Blog breakfast

First of all, I must wish the lovely Mrs. Holmes a happy anniversary. I love you! Thanks for tolerating me all these years.

The big story this morning - via Right on Red - continues to be Russia's involvement in the moving of weapons before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March of 2003. JWR was on this last night when Drudge broke the story, and while I'm not shocked by Russia's involvement, I am surprised by the depth of their involvement with Hussein right up to the end.

Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned.

John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.

"The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units."

JWR obtained an exclusive interview with a fly on the wall at Karl Rove's Republican Death Star HQ that is worth reading. Is Rove really this brilliant, or is it more catastrophic stupidity on the part of the Lurch camp?

LGF has news about another weapons cache that you should know about. And you won't be too surprised that Kerry's home country of France is in on the coverup. (via Jawa Central)

Meanwhile, out in space...


There are more eclipse photos here, if you're interested. It was pretty spectacular from our vantage point.

Elsewhere, in a Palestinian hellhole, Arafat appears to be on his deathbed. Some rocket scientist over there realized that perhaps Palestinian doctors weren't going to be very effective in helping ol' Yassir, so they've hauled in some Jordanian medics to help out. I hope it's not a quick expiration for Arafat - it needs to be a long, drawn-out, very painful road to an eternal dirt nap.

Well, better get to work. Hopefully Blogger will function properly today - I'm not counting on it, though.