Saddam is either pushing up daisies or in a coma. His "speech" yesterday reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live sketch when NBC News records hundreds of possible stories with Tom Brokaw before he goes on a lengthy vacation, including such "possibilities" as former Pres. Gerald Ford being mauled by lions.
I think the reason it took so long for Saddam's tape to come out (the first guy Thursday was probably a look-alike) was because his henchmen were piecing together hours of pre-taped information that would seem relevant today. Even then they failed, since Saddam never mentions American POWs, and praises an entire regiment of Iraqi troops that surrendered.
Posted 03/25/03, 2:15 a.m.
Steve has some Musings on the beginning of the war and the loss of Memphis in the NCAA Tournament.
Posted 03/24/03, 5:05 a.m.
Leaving aside the Michael Moore bunk below, the rest of the Oscars was subdued and all of the winners worthy of the honor. And I'm very happy that Chicago won Best Picture. Still, I hate to see Roman Polanski win Best Director for The Pianist. Call me crazy, but rewarding guys who drug 13-year-old girls and rape them, then flee justice to Europe, aren't really worthy of recognition.
Posted 03/24/03, 5:05 a.m.
The History Channel (motto: World War II Is The Only Thing Worth Covering) held their 5th annual Harry Awards for excellence in historical filmmaking, airing this past weekend. The five finalists were
Gangs of New York, The Pianist, We Were Soldiers, Catch Me If You Can and Windtalkers.
Movies released in 2002 were rated based on historical accuracy, public and commercial criticism, realism, audience response and educational value. Much of this has to do with how much of a threshold you allow for how much liberty Hollywood has to play with facts.
All are worth recognition (my only quarrel with Windtalkers is being too formulaic), bringing up important moments in history. I certainly can't complain that the winner was the Polish Holocaust film The Pianist. Still, I would have rather seen We Were Soldiers win, if only because it portrayed Americans as good guys in the opening days of Vietnam when the objective was clear and hippies hadn't convinced the government to lose the war. It also would have ticked off the NYU film students in the audience, who were shaking their heads in frustration as the historians on the panel discussed how the Americans were rightly portrayed as heroic good guys in the movie.
Posted 03/24/03, 4:85 a.m.
Always hilarious columnist Dave Barry was one of the comedy writers for this year's Academy Awards, and has a roundup of some of the process involved in making Steve Martin as funny as possible for the Awards.
Posted 03/24/03, 4:40 a.m.
This war has so polarized people that, Rod Dreher of National Review Online notes, friendships are being lost in the debate. I can vouch for that, having left an online bulletin board that I called home for five years. Despite knowing several of the folks offline as well as online, the worldwide group (Americans from sea to sea, Canadians, Aussies, a Belgian, a sassy Scot, etc.) was always worth an hour of my day.
As war began, however, tensions ran high and I found arguments increasingly polarized. Despite my tolerating dozens of comments every day by my online "friends" (most of which consider themselves secular humanists with political views on the left side of the aisle) bragging about past drug abuse and sexual escapades while using very foul language, this conservative Christian was smeared over my pro-Bush, pro-war stance. It was fast and extraordinary how I was suddenly converted from the "cutesy-John Wayne-fan" to "crazy baby-killing warmonger" who "gets off" in my TV news job over death and destruction, simply for saying that in the control room we are happy to have compelling video and audio with a story. This was just the last straw, as I've wondered why I spent so much time in an environment that does nothing to brighten my day or enrich my world view.
I logged off the last time yesterday, deleted every link to the site and plan to never return. Even after the war, life could never be normal once "friends" treat you like that.
As I list as my signature on that board and my emails, a quote from John Wayne: "I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they
please."
Posted 03/24/03, 4:15 a.m.
James Lileks seethes about Iraqis abusing our POWs:
I’m not disheartened by the sight of what those motherless sons of bitches did to the captured troops - not in the sense of wishing we would curl up and whimper Mommy and scamper back home. My first reaction was to wish that we’d identify the location of a Special Republican Guard unit, replace the B in MOAB with P, and drop the Mother Of All Payback on them. This intemperate emotion conflicts with the advice of lumbering pseudoprole Michael Moore, seen earlier this week wearing a button that said “Shoot Movies, Not Iraqis.” Well, Mike, the Iraqis shot a movie about the shooting of Americans; what now?
Speaking of Moore, if you watched the Oscars tonight you saw that his lying piece of filth won Best Documentary. Naturally, he used his speech for a platform to attack Bush: "We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We…we live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons ... We are against this war, Mr. Bush…shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And anytime you’ve got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up."
What was unexpected, however, is that he was booed as much as he was cheered. Bravo to those in attendance who wanted to keep the event civil, as every other "pray for peace" message delivered by presenters and winners.
Posted 03/24/03, 1:25 a.m.
I wonder if the protestors will ever protest Iraq's mounting war crimes? Today we have two horrible examples, with the major story being their beating and executing of American prisoners of war, and airing the video on television, all of which are illegal under the Geneva Convention. Second, Iraqi troops are dressing as civilians and ambushing American soldiers, also a war crime.
Posted 03/23/03, 10:55 p.m.
Amazing story of a non-embedded journalist who learned his lesson when fired upon by Iraqis and saved by American troops.
Posted 03/23/03, 10:55 p.m.
God bless America and apple pie, because it's baseball season! Which means on Monday night the return of "Baseball Tonight" on ESPN! Yes, springtime is in the air.
Posted 03/23/03, 4:20 p.m.
The 'shock and awe' of the campaign has been that we haven't needed to use a full-scale bombardment as of yet. We're succeeding with as few attacks as possible, telling troops to hold back from major engagements while getting more and more Iraqi troops to surrender peacefully.
Posted 03/23/03, 5:15 a.m.
Herald-Sun.com is compiling many of the better pictures of the conflict.
Posted 03/23/03, 5:15 a.m.
Good piece from a former 'human shield' in today's Telegraph: "Of course I had read reports that Iraqis hated Saddam Hussein, but this was the real thing. Someone had explained it to me face to face. I told a few journalists who I knew. They said that this sort of thing often happened - spontaneous, emotional, and secretive outbursts imploring visitors to free them from Saddam's tyrannical Iraq."
Posted 03/23/03, 5:15 a.m.
Palestinians, once again on the wrong side of history. Thousands on Saturday took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, calling on Muslims to boycott American products and for Arab nations to break diplomatic ties with the United States and Britain. Many chanted old slogans popular during the 1991 Gulf War, urging Saddam's army to strike Tel Aviv.
Posted 03/23/03, 5:15 a.m.
Gotta love this Guardian columnist is trying to spin that the anti-war protestors, writers, San Fran defecaters, et al, affected the war. As Andrew Sullivan notes, he actually makes the amazing assumption that Washington hawks would actually have wanted to slaughter thousands needlessly, if unrestrained by the puppet-wielding folk in the streets.
Posted 03/23/03, 5:15 a.m.
Not to toot my company's horn (TOOT! TOOT!), but CNN has a great page dedicated to the war's current events.
Posted 03/22/03, 4:55 a.m.
Debating the lame name Operation Iraqi Freedom on National Review's Corner, a reader writes, "As you have probably guessed, this clunky name was not the Pentagon's first choice for the Iraqi war. It is my understanding that the DOD brass wanted to call it 'Operation Zionist Infidel Crusader,' but for some reason the State Department objected. Meanwhile, Tom Daschle wanted to call it 'Operation Failed Diplomacy,' but the administration was cool to that suggestion. Karl Rove, I am told, pushed hard for 'Operation Aren't You Glad Gore Isn't President,' but at the last minute, saner heads prevailed." I believe that in Pyongyang they are calling it "Operation Better Get that Uranium Processed PDQ"....
Posted 03/22/03, 4:55 a.m.
Some Iraqi soldiers apparently shot their officers so they could surrender in Southern Iraq. Of course, this has to be very disappointing to some San Fran protestors, who preferred that ours do so first:
Posted 03/22/03, 4:55 a.m.
Thus far there are few refugees in Jordan, but some include former "human shields," such as Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip:
"Shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head."
Posted 03/22/03, 4:55 a.m.
Wall Street was happy to get it on. The Dow had its best week since 1982 and has gone up eight straight days for the first time in six years. Also, oil prices dropped by 30 percent in a week.
Posted 03/22/03, 4:55 a.m.
Is White House nutso reporter Helen Thomas one of Saddam's imposters?
Posted 03/22/03, 4:45 a.m.
The anti-war protestors in San Francisco this week were even more despicable than first known. The San Fran Examiner reports that at the Civic Center, a group of demonstrators defecated, then left, leaving the mess to be cleaned up by others. After all the hullabaloo, apparently one peaceful protestor forgot to throw their Molotov cocktails, several of which were found in a bag. The protestors also stalled firefighters and police trying to respond to emergencies.
Posted 03/22/03, 4:45 a.m.
Hmm, apparently my fortune cookie tonight hasn't been reading my blog lately: "You are very expressive and positive in word, act and feeling."
Posted 03/21/03, 9:50 p.m.
Our troops are more than meets the eye! An Ohio National Guardsman on his way to the Middle East, legally changed his name to Optimus Prime, the Transformers leader. (Thanks to Sydney for the link)
Posted 03/21/03, 6:20 p.m.
Dad just emailed me this:
"Just heard that they are closing all the Wal-Marts and K-Marts in Baghdad. They are becoming Targets!"
Heh. What a warmongering chickenhawk. Don't we know that there are civilians in there!?
Posted 03/21/03, 6:20 p.m.
Anti-war protestors in San Francisco decided to tick off the choir by shutting down much of the most anti-war city in America. What I really want to mention is a new tactic; some protestors staged a "vomit in." I miss the good ol' days of nude protests.
As Andrew Sullivan notes, "these protests are about no-one but the protestors. It's their anti-Bush therapy. They're going to need much more of it in the near future."
Posted 03/21/03, 5:55 a.m.
Anyone else watching the tanks race through the Iraqi desert towards Baghdad, shaking your fist and yelling "Go! Go! Go!"?
Posted 03/21/03, 5:55 a.m.
As war became imminent, on Monday Tom Das-hole blamed Pres. Bush for having to use force to oust Saddam, and for anything wrong that could happen: “I'm going to the White House this afternoon and I have a pretty good understanding, a pretty good idea what I'm going to hear. And I'm saddened, saddened that this President failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war, saddened that we have to give up one life because this President couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country. But we will work, and we will do all that we can to get through this crisis like we've gotten through so many.”
Thankfully, at the end on Monday's Moneyline, CNN's Lou Dobbs scolded Daschle for his hypocrisy in demanding unity last fall but now denouncing the Bush policy he endorsed: “Senator Daschle has every reason to be saddened, but by his own words and deeds, not those of the President.”
It turns out that Daschle blames the president even more than Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who expressed regrets of diplomatic failure by noting the source, a result "of many mistakes, beginning with the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in 1990, which opened the door to the foreign presence, and the absence of any genuine Iraqi effort to deal with the crisis of confidence which ensured."
Posted 03/21/03, 5:55 a.m.
I'm home in Atlanta after a late-night drive from Memphis, the best time to drive long distances. I was able to listen to the war coverage throughout, via CNN and Fox News, and couldn't wait to turn on the TV and see the pictures of the soldiers racing north to Baghdad unimpeded.
However, while listening to news/talk 101.5 in Alabama, ABC News would give updates at the top and bottom of the hour. Every time, it was to report a poll in which 65% of Americans give Bush a favorable rating, and 62% support war at this time. You know it's coming: There is a "but," as they decided then to give their spin. The ABC guy solemnly tells us that support for the start of the war in '91 was 15% higher, as if that matters today. Then again, CNN's Gallup Poll says 76% of Americans support the war, so by that ABC standard, just as many are behind the action today as in '91, so nah-nah-boo-boo on you, ABC.
Not that ABC doesn't have other problems to worry about. The TV guys are dropping the ball in a major way. ABC was several minutes behind the other networks on Wednesday night in reporting the attacks, and then forgot to tell local affiliates that they'd break off national news at 11 p.m. EST, leaving many stations with a black screen, scrambling for content, some even turning to CNN. Real crafty guys running that place, ABC, eh?
Posted 03/21/03, 4:58 a.m.
I've frequently pondered why other countries are so quick to burn the U.S. flag, but Americans never get riled up enough to do the same. Well, enough is apparently enough for students in Connecticut, several of whom at Newtown High School burned a replica French flag on school grounds, then were suspended for creating a "safety hazard." A truly worthy suspension, in my humble opinion.
Posted 03/20/03, 4:14 p.m.
I'd love to have tons of updates on the war and the NCAA tournament, but the remote has been in the hands of my sister, Stephanie. We took a break from hostilities to watch last night's "Angel," then HGTV, Travel and Animal Planet, then a background on the making of Chicago.
I will watch the Memphis-Arizona State game at Steve and Jenny's home tonight, then drive back to Atlanta in the wee hours of the morning. Then back to the grind, and some good work by Saturday on a story of historical importance.
There has been a most dire result to the war: war has ousted sex and Britney. ... War toppled sex as the most popular search term among U.K. Web users on Thursday. "War was our top search term today, taking over from perennial favorites -- sex, Britney and travel," said Nadia Schofield, a spokeswoman for Freeserve, the U.K.'s largest Internet service provider.
Posted 03/20/03, 4:09 p.m.
Personally, I've come full circle. Watching the Gulf War as a sophomore in high school in `91, I realized I wanted to work in the TV business, and specifically at CNN. Twelve years later, I'm a Technical Director at CNN Headline News and Bush `43 is ready to finish what his father started.
Posted 03/20/03, 1:45 a.m.
As Ecclesiastes says, there is a time for war and a time for peace. There's also time to pull out the Top Gun soundtrack and rock with patriotic fever for our troops to win quickly.
Blah, blah, yeah, I'm too gung-ho. Well, foo on that. It's very easy to be "anti-war." Everyone is, hopefully. But it takes common sense to know when war is necessary. If we had backed down, how would the current protestors have felt when Saddam was blackmailing us with a nuclear weapon? Would they have said we should have taken him out, or that we're just getting our comeuppance?
If it’s true that last night’s strikes were against Iraqi leadership, I’m ecstatic. Cut off the head, and the snake dies. Iraqi troops will surrender much faster if they have no word from above.
Posted 03/20/03, 1:45 a.m.
Looks like the war has begun. About a half-hour ago, we heard that air sirens began, then Ari Fleischer came to the White House podium and said Bush would speak at 9:15 p.m. CST. Let's pray for a quick finish, and hopefully our special forces already have taken all of Saddam's presidential palaces and grabbed his leaders, if not him.
Still here in Memphis on vacation, I'm with my family, including my cousin, Karla, who's husband is in Kuwait as part of the support for the first wave of troops. So we're certainly on pins and needles and flipping between every network covering the attack.
At this time, I'd like to remember that in today's news, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-KKK), said, "Today I weep for my country. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. ... Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned." Also, France, Germany and Russia said our action to liberate Iraq is illegal. Remember who your friends are.
UPDATE: Too many Democrats are despicable, and willing to give up our freedoms in order to placate Europe and the "world street." Today, among them is Rep. Pete Stark of Calif., who said that President Bush would be responsible for "an act of terror" by launching a massive bombing campaign to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
"I'm glum. I've been glum all day," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma. "I'm so saddened and disappointed that we have failed with diplomacy and in so doing are risking the lives of American troops and Iraqi citizens." Well, golly, Lynn, sorry that are inability to force France to withdraw their guarantee of vetoing any resolution makes you glum. Maybe by tomorrow you'll just be gloomy. Then the next, gooey with anticipation that France could join us once it's clear they're on the wrong side of history.
Posted 03/19/03, 8:55 p.m.
Time to narrow “American Idol” to the top ten. My three bottom-feeders are Corey, Julia and Charles, and I think, and don’t disagree, that Julia’s time has come and gone. She survived early, I believe, because of the sympathy vote in “Idol” prelims when she was snubbed by happy-blonde Kimberly. But now they’ve made up, and Kimberly has looked and sung well, so Julia’s time is up.
Best moment: Simon tells country Carmen that she should step in for the Dixie Chicks and take the place of Natalie “I’m ashamed Bush is a Texan” Maines.
Posted 03/19/03, 1:58 a.m.
This week's best Vents from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
- Oh, to be so young again to think that you could sit and have coffee with Saddam and settle things.
- Those bragging of being protestors during the Vietnam War should admit they spat at and called returning wounded soldiers “baby killers.” One even spat on my uniformed, wheelchair-bound buddy.
- Who cares if the French don't support us on Iraq? We can just pretend they're on our side, like we did in World War II.
- A note to the Smart family: No good deed goes unpunished. It's not Smart to welcome a bum into your home.
- Hooters Air: The airline on which you pray for turbulence.
- Yo, anti-war folks: How can you claim Saddam's ties to terrorists are a Bush fabrication even as you insist that an attack on Iraq will cause increased terrorist activity here in the U.S.?
- I'll bet the Pentagon wishes they had the same daily intelligence reports Hollywood gets.
- The French are the geopolitical equivalent of the Chicago Cubs.
- The Dixie Chicks will from now on be known as the French Hens.
- I hate it when they say, "You do the math," and I don't feel like doing any.
Posted 03/18/03, 6:25 p.m.
How does the leftie media see us warmongering conservatives? Check this report from Howard Kurtz in yesterday’s Washington Post:
When a group called the Young Conservatives of Texas was preparing to protest a Bill Clinton appearance in the state, Steve McLinden, a Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter, used the paper's e-mail to send the group this message:
"Ah, the heartless, greedy, anti-intellectual little fascists are mobilizing again. (Let me guess. All you frat boys saved up your allowances and monies from your McDonald's jobs for those Beemers you'll be driving to the protest, and those new jackboots you'll be sportin' en route)."
Editor Jim Witt let McLinden go that day and apologized to the group. "Obviously, reporters have opinions," Witt says. "But we expect our reporters not to express those opinions unless they're columnists."
Posted 03/18/03, 6:25 p.m.
From the AP: "After watching President Bush's address, Reno said, ‘We will not solve the world's problems by might. I had hoped people would come up with an opportunity for him to save face,’ she said." In response, the Instapundit:
“JANET RENO SAYS that you don't deal with a crazed, weapon-accumulating, charismatic leader by sending in tanks. Sorry -- I'm suffering an irony overload right now.”
Posted 03/18/03, 6:21 p.m.
I have found a show that may overtake "American Idol" in reality-show entertainment: "Nashville Star" on USA. I spent a few hours watching the first hour-and-a-half this afternoon with Mom, then sisters Stacy and Stephanie (not country fans for the most part) enjoyed it as well for the second hour-and-a-half live tonight. I am a country fan, and love the Down Home Country Folk on the show and their families and friends. Middle America couldn't be any better represented, and the talent of 3/4 of the finalists is better than any of the "American Idol" finalists, and all have better stage presence.
In case you're wondering, Yes, I have quickly, yet rationally, decided to love and adore one of the ladies. I'm pulling for Natasha from Albuquerque.
Posted 03/15/03, 9:40 p.m.
Sometimes news hits you right in the gut. In the current political hullabaloo, with the Hollywood folks ga-ga over anti-Bush, the entertainers we could count on most were country singers. Well, except the Dixie Chicks.
During a time of war, in a foreign country (England), lead singer Natalie Maines told the crowd: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."
No! Not the Chicks, too! What the heck does Natalie think when she emotionally croons "Travlin' Soldier"? If she keeps talking like that, her Red America fans in the States will be a "long time gone," and the Chicks will play in front of "wide open spaces."
UPDATE: I think even the aforementioned "Nashville Stars" would have enough common sense not to go after a popular president from Texas during wartime, especially to country fans. The backlash has been tremendous.
Posted 03/12/03, 11:25 p.m.
Splendiferous news: Life spans in the U.S. have reached new highs! I’m going to celebrate with a double-bacon cheeseburger and super-large order of freedom fries.
Posted 03/15/03, 2:00 p.m.
George Will looks forward to the 2004 elections, when Democrats are asked if they supported the by-then ouster of Saddam without the U.N.’s support:
‘Do you believe that any use of U.S. military power lacks legitimacy unless approved by France, Russia and China?'’ The Republican candidate has already answered.”
Posted 03/15/03, 10:12 a.m.
It’s already clear enough that anti-war folks in the streets don’t really give a flip about the Iraqi people they’re supposedly trying to protect. As Jay Nordlinger of National Review put it: "Why don't people of this type care so much about people who are brutalized and killed under tyrannical regimes? When you die at the hands of your rulers, are you less dead than when you die in war?"
No, it doesn’t matter to them that under Saddam Hussein, according to the Human Rights Watch: “Two decades of oppression against Iraq's Kurds and Kurdish resistance culminated in 1988 with a genocidal campaign, and the use of chemical weapons, against Kurdish citizens, resulting in over 100,000 deaths. . . . Saddam Hussein and others . . . are responsible for a vast number of crimes that constitute genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The victims of such crimes include up to 290,000 persons who have been 'disappeared' since the late 1970s, many of whom are believed to have been killed.”
No, as Rev. Jesse Jackson put it, “It’s not about Saddam Hussein,” it’s about being against Bush.
Posted 03/15/03, 10:12 a.m.
Just in case you’re starting to get the idea that being pro-Bush isn’t hip nowadays, stop watching the news, because even they’re not reporting their own polls. For instance, CBS didn’t say so, but their latest New York Times/CBS News Poll found that 58 percent of Americans said the United Nations was doing a poor job in managing the Iraqi crisis, a jump of 10 points from a month ago. And 55 percent of respondents in the latest poll would support an American invasion of Iraq, even if it was in defiance of a vote of the Security Council.
Over at ABC News, "61 percent believe support from the UN Security Council is not necessary to attack," and 71 percent feel UN authorization is not necessary "if allies participate." Hellooo, Britain and Spain.
Posted 03/15/03, 10:05 a.m.
Columnist Debra Saunders notes that opponents of war are forced to make odd arguments, too many of which are contradictory in nature. For instance, FBI agent/whistle blower Coleen Rowley sent a seven-page letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller -- via the front page of The New York Times -- Rowley parroted the antiwar corner's oft-made assertion that a U.S. attack on Iraq "will, in all likelihood, bring an exponential increase in the terrorist threat to the U.S., both at home and abroad."
In other words, “There is no link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, but if the United States attacks Iraq, Al Qaeda likely will attack Americans.” Mm, hmm, just like after Afghanistan? Oh, wait…
Posted 03/15/03, 9:35 a.m.
Our Security Council fate is in the hands of the "Coalition of Extorters," countries like Guinea, whose president may have had his vote influenced by his witch doctor.
Posted 03/15/03, 9:22 a.m.
A fundamental difference between the political left and right, part 21,000: Upon hearing the news that the U.S. test-dropped the MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Bomb), or the "mother of all bombs," liberals gasped and pulled out their signs saying "Drop Bush, Not Bombs." Conservatives cheered and hoped we use many of these in Iraq to shorten the war and lessen casualties.
Posted 03/14/03, 1:00 a.m.
Oh dear, oh my, oh goodness. The anti-war folks keep yelling into their grande coffee cups that the pro-Bush forces don’t take them seriously. Well, how about something straight from inspector Hans Blix’s mouth into MTV’s ears:
On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way. I regret it. To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war. We will have regional conflicts and use of force, but world conflicts I do not believe will happen any longer. But the environment, that is a creeping danger. I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.
Yes, you read that right. Blix thinks that the world should be much more interested in disputed environmental theories than a madman in control of weapons of mass destruction. Chalk up another dumbass for the Euroweenies.
UPDATE: Hmmm, maybe there is something to look for in his search for the Kyoto Cabal: “Coniferous forests around the world may be emitting more smog-causing nitrogen oxides than traffic and industry combined, suggests a report in the prestigious journal Nature.” If this is true, then Blix needs to immediately send his checkers to forests around the world. I can see the protest signs now: Tree Inspections Now! Bush is a Terrorist! (Okay, some things never change)
Posted 03/14/03, 1:00 a.m.
The most prominent Sunni Muslim seminary, sponsored by the Egyptian government, has called for holy war against the United States and its allies.
Strange. I don’t hear anyone on the Left calling this an outrage. But can you imagine if, say, a Baptist seminary such as Southern in Louisville, Ky., issued a statement announcing support for the annihilation of all muslims?
Posted 03/14/03, 1:00 a.m.
