Posted by zeugma on November 8, 2006, at 19:57:59
In reply to oops, 1991 (nm), posted by zeugma on November 8, 2006, at 19:37:39
posting this must make me as bleary as the eyes of those who read this- apoplexy is a poor state in which to conduct fact-checking- and when I praised Dinah for dispassion, part of that- only part- is that details would have been gotten right.
Gates was approved despite doubts from the agency he headed, but never signed on permanently. He was head of the CIA during Gulf War I.The Kurds may bear some bitterness to him. As might some Shiites.
Perhaps, instead of striking back at exuberant Democrats flushed with electoral victory, this is a move to keep al-Maliki in line?
-z
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