Morte Terrorist Du Jour

So they got Zarqawi. Back when he was a media superstar, it was all newspapers could do to keep from grinning maliciously at the fact that the number 2 terrorist in the entire world had thus far eluded capture or annihilation at the hands of our elite military. It’s amazing how quickly the media’s tone [...]

WMD Files

Douglas Hanson believes the missing WMD stockpile case is not yet closed.
To assert that the scientists bypassed the Baathist infrastructure, the Iraqi Intelligence Service, and Special Republican Guard commanders, all the while fooling Saddam is, to put it mildly, a real stretch. To this day, many still fear the consequences of cooperating with the [...]

Saddam Betrayed By Second Wife?

What’s with this story? First the claim that Saddam’s second (of four) wives was somehow responsible for Saddam’s capture, then the claim that she had plans to flee to France and then Moscow. It’s a strange bit of reporting, and I’m just not sure what to make of it. Here are some [...]

Connected?

No connection between Saddam and the “insurgent” fighting. Nope. None whatsoever. Oh, except for this tidbit:
Beginning then, the Chicago native’s brigade rousted some of Saddam’s relatives in Tikrit. Some had been financing the insurgency that was just heating up against the American occupation. Others had been active combatants in the guerrilla war.
Hmmm. [...]

Blix Report

Not that I’m a fan of Hans Blix, but I have to say this interview is very interesting, if for nothing else than its plain speaking about both sides of the Iraq war. On the one hand, he believes the “hyping” for the war was overdone and that the US and British governments used [...]

Hillary On Bush

I meant to post this the other day, but somehow lost track of it in the thick of things. I’m still trying to figure out the political angle here, but in the meantime, the facts are these: Hillary Clinton is (surprise, surprise) defending Bush’s stance on Iraq and WMD’s.

“The intelligence from Bush 1 to [...]

Trust This!

This article is suspicious of the David Kay report on WMD in Iraq. It is reported to be hundreds of thousands of pages long, and details the extensive behind the scenes work that Saddam was doing to produce, store, and conceal WMD and chemical weapons of warfare. The report is not due out [...]

Peace Movement a “Quagmire”

The LA Weekly is calling the peace movement a “quagmire”…delicious :-)
Maybe someone in the peace movement should figure out that not only Bush could stop this war. So could Saddam ? by resigning his unelected post and saving his people any further sacrifice. Yet I?ve yet to see one anti-war placard allude to Saddam?s responsibilities [...]