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] Bush Bravely Leads 3rd Infantry Into Battle

] U.S. Forms Own U.N.

] Local Mom Whips Up Some Of Her Famous War Pie

] Dead Iraqi Would Have Loved Democracy

] New Bomb Capable Of Creating 1,500 New Terrorists
] In Single Blast

] U.S. Draws Up Plan For Post-War Transitional
] Dictatorship In Iraq

] Sheryl Crow Unsuccessful; War On Iraq Begins

] Vital Info On Iraqi Chemical Weapons Provided
] By U.S. Company That Made Them

] U.S. Continues Proud Tradition Of Diversity
] On Front Lines

The Onion takes on Iraq the way only The Onion can..

The Onion | Operation Piss off the Planet

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Who Armed Iraq? Charles R. Smith
Monday, March 17, 2003
Myth vs. Fact

Name one weapon in the Iraqi arsenal that was made in the United States.

I have offered that challenge to dozens of so-called anti-war activists who claim that the U.S. armed Iraq. According to these protesters for "peace," George Bush Sr. and Ronald Reagan supplied Iraq with tons of weapons.

None have been able to name the specific weapon – missile, bomb, fighter, tank or shell – that is U.S.-made or has U.S. equipment installed in it. None have been able to name any specific weapon system.

...

Time to separate the myth from the reality. The propaganda spun by the far left is false. The facts show that Iraq is armed with a wide range of weapons – none of which came from the U.S.

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btw, particularly ironic is this :

Since when is a truck a weapon? Are the Iraqis going to drive backwards, fuel tank first, into the U.S. Army?

Apparently the Iraqi irregulars have used a gasoline truck to blow up a US M1A1 tank..

=darwin

Who Armed Iraq?

] A top adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
] and one of the intellectual architects of the war with
] Iraq resigned his post Thursday amid an ethics
] controversy.
]
] Richard Perle resigned his chairmanship of the Defense
] Policy Board but is remaining a member of the board,
] according to the Pentagon.

] Perle, one of George W. Bush's foreign policy advisers
] during the 2000 presidential campaign, was hired last
] week by the bankrupt Global Crossing telecommunications
] company to help it restructure a deal to sell a majority
] holding in the company to Hutchison Telecommunications
] and government-run Singapore Technologies Telemedia. The
] United States government -- particularly the Defense
] Department and the FBI -- has national security concerns
] about the deal, according to The New York Times. It would
] put Global Crossing's fiber optics network -- which the
] military uses -- under Chinese ownership.

Richard Perle resigns from DPB chair

] It was a long day for protesters and police alike.
] Officers in riot gear hustled to keep up with roving
] bands of demonstrators. Roughly 1,500 of the Police
] Department's 2,300 officers were on street duty,
] officials said, costing the city $500,000 in police
] overtime.
]
] The worst came during the evening commute.
]
] Hundreds of demonstrators repeatedly tried to storm the
] Bay Bridge, paralyzing traffic for blocks around. A
] phalanx of California Highway Patrol officers and city
] police turned them back after shutting down two
] approaches to the span and unleashing pepper spray to
] disperse a crowd near Fremont and Harrison streets.

] "We had a beautiful and very successful action today,"
] Ilyse Hogue of Direct Action yelled into a megaphone to
] demonstrators gathered outside the Federal Building.
] "We were able to unplug the war machine for a day."

Able to unplug the war machine for a day? How? Sounds like you just tried to screwed up San Francisco.. From what I've read about the riots^Wprotests, they sound more like an excuse to go out and break shit and cause trouble for the cops then peaceful protest against the war..

Am I missing something? Am I a victim of the war propaganda? I don't think so.. I'm just really fustrated with the peace protesters. Peace protest requires peace.. Not violence, and that is what I keep hearing about.. Violence at peace protests.. Thats not what we need.. Thats not what gets a message across.

Maybe all the anger takes root in how powerless people feel to affect change.. Whatever it is, the violence and vandalism does not help the protest.. Rather, it hurts it.. Makes it easier to dismiss.

] Mayor Willie Brown said in no uncertain terms that,
] although he opposes the war, he had no patience for
] the demonstrators and he lamented the tremendous
] cost the demonstrators had inflicted on the city.
]
] "I must express my frustration at the tactics of
] some protesters, who have chosen to specifically try
] to disrupt this city, rather than gather peacefully
] to voice their desire for peace, at the expense of the
] day-to-day lives of ordinary San Franciscans -- and at
] great cost to the city," he said in a statement
] Thursday afternoon.

I can understand how he feels.

1,400 arrests in war protest in S.F. - Police OverTime $500,000

] HYDERABAD, India, 25 March 2003 %u2014 As protests
] against the US-led invasion continued across India
] yesterday, Maoist rebels in a southern province targeted
] global soft drink giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi, police said
] yesterday.
]
] %u201CThe exact cost of damage is still being assessed,
] but it appears the rebels targeted the soft drink giants
] and some other stores selling Indian-made foreign liquor
] to protest against the war,%u201D Anil Kumar Puneeth,
] superintendent of police, told AFP.
]
] Members of the banned People%u2019s War Group,
] India%u2019s oldest and most violent left-wing rebel
] group, destroyed hundreds of Coke bottles, blasted a
] Pepsi warehouse and attacked liquor stores in two
] districts of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh late
] Sunday.
]
] Around half a dozen armed rebels raided a warehouse
] stacked with Pepsi bottles and used explosives to raze it
] to the ground, police said.

ArabNews: Maoists Target Coke, Pepsi in Anti-War Demonstrations

] U.S. Marines searching Iraqi military headquarters in
] this southern city that was the site of intensive
] fighting came across a mural depicting a plane crashing
] into a building complex resembling New York's twin
] towers, a news agency photograph showed Wednesday.

This has been all over the news.. Now, if they attempt to date its creation somehow, and it was made before 9/11/2001, then its going to be something really damming.. Otherwize, its just a particularly offending peice of propaganda.. I don't think it proves a link between Saddam and 911, which seems to be why its being spun so hard.. The Bush Admin and the Media are doing anything they can to establish that Saddam/911 link. They have attached so much (too much) of the justification for this war to that largely unproven link..

Marines discover Iraqi 9/11 mural

] A Florida-based Web hosting company knocked a small news
] site offline after it posted controversial photos of
] captured American soldiers, stoking accusations that
] private firms are censoring free speech.

] "I'm going to a small provider in San Francisco, which
] is like going overseas," Marquadt said.

USATODAY.com - POW pictures spark Internet censorship debate

So there's this 14 year old, "The Boss", and all he wanted to to do was figure out "how he could make money, fast." The plan? "The Boss envisioned making as much as $100,000 by assigning various 'jobs' to his friends, then taking a 25 percent cut for himself. The Boss, according to one of the lists he compiled, envisioned his "family" making money in prostitution, weapons sales, money laundering, recruiting hit men - even candy sales." Well, atleast they new their market with the candy sales. So the story gets better. Another student "arrested on the misdemeanor charge was nicknamed 'The Hacker' because he was supposed to alter grades in the school's computer system." Now, I won't ruin the plot or climax for you but I'm thinking this should be a TV show or movie called Youngfellows.

Middle-school 'mafia boss' arrested on felony charges

] Tom, the evil CEO of Industrial Memetics, turned
] another year older today...and another year wiser.
] Yay for Tom!!!:)

I command the Nashville crew to ensure Tom is kept very drunk and happy tonight.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A pretty all encompassing roundup of war blog links.

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