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Beating around the Bush
Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2003
U.S. high horse now riderless
"If Donald Rumsfeld was here," Spc. Clinton Deitz of the 3rd Infantry Division told ABC News in Baghdad, "I'd ask him for his resignation."
President's intelligence a step below excellent
But "darn good" isn't a simple Bush-country, behind-the-barn malapropism. No sirree. "Darn good" is a formal, identifiable step on a carefully thought-out, four-step intelligence evaluation scale that is employed by the CIA, the NSA, the Department of Defense and the Texas Highway Patrol.
Waiting for the tooth fairy
Every night when they go to bed, just after they've said their prayers, U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair each tuck a tooth under their pillows. They've been good boys and they won their war fair and square, so surely one of these days the tooth fairy will come and leave some Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in its place.
Blair spokesman dismisses 'psychopath' tag
"One view emerged strongly: there appears to be something worryingly adrift in the mind of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, a man who doesn't really know who or what he is.
Blair defends U.S.-led war in Iraq
Powell discusses new UN resolution on Iraq
US secretary of state, said on Wednesday he had started discussions on a possible new UN resolution on Iraq, which might encourage otherwise reluctant allies to help restore stability to the country.
The spies who pushed for war
Crude Niger forgeries surface in Italian paper
Forged documents on which the British and US governments allegedly based their case that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger were so crudely drafted that it is unlikely they would have stood up to more than a few hours' - or minutes' - scrutiny by any specialist, it emerged yesterday.
Operation Iraq captivity
The continuing attacks on US forces in parts of the oil rich Arab states are a solid affirmation of the growing anti-Washington defiance across Iraq, as popular resentment gathers pace. The latest colonial acquisition of the United States may not yet show signs of becoming another Vietnam, but the first indications are suggestive enough to demonstrate that Iraq would hardly remain a safe haven.
Hearing delayed as CIA revolts over
claims on Syrian threat
The CIA objected to a Bush Administration assessment of the threat posed by Syria's alleged weapons of mass destruction that was to be presented to Congress.
Beating around the Bush
Under fire for the CIA's handling of intelligence on Iraq, the agency's chief passes the buck back to the White House
Snow shrugs off U.S.$455bn deficit
Dire States
Americans are used to resentment of their global dominance. Since the war on Iraq, however, this hostility has begun to hit them where it hurts: in corporate balance sheets. David Usborne reports on the backlash being felt in the boardrooms everywhere from McDonald's and Nike to Microsoft and Coca-Cola
UN attacks Britain for withholding evidence
Officials from the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, have accused Tony Blair of operating an "information black-out" by refusing to hand over evidence that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger.
'It could be worse than Watergate'
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