RE: The United Nations speaks AlphaPatriot has an excellent summary posting about what the United Nations itself recently said about Saddam and WMDs.

And here is a post about what Afghanis and Iraqis think about how things are going in their countries. Seems they are more optimistic about their futures than Americans are. Among other findings: In Afghanistan:

Sixty-four percent of people thought the country was heading in the right direction, with just 11 percent saying it was going the wrong way. ...

In Iraq, an independent polling firm found:

73% approve of new Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who says he wants to crush the insurgents and foreign terrorists disturbing the peace of his country. ...

Things are going much better in the two countries than is being reported here in the States. But you knew that.

[Via One Hand Clapping]
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Knight Ridder Gets It Wrong(Why the political agendas by the news media encourages sloppy journalism) Stephen Hayes takes Knight Ridder to task over sloppy journalism. I do not mind too much that I continue to find the major media producers to have a political agenda or "view" as the New York Times put it. I do mind that it encourages sloppy journalism. Here is part of Stephen's comments:

The authors continue:

In its report, the Senate Intelligence Committee affirmed CIA analyses that found that while there had been contacts between al-Qaida and Iraqi intelligence officials during the 1990s, "these contacts did not add up to an established relationship."

Again, not true. The report is misquoted. According to Conclusion 93 of the Senate Intelligence Committee report the "contacts did not add up to an established formal relationship." [emphasis added] How many terrorist groups have "established formal relationships" with their state sponsors? State sponsors often--but not always--prefer to keep their terrorist connections loose and informal so that they might avoid detection, deniability being a major goal of states that use terrorists to do their dirty work.
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