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For the benefit of scarcrest, I feel obligated to post monkey related news.

Man forced to give up Monkies

This morning is going okay. My cats were very cute and affectionate this morning, but I still made it to work on time. :-)

War on Iraq: “The New Pentagon Papers”

I would love for you folks to read this article by retired Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski from salon.com and tell me what you think:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp/index.html

It’s a long one, but I find it very compelling. What intrigues me about the individual who wrote this, is that she is not from the liberal right, in fact much of her contributions are conservative in nature.

Excerpt:
In the spring of 2002, I was a cynical but willing staff officer, almost two years into my three-year tour at the office of the secretary of defense, undersecretary for policy, sub-Saharan Africa. In April, a call for volunteers went out for the Near East South Asia directorate (NESA). None materialized. By May, the call transmogrified into a posthaste demand for any staff officer, and I was "volunteered" to enter what would be a well-appointed den of iniquity.
The education I would receive there was like an M. Night Shyamalan movie -- intense, fascinating and frightening. While the people were very much alive, I saw a dead philosophy -- Cold War anti-communism and neo-imperialism -- walking the corridors of the Pentagon. It wore the clothing of counterterrorism and spoke the language of a holy war between good and evil. The evil was recognized by the leadership to be resident mainly in the Middle East and articulated by Islamic clerics and radicals. But there were other enemies within, anyone who dared voice any skepticism about their grand plans, including Secretary of State Colin Powell and Gen. Anthony Zinni.