Wednesday Instahoglets

By Cernig

- They love us, they really...ummm. Marc Lynch on a new poll which says American bases in the Persian Gulf are almost universally detested.

- So why is the US there? Iran? Gareth Porter writes that "Iran is seen as having ambitions of regional hegemony, but it lacks the military power normally associated with such a role".

- Federal obligations now exceed the collective net worth of all Americans. Does that mean the U.S. is bankrupt? 

- George W. Bush: “I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.” Watch rightwing heads explode. Hands up those who remember when Dubya could do no wrong in their eyes. Nothing from Powerline yet, though - it's going to be hard to walk back "A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius... like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

- Imagine the scene: an enraged George Tenet, drunk on scotch, flailing about Prince Bandar's Riyadh pool, screaming about the Bush Administration officials who were just then trying to pin the Iraq WMD fiasco on him. "They're setting me up. The bastards are setting me up," Tenet said, but "I am not going to take the hit...According to one witness, he mocked the neoconservatives in the Bush administration and their alignment with the rlght wing of Israel's political establishment, referring to them with exaxperation as, "the Jews." Tenet denies ever being in the pool, and if he was he was never drunk, and if he was he didn't say those words.

Comments

[Peter G.]

I love these Instahoglets. I keep finding fascinating links to sites I'd never encounter on my own. If this is a renewed practice then I hope you don't let it lapse.