A Handful of Links

Last night, I mentioned my tough time getting a good online connection and discussed a couple of things I couldn't link to. Well, my connection isn't a heck of a lot better tonight (although I'm on a laptop rather than the Blackberry), but here are the links.

The Spanish story was originally printed in El Pais, which published transcipts (in Spanish) of a talk between Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar from early in 1993. Bush clearly tells Aznar that he's planning to go to war regardless of how the UN voted. Juan Cole claims that this is an impeachable offence.

The whole Limbaugh thing has actually had some movement on it. In response to a call on Wednesday, he argued that soldiers who didn't support the Prez's Iraq policies were "phony soldiers." Media Matters has the article and the transcript. He tried to talk his way out of it and played an edited tape of the original segment with the offending material cut out to "prove" that he hadn't said it in the first place. Acting somewhat out of character, Democrats are actually holding him somewhat accountable, and even the White House has stepped away from the comments. Will the Senate vote on a resolution denouncing Limbaugh for his slur on the soldiers as they did MoveOn.org for its attack on General Petraeus? Don't hold your breath.