Dept. of Slim Shadies

In all the hulabaloo over the president's latest stumbling in Iraq, let us not forget who was nominated last week to become our new deputy secretary of state: bad ol' John D. Negroponte. Negroponte, our current director of national intelligence, and a man who never saw a death squad he didn't love, "would be expected to play a leading role in shaping policy in iraq, now under revision"...