1 Are you saying that the "intelligence" in the memos might have been "sexed up" by the left?

2 Probably not; but it doesn't matter. Again, I wouldn't be suprised that many aides to liberal American senators have typed up such "memos."

So fucking what? Is that news? That left-leaning people don't like Bush, don't trust his motives, and think he cooked intelligence?

The left is trying to elevate a government-bureaucrat's internal op-ed piece into some sort of smoking gun evidence of a Grand Deception.

3

Examples of "fixed around" from UK web pages:

http://www.cfpltd.co.uk/pipecanisters.html

Fireplug canisters are fixed around the pipe and the toggle clip engaged. The canister is then slipped along the pipe to the wall or ceiling. The canister is then fixed to the wall or ceiling. The fixings used on the test were four number 50mm wood screws, screwed directly into the aerated block (Thermalite, Celcon, etc.). If fitting to concrete or brick a 65mm steel screw plugged and bedded in intumescent mastic is recommended. The opposite side of the wall/floor to the Fireplug FPC can then be back filled with sand and cement if required.

Working to a level line, firmly the starter trim to the Timber battens at 600mm centres for white (or 400mm for Coloured) cladding. Vertical battens are fixed and checked Against a plumb line at appropriate centres. The remaining Trims are fixed around the perimeter, corners, joints and openings.
Inspect both limb tips BEFORE drawing the bow to ensure that the string loops are securely fixed around the limb tips. To disassemble the bow, use the same procedure in reverse.

Ash and sycamore may split during felling, causing a slab of trunk to spring back towards the feller. A chain or strong rope should be fixed around the trunk about 1.2m (4') from the ground prior to felling.

Two divers travelled to Shetland last week where they discovered one salmon cage had an anti-predator net fixed around it, made of a nine-inch mesh of single-strand green nylon line - known as 'monofilament'.

Sorry lefties, better luck with your next ginned-up controversy.

4 Wow.

Give them all the rope they want, folks. Just stand back and record what happens next.

Few things as satisfying as seeing someone hang themselves in this manner.

Da_Wiz Sends

5 No reasonable person would accept the memos as genuine. Their authenticity has to be established before their contents can even be debated.

By re-typing the 'originals' - from an anonymous source - and then destroying them, the Grauniad reporter rendered them worthless. They might as well be rumors overheard at a bus station.

6 Let's make sure we start with the facts. The story is that the reporter made photocopies of the originals, and returned the originals, then had the photocopies retyped, then destroyed the photocopies.

The decision to have them retyped on an old typewriter, instead of a comoputer is odd, and I've heard no plausible explanation. However, we shouldn't repeat the flase claim that the originals were destroyed.