Day April 19, 2004

Life imitates satire Optimist Club Organizes Baghdad Chapter. Despite the April 1 dateline, this appears not to be a joke. Iraqi kids will write essays about “What a Free Iraq Means To Me,” and the winner gets a ticket out…

Bob Woodward’s book There’s some blistering revelations here… (And it’s obvious, if unspoken, that Woodward’s major source for the book is Colin Powell) Bush ordered Iraq plans in November 2001 Tenet told Bush WMD case a ‘slam dunk’. Sharp thinkin’…

Iraq Calm before the storm in Baghdad The threat is clear. ‘Do not go out of your homes. Keep your families off the streets,’ the leaflet says. ‘The Combined Mujahideen Brigades are coming to Baghdad.’ Mooj were NOT in Iraq…