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Tuesday, June 29, 2004



Daily dose of Bush lysenkoism:

The Bush administration has ordered that government scientists must be approved by a senior political appointee before they can participate in meetings convened by the World Health Organization, the leading international health and science agency.

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Chirac tells Bush to keep his nose out. President Chirac has shattered transatlantic amity at the Nato summit by attacking President Bush for meddling in EU affairs by supporting Turkey's membership. [Telegraph News | International News]

Uh-oh. Does that mean we have to call them "freedom fries" again?


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Konfabulator author slams Apple 'theft'. Lightening strikes twice for konfounded Mac developer Arlo Rose, who has again seen his plans thwarted by Cupertino By Andrew Orlowski . [The Register]

"Lightening?" does he mean that Arlo Rose has become paler? Of course, if they fix the error on the Register's page, this comment will look stupid. But don't they have a copy editor?


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Joe Klein: "Rumsfeld's blustery testosteronics are.... Joe Klein: "Rumsfeld's blustery testosteronics are at the heart of what has gone wrong with the Bush foreign policy - and last week the assorted temper tantrums appeared to be a leading indicator of a gathering summer storm confronting this presidency." [electablog]
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Jesse Helms Slams Bush Tax Policy. George Bush is losing support on all sides of the political spectrum. This appeared in today's Washington Post: "I would not have voted for [President Bush's] tax cut, based on what I know. . . . There is no doubt that the people at the top who need a tax break the least will get the most benefit. . . . Too often presidents do things that don't end up helping the people they should be helping, and their staffs... [The Official John Kerry Blog]
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Jacob Levy Is Very Disturbed.

Jacob Levy is very disturbed:

Jacob Levy: June 29, 2004: I have a question. Has there ever, in the four months since it broke, been a refutation of, an official response to, or even a developed conservative talking point on the story that Pentagon plans to take out Zarqawi before the Iraq war were vetoed by the White House, because Zarqawi was more convenient as a living terrorist in Iraq who could help justify the war?

At the time this seemed to me a huge, terrible story. Given a possibility for real pre-emption against one of the worst terrorists out there, the administration said no, for bad reasons. And many hundreds have since died at that terrorist's hands or under his orders. It was the sort of thing that, had it been asserted by The Nation or Michael Moore or Wesley Clark, would have been trumpeted by the right as evidence of the unhinged conspiratorial thinking of the left. Reported and (apprently reliably though in part anonymously) sourced by NBC, it went, as far as I can tell, entirely unanswered, but also almost entirely unnoticed. At first I assumed that it was so extreme and appalling extreme a claim that there was almost certainly a credible counter-story or at least contrary interpretation to be offered. But I never saw it.

But before I finally file such a dreadful item as "probably true" in my mind I want to ask the Conspiracy's readers, many of whom give the administration much more benefit of the doubt than I do any more: were we ever offered any reason not to believe this story? Was it denied, refuted, or responded to? A denial doesn't disprove it, of course, but has there even been a denial?

Links appreciated. I'll update this post, if useful information comes in (but I won't update just to quote e-mails that say "Of course it can't be true!").

He's very disturbed. So am I.

[Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)]
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