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January 13, 2004
Another Time Round the Blogosphere

Since I'm not feeling too much like doing any original writing so far this evening, I'll point you to some good work being done by others with more to say ...

Power Line gets to be the first port in the storm, with a terrific series of posts on Paul O'Neill and Ron Susking, and their new book and interview tour. Hindrocket broke the story about the true nature of the documentation used by the pair in asserting a conspiracy to invade Iraq -- documents which turned out to be normal energy-policy data. Today, the Big Trunk posts the entire transcript of Katie Couric's interview with O'Neill (primarily) in full retreat:

O'NEILL: Yeah, and the other thing that's good, today the book is going to be available, and this red meat frenzy that's occurred when people didn't have anything except snippets -- as an example, you know, people are trying to make a case that I said the president was planning war in Iraq early in the administration. Actually, there was a continuation of work that had been going on in the Clinton administration with the notion that there needed to be regime change in Iraq.

COURIC: So you see nothing wrong with that being at the top of the president's agenda 10 days after the inauguration?

O'NEILL: Absolutely not. One of the candidates had said this confirms his worst suspicions. I'm amazed that anyone would think that our government, on a continuing basis across political administrations, doesn't do contingency planning and look at circumstances. Saddam Hussein has been this forever. And so, I was surprised, as I've said in the book, that Iraq was given such a high priority. But I was not surprised that we were doing a continuation of planning that had been going on and looking at contingency options during the Clinton administration.

COURIC: Because of the Iraq Liberation Act that was passed in 1998 almost unanimously by the Senate and near unanimously by the House.

O'NEILL: Absolutely.

And of course, the best part is where O'Neill endorses Bush in the election. No, really. Check it out, and check out Power Line's entire series on this topic.

The California Yankee stays on top of the scandal in Connecticut involving their embattled Republican governor, John Rowland. In today's post, Dan provides a good thumbnail history of the issues and notes that he's impressed with Rowland's tenacity, if nothing else. I haven't posted on this, but my take is that Rowland should resign, and if he doesn't, he should probably get impeached. But that's just me -- and I don't live in Connecticut ...

Joe at the Evangelical Outpost manages to get ahead of the curve; he's starting a new ClarkWatch feature, similar to my (and everyone else's) DeanWatch. Knowing Joe, we'll get every bit of Clark's loony ramblings, such as the fact that he feels a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy until ... well, until the water breaks, I guess ...

Jon at QandO picks a bad day to stop sniffing glue -- and then writes brilliantly on the underlying issues that will complicate our efforts to bring democracy to Iraq...

Finally, the Commissar explains the Iowa Caucus. Sort of. It's scary ...

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