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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:00 AM

Col. Boylan's denial

A response to the first clear denial of e-mail authorship from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman.

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  • Tuesday, October 30, 2007 07:15 AM

    Egypt Steve

    Isn't this moving into "obsession" territory now?

    I wrote about this for the first time on Sunday. Today is Tuesday. That's 48 hours. I think we have different definitions of "obssession."

    If there were a nuclear war and a blogger wrote about that, there would always be someone in comments -- or several people -- to come and say: "I don't like this topic. Write about X or Y instead. Move on."

    The good thing about blogging is that one writes about whatever one finds most interesting and where one thinks the biggest impact can be made.

    I explained why I think the story is significant. I intend to see it through. The titles indicate what I'm writing about. If you're not interested in this topic, there isn't anything preventing you from skipping it (it will most likely have the word "Boylan" in it).

    Can we move on, now? This blog is a lot more interesting when you take on the big boys.

    Yeah - sorry for writing about someone as petty and small as the Public Affairs Officer and official Spokesman for the Supreme Commanding General in the Iraq War.

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