1. Start one.
2. Ignore all previous war plans.
3. Shock, awe and stay the course resulting in the deaths of thousands of troops and civilians.
4. 3 1/2 years later, decide to protect remaining civilians and troops by actually drawing up a war plan (which probably won't work anyway because it's too damn late now!).
Oh...and shill for the war at the UN while making a huge ass of yourself only to come out in public 3 1/2 years later on the paid lecture circuit admitting that the US will never win it anyway which you ought to have known from the beginning since you were, after all a general!
Alrighty then, moving on...
U.S. military records show that between 8,000 and 10,000 soldiers are currently unaccounted for. It is not known how many are AWOL for political reasons.
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Can you blame them??
- Bush is seriously threatening North Korea while everyone's busy with the sex scandal:
The Bush administration delivered a secret message to North Korea yesterday warning it to back down from a promised nuclear test, and it said publicly that the United States would not live with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang government.
North Korea "can have a future or it can have these weapons. It cannot have both," Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill said yesterday in remarks at Johns Hopkins University's U.S.-Korea Institute. It was the toughest response yet from the Bush administration, coming two days after Pyongyang announced plans to conduct its first nuclear test.
A perfect example of Bush-style 'diplomacy'.
- Bushco has also given Iran an ultimatum to suspend uranium enrichment by the end of this week or face sanctions. In response, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad basically said, 'Go ahead. Make my day'.
- Condi Rice is hiding out in the Middle East during the current political shitstorm at home and in between shoe buying trips, she's trying to find out where that Bush
While Ms Rice was in the region, the International Crisis Group published a statement yesterday signed by 135 former world leaders, including John Major and Jimmy Carter, calling for "fresh thinking and the injection of new political will" to resolve the conflict."
Yeah, well 'freshness' isn't exactly the mark of this US administration. 'Stale the course' is more like it.
Hamas seems to consider Condi more of a landscape designer than a diplomat:
The Hamas Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, was scathing about her visit, saying she "cares only to rearrange this region and to rearrange the Palestinian scene in a way that serves the American and Israeli agenda."
- This is pretty damn scary: 'Web of Hate' in The Guardian:
On the rightwing website Redwatch, hundreds of photographs of anti-war and anti-fascist activists are posted - with the message that they will 'pay for their crimes'. And now a number of those people have been attacked. So why hasn't the site been closed down? Matthew Taylor investigates
[...]
The site, which has links with the neo-Nazi organisation Combat 18 and a host of European fascist organisations, is hosted in the US but registered and run from the UK. It lists the personal details and shows the photographs of anti-racists - many taken during protests against the British National Party - alongside the slogan: 'Remember places, traitors' faces, they'll all pay for their crimes.'
- Former president, George H W Bush, will be on Larry King's show on Thursday. In a trailer for the show, Bush tells King that he won't read Woodward's new book State of Denial because it criticizes junior Bush. Denial - it's genetic in the Bush family, obviously.
Breaking news (4 am ET):
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq's al Qaeda leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been killed, Al Arabiya television reported on Thursday.
It gave no further details. Masri, an Egyptian who is also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, assumed the leadership of al Qaeda in Iraq after Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in June.
Update: (4:15 am ET) via CNN - The US military denies having killed al-Masri, so who knows what the heck is going on over there? Bedtime for me.
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