comes a choice quote by Dick Cheney: “And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam Hussein worth? And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait [in 1991], but also when the president made the decision that wed achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq…” Read the whole quote in The Australian.
Archives for October 2004
The news in the blog world
is that Evan Williams is leaving the Blogger team at Google. I think I’d be ready for a sabbatical too after that kind of ride.
Boing Boing
People who enjoy peace and quiet
in the US have won a victory as the Supreme Court has decided it won’t hear Do Not Call case. Telemarketers have been trying to invoke First Amendment rights to have the lists quashed.
The Times’ Jim Rutenberg
has written a nice overview of the first Presidential debate and it’s aftermath: