Weekend Reading

The Atlanta Journal Constitution: Cytnhia Tucker Big Oil's slick no-bid contracts will keep us mired in Iraq http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2008/06/20/tucked_0622.html and Jay Bookman Blame it all on the greenies http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/entries/2008/06/22/refining_the_truth.html and Case for war was built on 'cynical manipulation' http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/bookman/stories/2008/06/12/bookmaned_0612.html From McClatchy, we get an amusing portrait of the fellow called "Curveball", whose information was used to build a case for war. He seems to resemble the guys in "Slackers". Nukes & Spooks Iraq's WMD Curveball comes back around http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/nationalsecurity/2008/06/iraqs-wmd-curve.html ...Another Iraqi friend, Ghazwan Adnan, remembers laughing when he applied for a job at a local Princess Garden Chinese Restaurant and discovered Alwan washing dishes in the back while claiming to be "a big deal" in Iraq. "How could America believe such a person?"