Thursday, October 21, 2004
News catch-up 10/21/2004
It's official - the government broke another deficit record in FY 2004, and the White House is having to shift numbers around to avoid exceeding the debt ceiling.
Iran has rejected any deal that would forbid it from enriching it's own uranium and Iran's head of national security haas voiced endorsement of a Bush win on November 2.
Days before the invasion of Iraq the Pentagon had no post-invasion plan - other than as described by a slide in a Pentagon presentation which read "To Be Provided.". Pat Robertson says the President shortly before the invasion told him an invasion of Iraq wouldn't result in any casualties, the White House calls Robertson a liar and Kevin Drum comes up with a plausible explanation: Bush was speaking of casualties by WMD and knew that wasn't anything to worry about.
The CIA is withholding a report on the lead up to 9/11. The report is thought to cast administration officials as more culpable than similar reports from other bodies.
An Army unit in Iraq refused a mission because they did not have adequate equipment. The unit's commander has been relieved of duty.
Everybody reading this should have by now read Ron Suskind's excellent essay on Bush's insanely reckless religious fervor with which he conducts national policy.
Dick Cheney plays the nuclear card by trying to terrify America by warning us that he feels his administration is incapable of preventing terrorists from nuking US cities. I'm left puzzled as to why he offers this as a reason to vote from him and Junior.
Both the Bush and Kerry campaigns are anticipating winning or losing the election in the courtroom rather than in ballot boxes. Nonetheless, the Bush campaign is sending Condi to battleground states to give stump speeches, despite criticizing former non-political administration officials for even commenting on politics.
Kerry's momentum in the polls seems to be having trouble breaking the 50/50 barrier (graph, graph) but at the same time he is gaining momentum in key battleground states.
// posted by Erik @ 10/21/2004 09:59:00 PM
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