3 Blind Mice
1. Al-Jazeera columnist Scott Ritter claims that January's historic election in Iraq, which set off a wave of democratic reform throughout the Middle East, was fixed to prevent the Shia's from attaining a majority of seats in the Iraqi Parliament.
Ritter explained that the Bush Administration "cooked" the election results in some Super-Secret, Cloak-and-Dagger, Machine-Gun-Guarded, Spy-Novel recount so that there wouldn't be a democratically elected theocracy in Iraq.
I hear Oliver Stone is already planning to make a movie about it.
2. Another nationwide strike in France. Mon dieu!
3. The communists are weighing in with their predictable distaste for the Bush Administration's plan for Privatized Social Security (which pretty much guarantees that it's an economically sound plan with a decent potential for real-world success).