Deep Thoughts

Bush Estimates 30,000 Iraqis Killed in War — Wow, that’s a lot of enemy combatants, insurgents, Baath Party loyalists, foreign fighters and Al-Qaeda operatives! That must really put a dent in the evildoers ranks!
Lynne Cheney Offers Democracy Lesson — Mrs. Cheney was the latest Bush administration figure sent to marshal support for the United States’ Iraq policy among elementary school children at two Washington-area military installations[.] — Same kind of Democracy lesson, I wonder, as when she works at making the US look good in history lessons?
Memphis police officer shoots 15-year-old burglary suspect (who had started to climb a chain-link fence) in the back of the head. A young lawyer working for the Regan Administration at the time prepares a memo on the case stating, “The shooting can be justified as reasonable within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. . . . a fleeing suspect in effect states to the police: ‘Kill me or let me escape the legal process, at least for now.’ . . . If every suspect could evade arrest by putting the state to this choice, societal order would quickly break down.” — Alito Memo Says Police Shooting Justified
Israel readies forces for strike on nuclear Iran
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression —