Explosives and Editorials
So what's in the news today. Well If you want to know the true story of what happened in Iraq with all the weapons dumps this story will help get you up-to-date. It is done by Knight Ridder who was the only news service NOT to get suckered by the Bush administration on Iraq and WMD. Josh Marshall has it all.

The Friday Editorials:

Chris Floyd
The Betrayers

On Sept. 14, 2001, as the Twin Towers in New York were still smoking, this column spoke of the coming response: "Blood will have blood; that's certain. But blood will not end it. For murder is fertile: It breeds more death, like a spider laden with a thousand eggs."

Paul Krugman
It's Not Just Al Qaqaa

Just in case, the right is already explaining away President Bush's defeat: it's all the fault of the "liberal media," particularly The New York Times, which, so the conspiracy theory goes, deliberately timed its report on the looted Al Qaqaa explosives - a report all the more dastardly because it was true - for the week before the election.

Bob Herbert
Letting Down the Troops

But when I asked this soldier, Eugene Simpson Jr., a 27-year-old staff sergeant from Dale City, Va., whom he had been fighting in Iraq - who, exactly, the enemy was - he looked up from his wheelchair and stared at me for a long moment. Then, in a voice much softer than he had been using for most of the interview, and with what seemed like a mixture of sorrow, regret and frustration, he said: "I don't know. That would be my answer. I don't know."

- posted by Mom/Dad @ 1:02 PM