In one of the rare instances where shooter said something that's not wrong, he noted that a lot of the GWB strategy is to lead our enemies to assume the worst. There's no doubt in my mind that the "leak" was deliberate and designed to let the Iranians worry that there are indeed 5 missiles with their names on them now conveniently located in Louisiana.

I love how "Bush" is a strategic genius when it comes to deception and perceptual manipulation, but a complete moron otherwise. Maybe you're right, but isn't that making the assumption that Bush is "clever"? Perhaps I am arguing semantics, but I don't see "Bush" as being "clever like a fox" as much as his minions. I mean, the guy almost cracked his skull eating popcorn...

No, if anyone in the administration deliberately leaked this I doubt it came from the stick gathering cowboy, it probably came from Cheney and his PNAC acolytes. It would make sense seeing as how this week kicked off the Iran War Propaganda Campaign in order for PNAC to pay back AIPAC for its help Iraq. I also think Rove lost the "Iran Argument" with Cheney and took off before the propaganda blitz.

And it is nice to throw it on the "blame Bush" pile and get the warm fuzzy feeling, but if it was not a deliberate "accident" somebody risked a lot to try and tell us something...

I heard that Petraeus has been working extra hard training his dog and pony. Rumor has it that the most difficult part is getting the dog to stay on the saddle.

The irony is that the real Hillary probably hasn't had any nuts between her legs for decades.

Bonus War Room poll question: How long will it take before a Bush administration official cites the purported bin Laden tape as proof that we must stay the course in Iraq?

Isn't the whole point of the tape to do just that? Iraq was the best gift Bush could have given to OBL, and OBL returns the favor with these "tapes" (or the CIA fabricates them).

What a perfect time for the tape too, right before the Petraeus' Congressional Dog and Pony show and the AIPAC/Cheney Lets Attack Iran Propaganda blitz. That Bin Laden is such a thoughtful guy.

OBL might as well turn in his robes for an Uncle Sam costume or put on a black suit and a top hat and start calling himself Abe Lincoln, because all he is doing is promoting the agenda of the State.

failing patriarchal systems

yer funny.

Miss South Carolina would probably agree, stating that patriarchal systems are failing because not all people have access to patriarchal systems, and that as US Americans it is our responsibility to make sure that all the South Africas and Iraqs have access to the same systems that she did, in order to show the South Africas and Iraqs how successful failing patriarchal systems have been in making her a liberated, informed, articulate, modern American woman.

Is there a Hillary Clinton Bratz doll? I'm sure Rockefeller will come up with one, just like his family came up with and bankrolled Women's lib in order to get them into the market place so that the Federal Reserve (i.e. the international banks that run it) can collect income taxes on their labor. Pretty simple actually, housewives don't pay income taxes and working women do.