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To: LindyBill who wrote (20178)	12/17/2003 4:53:25 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793597

Honestly, LB....Taranto again proves that the truth IS stranger than fiction.......Thanks for posting this...my stomach still hurts from laughing..... Best of the Web - Winner! Best Media/Journalist Blog BY JAMES TARANTO Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:35 p.m. In other words, even people who thought liberating Iraq was a strategic mistake should be cheering every tactical victory there--if, that is, they really care about our national security. 8888888888888 Mixed Nuts Pro-Saddam congressman "Baghdad Jim" McDermott, a Seattle Democrat,... 'I'm sure they could have found him a long time ago if they wanted to,' " reports the Seattle Times....... .......McDermott is something of a fringe figure even on the Democratic left; last year he famously visited Baghdad, where he vouched for Saddam Hussein's honesty and called the president of the United States a liar........... 888888888888888888 Some amusing variations of the "suspicious timing" theory show up in man-on-the-street reaction pieces. The Citizen-Times of Asheville, N.C., quotes one Zane Dasher: "It's no coincidence that it's so close to elections." But isn't it about 10 months early for an October surprise? 8888888888888888888 The World's Smallest Violin Oh, the humanity! If this Weintraub guy had his way, war would be no fun at all. 888888888888888888 Saddam Countdown Yesterday we noted a quote from Palestinian moonbat Jihan Ajlouni: 88888888888888 'The Man Who Is Alleged to Have Caused the Deaths' Wesley Clark, who led the 1999 Kosovo war, testified at The Hague yesterday in Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes trial. CNN has a quote that helps show why his presidential campaign is going nowhere: All passive voice and "alleged." This guy wants to be the leader of the free world, yet he can't just come out and straightforwardly say what Milosevic did. 88888888 Dispatch From the Porn Belt In Berkeley, Calif. (Alameda County, Gore by 45.23%), former schoolteacher Shannon Williams wants to go back to the classroom. While on sabbatical, Williams was arrested in August and charged with prostitution, but she plea-bargained the charge down to disturbing the peace. ......... "It pays well, and I like the work. I consider it to be a healing profession, in line with therapy and bodywork, kind of a combination of the two," she said.