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Tuesday, March 25, 2003

MSNCB's live video site live video from Bagdad.
Things that make you go.... HA: "It's hard to believe that Harry met Sally back in 1989. Things were so different then: Bush was president, the economy was tanking, we were about to go to war with Iraq." - Billy Crystal
Article suggests Bush's style may not be as good as Blair's (from nytimes.com).
Serbia's prime minister assassinated in Belgrade, this is not a good thing; WWI started after something not all that different (from redding.com).

Saturday, March 22, 2003

Peace protestors brought Molotov Cocktails; wait a second, homemade bombs aren't peaceful!? (from ktvu.com).
A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip "had 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." (from upi.com via Blogs of War)
Some Iraqi soldiers frag, some surrender to some British Marines, "Every time you turned around, a new trickle of silhouettes emerged from the horizon walking slowly towards us.  One Marine joked: 'Oh no.  They're surrendering at us from all sides.'" (from The Times).