Donald Rumsfeld has claimed that when he met with Saddam back in '84 he denounced Saddam's use of chemical weapons on his own people. The minutes of the meeting show different. He actually indicates that the US doesn't want the fact that Saddam killed thousands of people with chemical weapons to get in the way of our friendship.

Here's the Washington Post Article and the actual meeting minutes.

Here's something I just put together- it's Bill O'Reilly lying about his book sales.


He's blotchy.

Link [Real Media File, 3 Megs]

Howard Dean has taken a tremendous amount of shit the last few weeks for his statements saying that 9/11 was preventable and that the president may have had advance knowledge of attacks.

The head of the independent commission charged with investigating 9/11 seems to agree with Dean.

Former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean (Republican) says: "As you read the report, you're going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn't done and what should have been done. This was not something that had to happen."

Here's the bottom line- your national security advisor should not go on television and say, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile," when the National Reconnaissance Office was running a drill on 9/11/01 that dealt with a plane crashing in to a building. Add to this that the FBI had been warning for years of planes being used by terrorists as weapons and the FBI insisted shortly before 9/11 that Tom Ridge use government chartered aircraft and no longer fly commercial (article is from July of 2001)out of concern for his safety and you have an yet another administration claim that does not pass the laugh test.

We shall see if the administration finds a way to kill this report- they've been stonewalling the commission completely so far. (Think about that, they create this commission, hand pick the guy to run it, then stonewall him.)

Developing...

O'Reilly has been claiming that his book is neck and neck for best selling non-fiction book of the year with Hillary Clinton's "Living History." Turns out he's lying again.

From Drudge:

With two weeks to go for 2003:

Nonfiction

1. South Beach Diet / Dr. Arthur Agatston / 2,304,608 [units scanned]
2. Purpose Driven Life / Warren / 1,507,902
3. Living History / Clinton / 1,084,520
4. Ultimate Weight Solution / McGraw / 836,043
5. Lies and The Lying Liars / Franken / 674,024
6. Who's Looking Out for You / O'Reilly / 430,407
7. Benjamin Franklin / Isaacson / 384,137
8. Dude, Where's My Country / Moore / 365,519
9. Treason / Coulter / 364,848
10. Fly Boys / Bradley / 222,685

Look, I'm cool with people changing their views. But in this interview, Miller contradicts himself all over the place. He professes love for free thinkers, then openly backs a president who does anything but think. He hates liberals because they didn't want to make us safer, but wanted more money. Meanwhile, Republicans have spent billions to get thousands of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed or injured. I feel much safer. And, what was with the childish rip on Barbara Boxer? Miller has become a parody of himself. He's perfect for talk radio.

Found in a hole near Tikrit.

Just checked, I scooped Drudge.

Mr. President, please, please, please don't fuck this up.