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• President Bush wants us to believe that everything is going super-terrific well in Iraq, that democracy is on the march and that the electoral process is bringing hope and flowers and funnel cake to the misbegotten motherfuckers of Mesopotamia. BUT IF THAT IS TRUE: Why is the Pentagon sending their PAIN RAY (!?) to Iraq? [DefenseTech.org] MORE »

NY Times scribe David Sanger, on the Asian beat with the president’s entourage this past week, files a report on Bush’s moment of respite from the cares and worries that go with defending an unpopular war. Mongolia, it turns out, is a merciful waystation where “presidential entertainment is vivid”: MORE »