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A CARNIVAL OF IRAQ PRE-WAR INTELLIGENCE: WHAT WE KNEW, WHEN WE KNEW IT, AND WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN GOING INTO THE IRAQ WAR.

On Friday, OSM (now back to being called Pajamas Media again) extended an open-invitation to bloggers everywhere, requesting posts on the topic of Iraq pre-war intelligence. Read on to find out where the bodies (or WMDs) are buried. Glenn Reynolds, our uber blogger and Chair of their Advisory Board has made sure that all the posts sent by the bloggers are included.

So dig in and enjoy.

For those of you who have missed it and would like to check out the opening party of Pajama Media Formerly Known As OSM, with updates please step this way. On that note we have updates from Roger L.Simon and OSM ahem Pajama Media about their final decision to go back to their original name. So now the pajamas are back on, and everyone can shut the....up!

L.A. Shawn Barber quite rightly says "Why Tamper with a good thing?" Indeed. And everyone is happy...., well almost everyone.

Comments

[Asher Abrams]

Alexandra -

Just want to let you know I'm enjoying your wonderful blog. I think Pajamas Media will be a success; time will tell.

BTW, would that be a picture of one of those "rabid attack poodles" ... ?

[funloving_spiritofecstasy]

I personally do not think it serves the protagonists to entertain the partisan antagonists in the blogosphere. Their premises are often irrelevant. ie; "I" noticed you didn't dot an i. Or; Excuse me, do you have room at your blog for my 8' x 10' protest banner, I just happened to bring it along?

There is a myth surrounding debate. The myth is that any debate has merit. Pragmatism evaporates within false constructs.

It is pseudo intellectual play. People who are really hungry will think only of eating and say so but care not about anything else. People who hunger for other things will also reveal their motive in their actions.

There is also a myth surrounding the Internet. That is; The Internet will or should break all concious and unconcious patterns of nature and mathematics by "theoretically" becoming egalitarian. Why do I laugh when I write that?

hmmm....Something upbeat???.......Oh oh oh......GASOLINE PRICES ARE DOWN!*!*! Goodbye cynacism! Gas prices are down!

[C. McDonough]

Excuse me?

I have said to people that your blog is quite handsome.

I have not tried to trash either you, or your blog.

If I recall, I thanked you for your help with the track back, and have not been "bitchy" at all.

If you are referring to the point I made (in another post) that there some on the Right side of the Blogosphere that did not seem to want a dialog, you will please note that, in the content of the posts I made, that I did not say that you had made any such efforts to denigrate dialog.

The comment about the link to Dennis The Peasant was a simple one -- perhaps a note in the text around the link such as "as noted before..."

If you don't want dialog, fine.

If you don't want someone to even read, fine.

If you wish I'll remove "All Things Beautiful" from the blogroll.

Have fun

[jeff stiles]

"Goodbye and good luck"?

YOU are not leaving us, are you Alexandra? :)

[Alexandra]

MCDONOUGH

"The "point" was I was anticipating some new, more relevant, linkage, not a recycle without notice".

What are you talking about?

This article is about the carnival of some 50 blogs of extremely interesting material on the subject of pre-war intelligence, which if you bothered to read is ALL NEW, as in Pajamas has just printed it, and I certainly have not before.

Secondly, I SAY THAT “...FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT BEEN TO THE LAUNCH PARTY...”, AND I GIVE THE URL FOR MY UPDATED ARTICLE, AND THE LINK TO DENNIS' STORY WOULD BE UNFAIR NOT TO INCLUDE — BTW GIVING THE MOST BALANCED AND DETAILED TAKE ON HIS STORY.

I don't expect my readers to search for URLs; I take great care to ensure that my readers can access and follow the stories in the easiest and most informative manner possible; I give them EVERYTHING I have on the subject. The article about Lyden is the latest.

It strikes me that you have always bitchy things to say, and are a sour puss yourself. If you have NEVER anything to say on your own blog or mine that is half way fair about what I write I suggest YOU BUGGER OFF and read someone else's blog.

You were introduced to me by the sheer fact that you were the new kid on the left block and did not know how to TrackBack. I dropped what I was doing and wrote extensively several long emails to help you achieve that and explain HTML. You then managed to finally TrackBack and the thanks I got was that you wrote MORE bitchy things about my articles. Way to make friends and influence people McDonough, good show...

Quite honestly McDonough, I blog because I truly enjoy writing; my Father was a writer and it's something I love together with interacting with people, no matter what political denomination they are, and if you look at my comment section, you’ll rarely see one like it in the Blogosphere. People bother explaining at lengths their POVs. Your comments always have something bitchy and PERSONALLY biting in them (despite your disingenuous smiley, delivered with a stab in the back), and I HATE receiving them. THEY UPSET ME. Perhaps you got lost on your way to Atrios.

I would therefore ask you to GO AND READ SOMEONE ELSE'S BLOG, and leave me to do the things I know how to do: not only to inform the readers who read my blog constantly but to welcome and cater for the new ones who would like to catch up, NO MATTER WHAT POLITICAL DENOMINATION. My articles always have a huge amount of links, which is incredibly time consuming to compile. I notice on your blog you only give a limited amount of links which are ALWAYS SIMPLY TO SUPPORT YOUR OWN RHETORIC. I don't do that , which is why I get polite and interesting discussion with the entire Blogosphere be they libs, dems or cons. I note that your idea of appreciating other people's efforts extends to a monotonous repetiotion of "The Moderate Voice has an EXHAUSTIVE round up", which you repeat ad nauseam, at every given opportunity in your posts. Try doing one yourself and see what it takes to do. This is why experienced bloggers like Michelle Malkin appreciates them, and understands how time consuming they are.

Goodbye and good luck

[spiritofecstasy]

...think I agree. If a group is competing to reach the socially stratified depths of natural selection, as would be a moveon or dailyk, they needed to do a heck of alot more than these guys/gals did.

They were surely lacking in the diligence needed to anchor to the bottom. Kinda like missing the opportunity of being confused over a 403 to 3 vote on a "non-binding" proposal, which was singularly and temporarily "uplifting".

Furthermore they made the critical mistake of not following jr.marxist strategy. That is; to represent their love of authority and their love of country in written text used by Islamic guerilla agitprop media/internet worldwide. Then they missed again by ignoring 5766 years of legacy, with a blind venomous condemnation of Israel, thus crushing a chance to bond with "the people."

And they probably forgot to call CSPAN and play "let's pretend!"

Too bad they didn't study under Ward AK-47 Churchill who surely would have raised their stature in more ways than one.

Okay okay, I'm being too harsh. But I lost at the track!

[C. McDonough]

"You have also aready read my previous article on OSM that I link to as well, so what's your point?"

The "point" was I was anticipating some new, more relevent, linkage, not a recycle without notice.

As a friend from Georgia is wont to say "I've got no dog in this hunt."

//insert little smiley face here //

I really don't care about whether OSM/PM calls themselves "Little Green Jammies." I would have expected that the Leading Lights behind the project would have been a little more savvy than to use a name like "Open Source Media." My first thought was "are they writing device drivers?"

And a Google search would have brought up Chris Lyden's website.

This was/is to be a commercial venture (or so we presume, with the VC cash), so due diligence would have been expected.

S'OK?

[North by Northwest]

Love it - kill two birds with one stone: Jam the jaws of those who took issue with 'Open Source' and who keeps spewing 'Bush lied' -- relax, I am in now way putting the two in one boot... ;-)

[jeff stiles]

On second thought, they're fine just the way God made them!

[jeff stiles]

Maybe we should let those unclad ladies who headlined a recent post wear the pajamas too? :)

[Alexandra]

You have also aready read my previous article on OSM that I link to as well, so what's your point?

[C. McDonough]

Hmm, I thought you'd already linked to that article from Dennis The Peasant?

Is the biscuit bone for us?

How thoughful.