Does anybody else think it's strange that both Jack Straw and Porter Goss

[librechik]

get the boot within 24 hrs?


It makes my spider sense tingle.

[movonne]

1. Do you have any thoughts on this???

[1956]

3. It either has to do with

a coverup or someone refusing to go along with a coverup for all the nonstop fuckups the Bushco folx have thrown out! I really can't think of any other reason for it.

[az chela]

2. they just said on hardball that Goss was fired

[converted_democrat]

6. Really? Hmmmm.. Thanks for the heads up, I just turned Hardball

on..

[Kutjara]

4. They're going to confess...

...that they've been lovers for the past fifteen years and are sick of living a lie. They want to claim their birthright as emancipated gay men and live the remainder of they days together, their lightly oiled bodies entwined around eachother in silken embrace as their eager tongues <censored by Americans With Weak Stomachs>

[converted_democrat]

5. It crossed my mind as well.. I would love to be smart enough to figure

all this out.. Pre-war intelligence?

[Tuesday_Morning]

7. The Labour Party didn't do so well

in the election....so they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenberg.

[katty]

8. ahh yeah...quite strange indeed-it's not like Jack needed to run

out the door the same day as Porter.

[crappyjazz]

9. Yes, it made me wonder for some odd reason

Wasn't Straw the guy that said nuking Iran was "nuts" or something like that? Maybe Goss wasn't willing to tow the line and back up any intelligence claims for prewar Iran propaganda?

[Kutjara]

10. The UK situation may be a bit different.

Blair is turning out to be the lamest of lame ducks and, in such cases, it's not unheard of for those who think they've got a chance of being the next head honcho to distance themselves from the current regime. Usually, it takes the form of flamboyant resignations on 'points of principle' (as if a politician even knows what one of those is), but the real reason is to get outside the tent to facilitate (in the words of Harry Truman) pissing in.

While Charles Clarke ejection was clearly a sacking, I think Jackie may be setting himself up for a run at the brass ring.

[ladjf]

11. The U.S. and British goverments work for the same company.