...indeed, DD confessed that he had a collection of records by Status Quo.
[blink] Well, there you go. I look upon the late lamented Mr Dewar in a whole new way, now. A bemused way, mostly, but...
Julia: If memory serves, Nixon served by playing poker and writing cargo manifests for several years, so possibly not the best comparison (Although, yeah, he did volunteer to go despite a religious get-out card, which is worth remembering).
On the other hand, he quite literally did give the crowd a shot at him in Venezuela...
Ten months ago, some pundits were looking at the war, looking at the Democrats, casting their minds back and talking about 1972.
Last night might not have been good, but it certainly isn't a 1972. As I understand these things, it'd be a hell of a remarkable reaction to any administration that wasn't this one, in fact... but it's still demoralising.
The election is close, but it's not been called unless you're the White House. It's tight, but it's certainly not Florida.2000 - people know what they're trying to do, and they seem to be hitting the ground running. If it comes to pass, well, I suppose it comes to pass. But, as they say, then it will pass...
The Kipling is really quite wonderful; I'm impressed. I've noted before that some of it rings true more now than it has for a while; must start looking at it again... (There's a complete collection here if people want to follow through... but copies of the complete verse are cheap, anyhow).
And, of course...
Common Form:
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
Ken: I really can't see it; all tinfoil-hattery aside, they'd have, ooh, a month to start something in... and whilst the US military is in Iraq in force, it really has its hands pretty full.
I was thinking about the possibility of a diplomatic October Surprise ("-- renounces rogue nation status, praises Bush Administration!"), but there likewise doesn't seem to be much room for one anywhere...
neil: "We have him locked up" is hard to keep a secret - although for a week or so it'd be doable, and even spinnable - but it can be read as plausible if, say, they've broken AQ's communications, or got infiltrated observers...
If you know where he is, and can surround that place well enough to know if he goes, then either capturing him or finding a body becomes much more of a to-order prospect. Of course, that may well not be plausible, I don't know... but it would fit well with "let's keep quiet".
Hmm. This is showing the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory; the fact that there isn't evidence for it is evidence for it... gah... get out of my head, thoughts...
Well, the same coincidence happened on a smaller scale; "a senior al Qaeda figure" was picked up just before the other convention in Pakistan, and then announced just in time to catch the tail end of it. Handy, that... googling throws up the likes of this, which seems to provide a reasonable summary of what people commented at the time.
I do concur with Terry, though; the lack of comment on him does lead me to suspect they're not confident of catching him - whether that's through differing priorities or his Evil Mastermind Plans depends which way you want to look at it - so they'd just as soon not have him a topic for debate.
But hey! Moustache-guy's gone, right! Mission accomplished!
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