Stuff I Read Today 10/12/06

Study claims Iraq's 'excess' death toll has reached 655,000

Bush comments on the 655,000 figure by - how else? - saying it's 'not credible' - Never mind that it's 20 times the figure of 30,000 he gave in December.

The religious right's crusade for 'decency' - Delusional Pharisees strip themselves of all dignity and credibility yet again.

Here's some interesting musings about not only how Foley has given Democrats a huge lead, but why it takes a sex scandal rather than 655,000 deaths or a police state to get people demanding change.

The two faces of Rumsfeld - 2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea. 2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change.

No troop reduction in Iraq before 2010!

Pyongyang 1, Bush 0

Shop with dollars or we'll change your regime - Iraq, Iran and North Korea -- Nutsack's Axis of Evil -- are the only three countries to abandon the U.S. dollar for petroleum (petrodollar) and/or other trade transactions. Read more about it here. And here. And here. And here. And here. And here. And here. And here.