[lbo-talk] Ex-bag cat

[C. G. Estabrook]

A column by John Pilger <http://pilger.carlton.com/print> is devastating
to what's left of of the Bush/Blair war policy. According to Reuters, the
quotes that it contains -- notably from Powell, saying that Saddam was no
threat -- were circulated by a Democrat Congressional aide and mentioned
today in the Washington Post (which refers to Pilger only as an
"Australian journalist").  Powell has already tried to explain himself --
almost pitifully: <http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=
4YO2VZ4ZUJ2CECRBAEKSFFA?type=politicsNews&storyID=3509888>.  --CGE