Which is likely to further damage the standing of Tony Blair, the PNAC's most loyal servant ally overseas, possibly leading to him being dumped by Labour (unless there is an intelligence cabal blackmailing key Labour members into supporting the neo-conservative cause, as some have suggested). Of course, after the next general election, it may not matter. Rupert Murdoch's Sun tabloid largely decides those, and apparently they're already leaning towards the Tories.
Not sure what effects it will have in Australia; perhaps it will embolden Labor and remove the temptation for the government to call a double-dissolution "khaki election". (via Charlie's Diary)
On a different note, here's someone trying to think systematically about the Case of the Missing WMDs: http://www.howardowens.com/index.cfm?action=full_text&ARTICLE_ID=1294
Re: "British scum sheets": that sort of title one usually sees applied to bastard tabloids like the Sun and the Daily Mirror (the latter was anti-war, I believe, so I'm not being partisan here). To lump in the Guardian with the outrage-marshalling murdochs takes a certain type of disingenuity of the sort that claims that FOXNews is "fair and balanced".
Well, it is LGF.
Still, that was a pretty bad case of taking someone out of context, even if the PNUTs have proved themselves about as coldly pragmatic as those they despise, like your Kissingers.
Anyway, the link's gone.
In any case, the very fact that the statement could be interpreted in this way could kill Blair's career and possibly knock Howard down a peg or two.
LGF has a style of writing all it's own, doesn't it? It's quite unfathomable. Constant anger towards people simply trying to figure out the truth. That's not conservatism, it's manic. I should challenge myself to read it first-hand some time.
So it's something like http://nicedoggie.net then?
Actually, it appears the Wolfowitz interview story is more complex than that; Vanity Fair are standing by their story, and there are supposedly whole sections missing from the official military transcript. See http://talkingpointsmemo.com/june0301.html#060403510pm
The plot thickens...
LGF is to credibility as cigarette smoke is to the human body...
(Mind you, it *does* seem he was taken out of context: he was saying they couldn't use economic sanctions because the country swam in oil. The Guardian have now removed the page.)
That's probably fair enough Mark - the Guardian got it wrong, but plenty of other news outlets have been reporting comments that are not so easy to dismiss.
The trouble is, LGF is as obsessed with tearing apart "leftist media" as some folks are with tearing apart everything the US does. They're all a load of tin-hat-wearing nutters, they just subscribe to different conspiracies.
Grant, I agree completely.
Who dat LGF?
Bubba, LGF stands for "little.green.footballs", a once-good technology (?) 'blog which, since Sep11, has been dedicated entirely to finding examples of bad Muslim/French/left-wing behaviour and misrepresenting it as the norm. The group who comment on the 'blog is made up almost entirely of far-right nutjobs consumed with hatred. Read some of their comments, try to avoid retching. http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
As Charlie acknowledges at his bulletin board, "Looks like the Guardian did quote somewhat selectively, according to some folks."
A slightly angrier take: "Once again, British scum sheets are showing their utter desperation and moral bankruptcy, by lying blatantly about Paul Wolfowitz." http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=6906_Another_British_Attack_on_Wolfowitz