraq War veterans at Walter Reed and other medical centers. But this scandal has many antecedents, including the neglect shown to many veterans who served in Vietnam and in the first U.S. war with Iraq.

and then there's the low comedy of dear leader...

Bush deflects Chavez's verbal attacks

President Bush refuses to be goaded into a war of words with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who is answering the president's five-country trek through Latin America with taunts of "Gringo go home."

Bush is trying to spread a message of U.S. compassion for the region and ignore Chavez, who blames U.S.-style capitalism for poverty and inequality in Latin America.

"U.S. compassion for the region..." now THAT'S a hoot... remember, george, all the people you are trying to get to swallow that lie watched how "compassionately" you handled katrina, how "compassionately" you are treating iraqis, the "compassionate" care that detainees are receiving in your custody, and the "compassionate" health care returning veterans experience under your leadership... like us, they know that the words that pass your lips do so minus any semblance of the truth...

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