Why I don't think Bush has integrity:

These comments from Republican senators pretty much sum it up.

And also today, John McCain said Bush had been "perhaps not as straight as maybe we'd like to see."

Well, yeah.

And here's why I think Rumsfeld has no integrity:

"The Secretary of Defense said in February we have trained 220,000 Iraqi military - what did he say? - 'an amazing accomplishment'. And that was malarky. Then he said last Friday, a week ago Friday, we've trained 95,000. We had a witness before us from the State Department on Thursday at Dick's hearings, I asked them, I said: 'To the best of my knowledge, Rumsfeld is saying 32,000 cops have been trained, to the best of my knowledge not one single Iraqi policeman has gone through the full compliment of training, is that true?' And the administration witness said 'yes, that's true.'"
- Joe Biden (this week)

Cheney? : points to Halliburton (not the employees, the management)

And Powell? He just makes me cry. I wanted to believe him, last Spring. I really did. I still want to believe his words now, and I try to. But it breaks my heart.

Soft launch

Thanks to shakespearechic, and FANLIB, FictionAlley is thrilled to announce our newest "everyone's invited" fanfic project - we're hosting a collaborative writing of Hogwarts: A History! More info to come later, but check it out and please, please consider writing a submission for one of the chapters. This one lets you get all into Camelot-stuff! Wheee!

And yes, there's a reason we're doing the launch on Hermione's birthday. We think she'd be pleased (if she were, you know, real).

And did I profess my adoration for shakespearechic?

Follow-up

The prosecutor dismissed the charges against the mom who lost her son in Iraq, saying they'd serve no useful purpose.