Posted by Katherine Long
Did Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz really say that Iraq was not involved in the 9-11 attack, as the New Zealand news agency Scoop claims? It's worth taking a close reading of the transcript of his radio interview on the Department of Defense Web site.
"I’m not sure even now that I would say Iraq had something to do with it," Wolfowitz said, a confusing start to a broader answer about terrorism in general.
Read the transcript and decide for yourself.
Halliburton, the company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, is enjoying the spoils of war, its competitors complain. In a New York Times story today, rivals say the bidding process to rebuild Iraq favors Halliburton. It's all about timing: "In the last month, the (U.S. Army) corps, which is overseeing the reconstruction efforts, has specified a timetable for the work that effectively means that the value of any contract companies other than Halliburton could win would be worth only about $176 million, according to Corps of Engineers documents and executives in the engineering and construction business."
Here's an alternative view of the Indonesian bombing: it was a real failure, a New York Post columnist argues. "The terrorists dream of destroying the United States and bringing down Western civilization, of purifying their own societies and imposing their degenerate version of Islam on all of humankind. So they marshal their resources - and blow up a hotel lobby.
"It doesn't sound as if they're making much progress."
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