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Good news, America: With the Pentagon’s sale of thousands of fighter-jet parts that only be used by Iran’s Air Force, there is still hope of a Gulf of Tonkin-style incident to finally start the War Against New Worst Enemy Iran! MORE »

Trying to convince people you’re not “the dumbest fucking guy on the planet”? Here’s a helpful hint: don’t choose the same headshot Douglas Feith did for his site, “Please Stop Yelling at Me and Calling Me Names.” MORE »

Valentine’s Day — what was it? What did it want from us? We turned, as we often do in matters of the heart, to former Defense Secretary William Cohen for the answers. Alas, his remarks in the Washington Post’s “On Faith” special section (aka the “Keep Sally Quinn busy” section) raised more questions than they answered. MORE »

The US Military held a super-fun Green Zone powerpoint presentation for reporters this weekend, trying to convince them that Iran was responsible for some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq over the last couple years. Their proof: Pictures that were quite damning, once their significance was explained by the US military. There was everything from PVC tubing that (the military said) proved Iranian involvement to mortar shells that (the military said) proved Iranian involvement. Some bloggers question the western text on the weapons, but the military has a ready explanation even for that: MORE »

The DoD prepared a report investigating the work of the DoD’s pre-war intelligence outfit headed by Douglas Feith, the dumbest fucking guy on the planet. The result of that report? The Office of Special Plans made a lot of shit up, misled Congress, spun and abused intelligence, and didn’t break any laws. MORE »

When we got an email from the Department of Defense’s press office headlined “Medics Clear Rats From Saddam Hussein’s Bunker,” we knew we had just the story to round out a half-day of posting on the afternoon before a Ford day weekend. But when we went to look for the promised pictures of rats in Saddam Hussein’s bunker, we found only a 404. MORE »

DoD staffers aren’t even waiting for the official Senate vote; they’re so sick of Rumsfeld that portraits of Robert Gates are already on the walls. MORE »

Robert “I’m Not Rumsfeld” Gates has been almost officially put in charge of a big stinking mess. The Senate committee gave the “former” CIA spook and Iran-Contra crook a unanimous vote and now the full Senate will overwhelmingly vote for him. Good luck, bro. MORE »

The U.S. command in Baghdad is seeking bidders for a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for monitoring the tone of Iraq news stories filed by U.S. and foreign media.

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• British police arrested 21 people in connection with a plot to smuggle liquid explosives onto airliners traveling between London and the US. Americans may no longer bring liquids or gels onto planes. If traveling, expect delays. [NYT, WP, WP]

• Joe Lieberman’s independent run for reelection may or may not help other Democratic races in the state of Connecticut. Meanwhile, Democratic leaders (in a “rare show of unity”) embraced Ned Lamont. [NYT, [WP]
• “David A. Burtt II, director of the Counterintelligence Field Activity, the Defense Department’s newest intelligence agency whose contracts based on congressional earmarks are under investigation by the Pentagon and federal prosecutors, told his staff yesterday that he and his deputy director will resign at the end of the month.” [WP]
• Condoleezza Rice’s attempts at solving the current Israeli/Lebanese conflict are hindered by her need to please different and warring ideological sides of the Bush administration’s foreign policy team. [NYT]
• A membo by Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee could cause the Duke Cunningham corruption case to widen further. [LAT]

Oh, Christ. MORE »