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as long as the present occupants of the white house continue to occupy the white house, you can't really expect us to believe that they would begin moving nuclear weapons around for no particular reason, do you mr. arkin? let's be clear about one thing here. we already know a proxy war is underway in the kurdish territories with iran. even the british have as much as stated that they have been tangling with iranian operatives for some time. the northern airbase at taji north of baghdad has been used for such purposes(refer to iranian and u.s. helicopter shootdowns over the past 2 mos.) if the congress and senate select commitees are aware of this the public has the right to know. we also have the right to question and exhibit extreme concern over the policies of the neo-cons. desperate times most generally generate desperate actions. and we all know that bush and cheney are exhibiting tendencies which makes any rational human being extremely wary of any thing they do or say. so a few "errant" nuclear weapons are bound to alarm even the most level headed american citizen. what has been lost here? beyond a few nuclear warheads, the trust of the american citizenry: and rightfully so. keep an eye out for us will you, mr. arkin? see if you can corral that elusive word; accountability.

Robert James, an endorsement from GW Bush is surely the political kiss of death, but it might have been slightly less toxic if Bush had remembered that the troops John Howard sent him go by the title of "Australians", not "Austrians" as GW called them in his speech.

For some of us, APEC is a very important meeting. However, WAPO has gone AWOL on this one. I guess its brilliant editor forgot that important events outside the USA, Europe and the Middle East are worth reporting.

One of the little things that you forgot is that APEC covers about 50% of the world's trade.

It might interest you to know that George The Village Idiot, when making a speech, referred to APEC as OPEC. Thankfully, one of his aides put him right.

Bush also tried to help his friend, Prime Minister John Howard, win the upcoming Federal election by endorsing him. Well, it backfired.

Apparently, George thinks that interfering in the internal affairs of another nation is OK but I gather that Putin, Hu, Brown Merkel and others should not even contemplate trying to influence the Presidential election.

"So, kindly explain to me why the definitive story on the definitive question of the season is published on page A16 of yesterday's Post? Yes, please explain that. You're back to your old ways, my friends, nipping at the bottle.

And the DeYoung story is not the only example. I'm also tracking the editorial page very closely. As I have noted previously, Ayad Allawi has been running around Washington with bags of very dubious money and an army of high-powered K Street consultants and PR wizards. And suddenly I see his fingerprints all over your editorial page. He gets an op-ed, and one of your columnists runs a piece that sounds remarkably like the pitch that his PR firm is making."

An Open Letter to The Washington Post from Scott Horton, Editor, Harpers:

A Letter to the Editors of the 'Washington Post'
DEPARTMENT No Comment
BY Scott Horton
PUBLISHED September 7, 2007

Dear Editors:

You employ one of the most gifted group of reporters in the newspaper industry. But I'm puzzled. You don't really seem to appreciate the resources you've got or to play them to best effect. That's been a persistent problem, but in the last couple of weeks, it's gotten to be chronic. Back in the run-up to the Iraq War, you caught war fever. You abandoned your professional commitment to detached and disinterested reporting, and instead you decided to beat the drums of war. While you editors were running about like a squadron of headless chickens, your reporters were doing some of the best research and analysis published. You rewarded them for this by publishing their work buried deep in the back of the paper. Not on page A1 above the fold where it belonged--but on pages A-16-20. (Of course, this had some perverse consequences, including the compulsion I still find when picking up the Post of leafing quickly past the first dozen or so pages and looking deep inside, where the important reporting usually appears).

You gave us a statement of contrition over your wayward practices leading up to the Iraq War. You promised us that you would straighten up and fly right. But it seems, amidst talk everywhere of a new fall product rollout from the White House, that there has been a relapse. Editors, my friends, I think it's time that your friends gather you in a room for an intervention. You've clearly started nipping at that bottle again. You owe it to your readers, and even more importantly to the best group of newspaper reporters anywhere on the planet, to go cold turkey. Let's just consider a few for-instances from the last couple of days.

Washington has one really Big Decision on the horizon. It revolves around Iraq. Was President Bush's "Surge" strategy a success or a failure? Public opinion polls show consistently that the public views this as a Very Big Deal. Congress, while generally quite adverse to controversial decisions about anything, appears resolved to face this one and explore it. You have chronicled the amazing back-and-forth within the Baghdad Command, the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community over the issue. It's a huge story.

And if there is one question at the core, it goes to the accepted key metric: civilian casualties. Now you assigned this story to Karen DeYoung, one of your best, and yesterday she delivered a discussion and analysis that is nothing short of brilliant--easily the best piece that has appeared on the story so far. I read it once, and then went back to the beginning and read it again, compared it with several other pieces and pretty quickly concluded that this was definitive. The reporting is steady, comprehensive, and the analysis goes like a laserbeam through a stick of butter. This Karen DeYoung is one hell of a reporter, already holds one Pulitzer and is certainly on the road to more.

So, kindly explain to me why the definitive story on the definitive question of the season is published on page A16 of yesterday's Post? Yes, please explain that. You're back to your old ways, my friends, nipping at the bottle.

And the DeYoung story is not the only example. I'm also tracking the editorial page very closely. As I have noted previously, Ayad Allawi has been running around Washington with bags of very dubious money and an army of high-powered K Street consultants and PR wizards. And suddenly I see his fingerprints all over your editorial page. He gets an op-ed, and one of your columnists runs a piece that sounds remarkably like the pitch that his PR firm is making. Is the bottle by itself not enough? Do you also have to convert the editorial page of one of the nation's best papers into the newsprint version of the Big Easy?

You also decided to participate in the Bush Administration's post-Labor Day product rollout: laying the foundations for a new war, with Iran. "We are not part of that camp," you say, referring to the "Let's bomb Iran" crew. Allow me to express my profound skepticism about that claim. You're doing their work-pretty feverishly in fact.

Editors, you need to take a good look in the mirror. You have a terrific crowd of reporters. The best in the industry. Are you worthy of the team you have working for you? The answer is no. You need to shape up or prepare to turn the helm over to some of the reporters who now give us a compelling reason to read the Post every day--ususally starting with page A16.

Sincerely, A Devoted Reader

Having spent most of my life within ten miles of Earle NWS should this news make me feel good? How about my goitre?

Mr. Arkin, I smell Blackwater whenever counterterrorism and 'security' are the subjects of an international confab.

Hey, why wasn't *I* invited? [sniff]

Let's all Americans commit ritual suicide! We're so much less competent than Russia!