----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > I don't know who Ken Adelman is. I looked him up on Google and what I read > doesn't ring any bells. Former Assistant Secretary to Rumsfeld and member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, "consummate Washington insider"; profiles available on Google. I thought his "cakewalk" comment was well-known there, he was also interviewed about it on BBC Newsnight, after the fall of Baghdad. I'm told he isn't in the news in the US these days and wasn't at the time he was interviewed here, either; but I'm a bit surprised you don't remember him. Here's one profile: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/982 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html