(with apologies to the late, great Richard Pryor) A few weeks back while “researching” John McCain’s al Qaeda “gaffes” I hit upon a strange article in the New York Sun by Eli Lake and blogged on it (). I say strange because the piece made reference to a portion of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that, according to the official briefer, National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats Edward Gistaro, didn’t and doesn’t exist. Note: When I originally read the story from the Sun, I didn’t know it was “one of those kinds” of newspapers: While the Sun claims “150,000 of New York City’s Most Influential Readers Every Day,” according to April 2007 article in The Nation, its [the Sun’ s] own audit indicates that “the Sun is selling 13,211 hard copies a day and giving away more than 85,000. (By contrast, the Daily News sells about 700,000 copies a day.) In an attempt to lasso subscribers in certain New York, the Sun recently offered free subscriptions for a full year, an unusual way for a newspaper to build circulation.” (from wikipedia entry for ) So, today at work, I’m listening to and Mr. Lake is a participant in a debate on the Iranian influence in Iraq.

Towards the middle of the interview, Democracy Now! Anchor and debate moderator Amy Goodman couldn’t resist zinging Lake on the controversy over the facts of his “story”: Amy Goodman: Eli Lake, I wanted to ask you about a piece you had written, “Iran is Found to be a Lair of Al Qaeda,” and I’m reading now from the American Conservative, a piece by Justin Logan. In the catagory of “I can’t make this stuff up” I just learned, via a on Democracy Now!, that David Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney from New Mexico fired by Alberto Gonzales, was the basis for the U.S. Navy Lawyer character Danny Caffee from the movie “A Few Good Men.” Again, a little more clearly, in the movie “A Few Good Men” Tom Cruise was playing. This is a revelation to me because this seems like an interesting bit of infotainment that everyone in America should know. Why, you ask?

Because Americans want to believe in decency and fair play. They want to believe in the Good Guy (Aka the Tom Cruise/David Iglesius character in “A Few Good Men”) standing up for what is right and true and exposing and/or defeating the evildoers. Imagine the PR nightmare for Alberto Gonzales, Karl Rove, and, yes, President Bush if this info was widely known–that they fired a U.S. Navy hero J.A.G. Lawyer who served as the basis for Tom Cruise’s character in a great-American movie.

“So,” the now informed American citizen says, “that would make Gonzales, Rove and Dubya the—GASP—-bad guys!” YES. Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the Greg Palast piece at the webpage and learn more about or by googling him.

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International Women’s Day: Quick explanation: I work nights at the Post Office (insert your joke here) and I do most of my blogging between the hours of 3 and 5 A.M. Therefore, I totally missed writing about the International Women’s Day (March 8, 2007) on the actual I.W. So, belatedly, yesterday was International Women’s Day. In related news, I lost a bet with my mother about the 19 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (which gave Women the right to vote in 1920) when I stated that this country was still racist and sexist and women have only had the right to vote for about the last 50 years.