Chalabi

This just doesn’t add up. The NY Times reports Chalabi learned from “A drunken American“ the US had broken the top secret code used by Iran’s intelligence service. He then, we are supposed to believe, told this to Iran’s intelligence chief in Baghdad - who then used THE SAME CODE to notify his superiors in Iran.

It is not credible that a seasoned intelligence chief would use a code that may have been compromised to encrypt a message saying that code may have been compromised. Or, at that point, would have use any code to send a message.

And a drunk would have told Chalabi this. This would have to have been a very highly placed drunk indeed.

Only a handful of U.S. officials would have the clearance to know that America’s code-breakers had cracked Iran’s most secret communications.

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Bring the troops home now!

Los Angeles March and Rally
Sat. June 5, 12 noon 
Assemble at Olympic & Broadway
March to downtown federal building

Speakers include
Fernando Suarez
Ron Kovic
John Duran (Mayor of West Hollywood)
Military Families Speak Out

Also
The Believers
Wil B.
Korean drummers and spoken word
Kerry Getz
Filipino spoken word
Latino truckers will arrive in a convoy from San Pedro

There will also be a March on the Pentagon and a major rally in San Francisco on June 5, as well as protests worldwide.

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The Anti-Bush haiku project

Brooke at the Bitter Shack of Resentment has started the Anti-Bush Haiku Project. Get your entries in now!

“Saddam found!” you brag
But George, where oh where are those
WMD’s?

You preach abstinence
In the name of Jesus Christ,
Cock sucked by Bechtel.

Bush is retarded
So vote for Kerry this fall
Or I’ll kick your ass

Here’s mine -

Neocons howl for war
Scream bloodlust for oil and power
End up with neither.

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Impeachable offense for Cheney?

Cheney says he was not involved in the contracts to Halliburton. An email uncovered by Judicial Watch appears to show him to be a liar.

TIME has obtained an internal Pentagon e-mail sent by an Army Corps of Engineers official—whose name was blacked out by the Pentagon—that raises questions about Cheney’s arm’s-length policy toward his old employer. Dated March 5, 2003, the e-mail says “action” on a multibillion-dollar Halliburton contract was “coordinated” with Cheney’s office.

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Exiled Allawi was responsible for phony 45-minute WMD claim

The choice of Iyad Allawi, closely linked to the CIA and formerly to MI6, as the Prime Minister of Iraq from 30 June will make it difficult for the US and Britain to persuade the rest of the world that he is capable of leading an independent government.

He is the person through whom the controversial claim was channeled that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction could be operational in 45 minutes.

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Draft 2005

There is pending legislation in the American House of Representatives and Senate in the form of twin bills - S89 and HR163. These measures (currently approved and sitting in the committee for armed services) project legislation for spring 2005, with the draft to become operational as early as June 15.

And while the Bushies say no one will be exempted from a new draft, should Dubya somehow remain in power past 2004, somehow I bet his daughters don’t get drafted, whaddaya think?

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Debt bubble about to burst

Jim Jubak, at MSN MoneyCentral is no alarmist. But he’s concerned about the debt bubble. Here’ some of the reasons why.

In the first quarter of 2004, 53% of all mortgages were adjustable rate. When rates rise, as they will this year, then suddenly mortgages get more expensive.

Credit cards are easy to get now. If you run up a bill too high on one card, wait a bit, then find another with cheaper rates. When rates rise, all that goes away. Because, you see, credit card interest rates float, when interest rates go up, so do they.

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