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STRATEGY FOR THE DAY: Talk it over.

I've added the 1970's and 1980's to my Brief History Of Love Songs at the Sound Experience web site. It's shallow. It's fun. What can I say. I enjoyed writing it.

I've-Been-Watching-Too-Much-CNN Dept.: ...If memory serves me, when a military commander orders his troops into danger, he takes responsibility for the outcome, even if (especially if) it's a disaster. I don't believe military leaders are supposed to say things like 'Well, we woulda been successful but the radio operator handed me my laundry list instead of the enemy's position.' So... how is it that Bush (or Tony Blair for that matter) thinks he can get away with saying he got the wrong intelligence. ("Well, the CIA tooooold me there were WMD in Iraq!) Don't you think you'd make sure before you invaded somebody? At least check a couple times, especially if things look a little odd and a few dozen people are trying to warn you about forgeries, etc. I dunno... it just kinda strikes me as unbecoming in a president. ('Well, I THOUGHT they were there." "I had every reason to believe Saddam INTENDED to use WMD." "Dick Cheney toooold me they were there.")

So then this military leader, who got his laundry list instead of enemy intelligence, creates a committee to look into it. And he appoints all the members of the committee himself. And then tells everyone, as loudly and often as possible, what he expects the committee to find. If this were theatre, it would be a French farce... except the French got it right this time.

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