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Scrapbook The South Park Division Shortly before Christmas, The Scrapbook read what seemed to be the 800th or so story we've seen on Iraqi ingratitude toward Americans. While American soldiers...
...The Army would not approve of such a thing...
...I recognized at the time that these privacy risks were just abstract worries, but I accepted the conventional wisdom: 'However theoretical the risks to civil liberties may be, they cannot be ignored.' . . . "I was wrong, but not alone, in assigning a high importance to theoretical privacy risks...
...In hindsight, that choice seems little short of feckless, for it made the failures of August and September 2001 nearly inevitable...
...While American soldiers have spent the last eight months getting shot, getting RpG'ed, and getting mortared, many Iraqis, no longer fearful of having relatives disappeared in the night by Saddam's various goon squads, have tripped upon a new national pastime: whining like little girls...
...I thought I would upchuck...
...Another problem: That irresistible observation isn't hers...
...When we asked a U.S...
...Then came the rapier: "Danged if this don't remind me of an old left-wing quotation: 'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.'" Tear Down This Wall Not to be missed is the Dec...
...But such a flippant approach to the mission would not be something that the Army would approve of...
...Although she's a graduate of Smith College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and once worked as the Rocky Mountain bureau chief for the New York Times, this darling of the liberal establishment wants you to think of her as a populist with a pen...
...Some choice excerpts: "Earlier this month, as fears of new al Qaeda attacks mounted, the Justice Department announced new FBI guidelines that would allow intelligence and law enforcement agents to work together on terrorism investigations...
...And on Sept...
...It dates back to at least 1987, and credit belongs to Australian journalist and television host Clive James, according to Australian blogger Tim Blair, whose coverage drew our eye to this latest instance of Ivins plagiarism...
...Yup—she's a repeat offender...
...This was not the most profound observation I have ever made about serious public affairs, but it's irresistible...
...In a 1988 Mother Jones piece, Ivins ripped off the inimitable Florence King's riff on southerners from her 1975 book Southern Ladies and Gentlemen: "The typical Southerner," wrote King, —Brags about what a conservative he is and then votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Jassem himself had been a Saddam victim...
...Its inscription: "Busting My Ass to Save Yours—Operation Iraqi Freedom...
...11, 2001, that wall probably cost us 3,000 American lives...
...The latest evidence came when the New York Times's intrepid John Burns parked himself at a diner in Tikrit, and had a chat with Hatim Jassem, a 35-year-old theology professor...
...The aw-shucks southern gal has been a writin' and a cussin' and a truth-tellin' longer than a newborn calf sucking on the hind teat of...
...Because the alternative is to maintain a wall of separation between law enforcement and intelligence...
...Instead of the traditional Ranger tab or airborne patch, it bears the likeness of a smiling camel, surrounded by characters from South Park—presumably stand-ins for ugly Americans...
...Or brags about what a populist he is and then votes for Barry Goldwater...
...Army spokesperson at the Pentagon if it had their seal of approval, she chuckled nervously, saying the patch cannot be worn on uniforms...
...I still have the scars on my back—but it could have been worse...
...Though Hassem threw America some bones, admitting that his people would never have been liberated without American intervention, in the middle of the interview, he went from condemning Hussein to castigating U.S...
...My name is strewn through this [Mother Jones] article, but never where it counts...
...King later blew the whistle on Ivins...
...Because the Army wants to ensure soldiers treat people in other countries with dignity and respect, and would never authorize something like that which contains vulgarity...
...Personally, I use the word all the time...
...Consider these "gems" from recent columns: * "Well, now, danged if that doesn't bring us to the subject of lying and the White House...
...One problem THE SCRAPBOOK has with Ivins is that she recycled that walnuts quote, which she first included in a September column, a month later in an appearance on CNN: "I went out to California to look at this race and came back saying, oh, Gray Davis makes Mr...
...An ACLU spokesman was quick to condemn the guidelines as creating the possibility of 'an end run around Fourth Amendment requirements.' I used to worry about that possibility myself...
...She credits me on minor observations, but when the subject is politics—her turf—she plagiarizes me...
...That's what we used to do...
...I'm sure this is something, let me put it this way," she struggled...
...Denial is not just a river in Egypt...
...Rogers look like he was on steroids, and Arnold Schwarzenegger looks exactly like a condom stuffed with walnuts...
...After warning his brother not to get too close to Saddam's forces, one of Saddam's eavesdropping bodyguards imprisoned him for six weeks...
...One problem I have with Arnold Schwarzenegger is that he looks like a condom stuffed with walnuts...
...In fact, in 1994, after I left my job as general counsel to the National Security Agency, I argued that the wall should be left in place...
...Now they can—sort of...
...They tortured me," Jassem said...
...Our sentiments exactly...
...well, you get the idea...
...News & World Report's Mark Mazzetti kindly shared with us a semi-official looking insignia patch that can be purchased at both the base in the Baghdad International Airport and the PX in Camp Doha, Kuwait...
...Read the whole thing, as they say, at http://slate.msn.com/id/2093344...
...After a recent trip to Baghdad, U.S...
...Or brags about what an isolationist he is and then votes for Richard Nixon...
...There She Goes Again That Molly Ivins shore is somethin' else...
...Or brags about what an aristocrat he is and then votes for George Wallace...
...troops for the "humiliation" Saddam was forced to endure during his arrest...
...Not any more...
...The Scrapbook suggests having the patch translated into Arabic, so it can be worn by Iraqis—just as a helpful reminder...
...It was a post-Watergate fix meant to protect Americans, not kill them...
...That 'wall' . . . was put in place to protect against a hypothetical risk to civil liberties that might arise if domestic law enforcement and foreign intelligence missions were allowed to mix...
...Latest...
...I can't imagine it having anything official to do with the Army...
...And is able to say with a straight face that he sees nothing peculiar about any of the above...
...That, according to Burns, turned into a 90-minute vinegar session about Americans...
...31 mea culpa in Slate from Stewart Baker, former general counsel of the National Security Agency (1992-1994), decrying the "wall between intelligence and law enforcement...
...Staying safely on message, she added, "We're there to help the people of Iraq...
...It's enough to make soldiers want to vent...
Vol. 9 • January 2004 • No. 17
