More stuff you should be reading instead of pretending that this blog will bring you enlightenment… #

• Check out Disinfopedia, the online encyclopedia of propaganda.
• The Importance Of… has a new Category called INDUCE Act. Each day, the site will list a new device or technology that would be threatened by Orrin Hatch’s miserable bill.
• US News has a sickening report on the extent of the miserable conditions at Abu Ghraib prison. (via The Poor Man)
• I miss Atrios’s stuff, but Holden has been a fine fill-in at Eschaton lately. Today, he questions Tom DeLay’s ethics, and snips a bit from a BBC piece on Tony Blair’s ethics. The latter is, I think, especially important to read. The British have a seemingly more-developed moral compass when it comes to holding their own politicians to account. The Beeb’s piece reminds us that many – perhaps most? – of the world outside of the Blair and Bush administrations did not buy into the idea that Iraq needed to be invaded. Despite indications in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report that American intelligence analysts conspired to mislead Congress and the public about Iraq’s weapons-making capabilities, both administrations are now trying the spin that they were misled by their intelligence agencies. Tony Blair goes so far as to claim a “global intelligence failure,” as if that lets these administrations off the hook. But as Dame Pauline Neville-Jones points out, even if we accept that spin, Bush and Blair are ultimately responsible for these failures, and their acceptance of faulty intelligence would indicate their incompetence as leaders. True statesmen – true patriots – accept the responsibility for failure because they understand that “falling on the sword” makes it possible for true reconstruction to begin.
• Kevin Drum busts open the Senate Intelligence Committee report and sees it for what it is – an indictment of the Bush administration and an indication of their complete failure to justify the war.
• Create your own Presidential address. (via Eschaton)
• Bob Schieffer asks Congress to get serious about doing their job to improve the lives of American citizens. (Fox News Hounds)

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