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My two cents are: I don't know. Powell has issued a stern warning to Syria and Iran and I wouldn't be surprised if they're batting two and three in the line-up, once we strike out that pesky leadoff hitter, Saddam. Talk about rolling! Play ball!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 23:53:00 (EST)

My two cents are: "Brouhaha." God, dweeb, learn to spell. This is so tedious.
ha ha ha <firesign>
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 23:48:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Quick! Glint needs the upclose photos of the mangled!!
haole too!
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 23:46:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Duh. the kind of thing that only a moron like snippy would miss.
sayonara
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 23:45:07 (EST)

My two cents are: CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says the U.S.-led war on Iraq would produce "one hundred new bin Ladens," driving more Muslims to anti-Western militancy. "When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences," Mubarak told Egyptian soldiers in the city of Suez on Monday. "Instead of having one (Osama) bin Laden, we will have 100 bin Ladens," he said.
No shit?
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 23:16:55 (EST)

My two cents are: It doesn't matter if it is leapfrogging, island-hopping or who came up with it, it should not be used in Iraq. Our supply line goes right through Basra. We cannot have an enemy stronghold attacking our supply line. It has to be eliminated.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 23:09:31 (EST)

My two cents are: So it was that on a warm, hazy day in central Iraq, the fog of war descended on Bravo Company. Fifteen Iraqi civilians were packed inside the Toyota, it turned out, along with as many of their possessions as the jammed vehicle could hold. Ten of them, including five children who appeared to be under 5 years old, were killed on the spot when the high-explosive rounds slammed into their target, Johnson's company reported. Of the five others, one man was so severely injured that medics said he was not expected to live. "It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen, and I hope I never see it again," Sgt. Mario Manzano, 26, an Army medic with Bravo Company of the division's 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, said later in an interview. He said one of the wounded women sat in the vehicle holding the mangled bodies of two of her children. "She didn't want to get out of the car," he said.
"Huzzah! Huzzah! I've killed the Devil!" shrieks Punch in his final triumph.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 22:54:15 (EST)

My two cents are: If I were Glint I'd just give up. What's the point of going on?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 22:22:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, for Glint everything is just a game of Gotcha, on some primitive, mouth-breathing Nebr level. I hope that 8-laner out to Carroll County does get built. Ought to take about 5 years, maybe more. Then, when it's built, come the malls and the new subdivisions. The minute that freeway is completed, various "pro-growth" groups will start lobbying for additional lanes. You gotta figure the rube will jump on board for THAT. Anyway, the sad fact is, this freeway will not be completed, not in Glint's lifetime. And the fucker will be bitter about that, but he won't say anything because it will all boil down to a Republican lie and Glint's a team player. So, he'll stew about it while his the property values stay level or sink. A man trapped in a hellish commute as he turns 55, then 60, then 65. We're talking major fender-benders and untreated bi-polar disorder. Bigtime. One day he'll buy a dream condo in Lincoln, only to find the Lincoln of his imagination is false. The kids will move out to the Coast and beg him to follow. But he won't, not Glint. Cigar-Boy has his pride, dontcha know.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 22:21:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said it was premature to ask whether the administration miscalculated the Iraqis' desire to rise up against Saddam.
preemie vs full term?
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 21:33:41 (EST)

My two cents are: When do you think Glint is going to realize that the new Republican governor is not going to punch that freeway out to his front door and ring him with highway service zoning? It's always sad when a kid stops believing in the tooth fairy, but it has to come.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 21:22:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Does Glint really believe all the lies? I thought it was just his way of accepting that you have to break eggs to make an omelette. The touching thing is that the poor rube is willing to do it even when he's one of the eggs. Next stop: no marriage bonus.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 21:19:56 (EST)

My two cents are: The real import of Glimp's choo-choo story is this: the poor rube has spent so much time forcing himself to believe official Republican lies, he's starting to believe his own lies.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 21:18:33 (EST)

My two cents are: When the Iraqis find out what good guys Cheney and Rummy are, they'll come out throwing fruit and kisses. Or maybe not.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 21:03:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Cheney should have consulted some generals and some intelligence services instead. This thing is going down ugly.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 21:00:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Doesn't that short-change Rummy? And what about Cheney? Is history going to know what Cheney had to do with this? Will history tell us how many oil executives Cheney consulted while planning this?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:59:52 (EST)

My two cents are: I can attest to the fact that, in foreign climes, Operation Iraqi Freedom is known as the War of Bush. That is the way it will go down in World History. You're off the hook, Tommy.
traveler
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:53:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Hot Potatoe...? You're thinking we might be able to pass it all the way down to Dan Quayle? Diabolically clever, if true.
Tommy F.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:51:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Right, Gimp. The famous choo-choo train that takes tourists right up to the border of Afghanistan. Ho ho ho you can't fool us, sly Gloot, with your scamp revisionism. This is not a simple matter of impressing Pete with your knowledge of Orion's Belt. This is the bigs.
At least for a rube from Nebraska, it's the bigs.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:49:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Pass the war? What's this, a game of Hot Potatoe?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:19:17 (EST)

My two cents are: No. The image that settled the bruhaha was of a real, shiny choo-choo train.
Glint
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:18:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Yo, 20:03. The war has been downgraded to "Tommy Franks's War."
(it was all Tommy's idea....)
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:17:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Why do I get the feeling that Pete would disgust his own mother, if he had one?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:14:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Why do all these television guys say "concussion" when they mean "percussion?" Aren't any of them warfare buffs?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:13:35 (EST)

My two cents are: By "train", what I mean is "shank's mare."
Dr. Word
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:12:33 (EST)

My two cents are: "Train" is just my way of saying "ox-cart."
Joe Communication
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:11:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Shit, at the end of the war they were handing out Lt. Commanderships to freaking tugboat deckhands to try to get them to re-up.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:11:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Suffice it to say that when I say "train" I mean "mode of transportation that is probably a truck or a mule, but certainly requires no track."
Yepe�
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:09:37 (EST)

My two cents are: The Lt. Commander must sure be proud of Pete's hobby and college courses.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:09:28 (EST)

My two cents are: I think I can say with confidence that I'm the only person here who majored in Art History for a semester and who had a gray 1963 Volvo 122-S. So what if there are others whose fathers were Lt. Commanders in the Pacific in WWII?
SOT
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:07:47 (EST)

My two cents are: It will never become a quagmire, officially or unofficially! We will force those rug pilots to pump oil for us and like it! Nobody fucks with the World's Only Superpower!
SOT
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:04:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Has the Bush War become an official quagmire yet?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:03:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete? He's reviewing his old textbook from WWII Pacific Battles and Strategy 101. Well, he's probably at least looking at the pictures.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:03:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Where is that stupid guy, Pete? He's fun!
need doormat
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 20:00:53 (EST)

My two cents are: "What people do with their money is a rather more profound barometer of how people feel than any stupid poll, much less bald assertions by New York Times reporters."
Coulter on what's profound and what's not
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 19:59:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Stocks Drop on Worries About War, Economy Mon 4:51pm ET - Reuters Stocks fell for the fourth straight session on Monday, as fears about a prolonged war in Iraq and a report showing a decline in Midwest manufacturing renewed worries about the U.S. economy.
Hey, this must mean we've lost gladness!!!
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 19:58:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, that's a little incoherent, but I get so mad when I think of people not supporting our little trooper.
SOT
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 19:55:38 (EST)

My two cents are: I support our "troopers" who are warfare buffs and contribute, each in his own way, through such acts as studying the battles and strategy of the Pacific and keeping the dream alive by knowing more than you do about them, from the inside out if they happen to live by the Pacific. How else are we going to be hornswoggled by Admiral King's press machinery into believing that Douglas MacArthur was a fag who couldn't leap-frog a Sunday-school teacher?
Support Our Trooper
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 19:54:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Just because Geraldo under the influence of the "fog of war" was really nowhere near Kandahar in Afghanistan when he claimed to be standing on hallowed ground during intensive American bombing doesn't mean that Fox can't appreciate him. Maybe he can report more accurately while standing in the "sand of war" in Iraq.
wonder in aliceland
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 18:08:53 (EST)

My two cents are: I am still supporting our troops every possible way. I haven't watched "Children of Dune" on the Sci Fi Channel.
(01)
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 18:02:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Are you kidding. These guys despise jism. yechh!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:47:06 (EST)

My two cents are: I especially value O'Reilly who proved the NYT spin.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:45:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Beats his other "hobby."
Captain Kleenex
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:45:12 (EST)

My two cents are: I think it's pretty damn keen that a Wouldawent, like Pete, would try and please "dad" by making warfare his hobby instead of actually "joining the military."
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:44:24 (EST)

My two cents are: They report the news the way it ought to be reported.
Rah Rah
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:42:04 (EST)

My two cents are: At least Fox doesn't flood you with feel-goodism and other bruhahas!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:40:01 (EST)

My two cents are: I won't accept Rivers as a troglodyte until he shaves off that awful moustache.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:37:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Is FOX the one with all the Negro sit-coms?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:36:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann was just making a point. She was just explaining that the New York Times is evil. She uses humor like a box-cutter. It's all for laffs. The liebral scum have nothing to worry about. Lull yourself to sleep.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:35:12 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm not sure what to think about this Geraldo thing. I mean, gosh, this is the first time I've even referred to him as Geraldo. It was Jerry Rivers before that. But, since he joined FOX, I sort of like him now. I mean, we're supposed to like them if they're on FOX, right?
Perplexed Freeper
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:34:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Spruance? There was a King AND a Spruance? Now I'm REALLY confused.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:33:01 (EST)

My two cents are: As long as somebody is willing to use "bruhaha" in a post, count me in!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:32:18 (EST)

My two cents are: What kind of a name is King, anyway? Is that Italian? Bulgar? I'm surprised they let him into the country, much less Annapolis.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:30:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Therefore, I quit and I shant be back!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:30:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Scanning some of the posts and finding out that Peteperson took college courses on the War in the Pacific and Anthrax Ann said the war in Iraq had a thrilling beginning.
I'm so impressed
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:30:27 (EST)

My two cents are: I still haven't figured out the Peter Arnett bruhaha and nobody here seems capable of explaining it, Pete's lunatic rantings aside of course.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:29:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I remember leaning on Dad's shin, sitting on that big shoe, and listening to him reel off the names of hopped islands. There were thousands of them, from great big ones like Greenland to tiny ones no bigger than a soccer pitch, with two or three palm trees and maybe a family of land crabs. I always thirsted for more, though, since Dad just explained first-hand strategy, and irrelevancies like the fact that Halsey always started the starboard engines first, while Spruance would fire up those on the port side. So when I finally got to college I hungered for more, and took every course they had on WWII battles in the Pacific. College was very important to me, because it is where I learned about Plato and Halsey, and I'm not ashamed to say that I'm better than you.
Spruance? There was a King AND a Spruance?
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:28:30 (EST)

My two cents are: The "bruhaha" was image-confirmed? That says something about teamwork!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:26:19 (EST)

My two cents are: It wasn't me, Harl!
Faux Pete�
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:22:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Faux Harl! (002)
Harl (002)
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:20:19 (EST)

My two cents are: My third stepfather was an Wiper on the Good Ship Lollipop.
Harl
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:19:04 (EST)

My two cents are: My father was a captain in the horse marines, served on MacArthur's staff. Told me personally that Mac was allergic to black olives and had a pet turtle named Fred. Mac had a schwanstukka as big as a hippopotamus, and the girls at Mrs. O'Leary's in Subic always called him Tripod. Just went there to inspect the troops though-- he was a moral man and saved his love for his wife, Tulip. Then my dad was promoted to lieutenent major and was transferred to the Beagle Corps. This has always been my hobby.
War Buff
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:18:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Jimmy Page. My landlord.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:17:40 (EST)

My two cents are: I took a college course in New Math. Anyone want to go Base of Six with me? Ha! Didn't think so.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:17:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Mine was John Bonham.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:16:31 (EST)

My two cents are: My dad was John Paul Jones.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:15:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, right. I suppose your "dad" was a Lt. Commander in the Sea Scouts too. Yeah, right!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:14:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Halsey was one weird dude. Always had to have a bath or he couldn't get to sleep.
Uncle Albert
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:13:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Is it true that Halsey died of eczema?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:12:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Halsey is fictitious. Paul McCartney invented him for a song. Geesh.
No Rube
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:12:31 (EST)

My two cents are: MacArthur was the one who destroyed all the railroads on Saipan. Halsey's amphibious force commander will never take that away from him.
Captain History Hobby
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:11:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete heard the name Halsey somewhere, there's no doubt about it. Some sort of Admiral-type guy, not quite a lieutenant commander but almost as high. Must have come up with the island-frogging strategy, hey, since we know his name. Or was it his amphibious force commander who dreamed it up? I could go either way on it.
Pete Fan Club
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:09:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Imagine spending all that hobby time on the WWII Pacific campaigns and not knowing about Admiral King. Goes to show what a good team of press-agents and public ass-lickers can do for a military man.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:07:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Osama got away on the magical mystery train. There was even a confirming image, if I recall correctly.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:05:50 (EST)

My two cents are: You mean Pete was right all along, and we should have destroyed the Afghan railroad system? No wonder Osama got away and the Taliban still owns the countryside!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 17:03:54 (EST)

My two cents are: NEWS FLASH. Victory in Afghanistan is complete. No operating railroads remain at this time.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:38:48 (EST)

My two cents are: At least it is shiny.
like your beadie liebral head.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:33:42 (EST)

My two cents are: It goes to California. Plus, what are you going to call it, the Iowa Zephyr. Grow a brain. I fucked a girl from Indiana on that train once. Up in the dome car, somewhere in Colorado. That story can wait. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:33:37 (EST)

My two cents are: The California Zephyr spends most of its time outside of the sugar bear state. There are also a number of cities in towns in California where the Zephyr doesn't stop. Still, it's called the California Zephyr. Go figure!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:30:22 (EST)

My two cents are: While I was traveling a thought occurred to me. Glint doesn't just have a thing fro transexuals, he IS one. It's the beard. I knew I'd seen that beard before. It's the one all the female-male trannies grow when the hormones kick in.
#11
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:29:11 (EST)

My two cents are: It's cool when a couple of butt-buddies-by-necessity pick eachother up. Almost cute.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:27:30 (EST)

My two cents are: An image? Of a Pakistani train. The key to victory in Afghanistan. You betcha.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:26:16 (EST)

My two cents are: I say embrace the artificial posts that express what you would say anyway.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:24:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Train bruhahaa confirmed with image as I recall. (01)
Glint
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:23:29 (EST)

My two cents are: That may or may not be an artifcial post. How can anyone tell?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:23:10 (EST)

My two cents are: A college man? With a hobby of war? geesh.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:21:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Posting attributed 2 Glint at 15:41 - confirmed artificial.(01)
(01)
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:21:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, again, never said "railways" or "railroads." He did mention early on "trains" in connection with anything that moved that the US would hit strategically before landing forces in harm's way, a strategy that was in fact implemented in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, Pete proved there were trains in Afghanistan, thereby exposing once again that the only delusional liars were those their own names define as such: liberals. Next liberal idiot please.
Pete�
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:20:51 (EST)

My two cents are: In my view they are only descriptive terms to describe real life events that could be either leap-frogging, by analogy, or "island hopping." We all know what happened. It is simply a matter of describing it. And, I must say, I think I am probably the only person here who not only took college courses on the War in the Pacific (along with living in the Pacific and researching it as a hobby), but also had a Naval Lt. Commander father who was in those battles and relayed first hand knowledge of those battles and strategy. Next idiot please.
Pete�
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:17:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I love the pigfucker too!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:16:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete googles up four or five posts about "island hopping," which all say something different, tend to cancel one another out, and add to his confusion. So what does he do to tie it all together? Announces that it's not really "island hopping", the correct technical term is "leap-frogging."
Is there any question why I love this man?
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:10:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete is doing what he does best, or at least less bad-- making up lies to fit the jumble of rumor, folklore, belief, and dead moths that make up his knowledge base. Humor the poor, pathetic asshole. This is where tomorrow's laughs come from, so don't stifle it.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:02:42 (EST)

My two cents are: What in the world would "Halsey's amphibious force commander" (Halsey had a standing amphibious force?) have to do with an island-hopping strategy? Pete is going from stupid to stupidest! Where do you get this stuff, fat boy? Or do you just make it up by changing words in encyclopedia entries?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:59:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Pie holes?
Donato
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:59:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Tampa grandmother, you are an idiot.
go work on your pie holes
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:56:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, grandma, it's the same as when Glint kept challenging the normals to come up with the post where Pete advocating destroying the Afghan railways, and then when it was posted and the clear evidence showing that Pete had called for destroying the railways was available, the Dynamic Duo hopped around in glee saying, see, down is up and up is down and we are right. Call it stupidity, call it confusion, call it ignorance, call it troglodytism, Grandma. Or you can just call it Pete and Glint, if you want.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:56:16 (EST)

My two cents are: The so-called liberal "patriot" at 15:30 has now been officially debunked and exposed as either a liar or just plain stupid. Take your pick. Eeny meeny, minee moe, ...
Not a Liberal!
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:55:49 (EST)

My two cents are: It should be noted that Keeler's average is mitigated by the fact that foul balls were not considered strikes back then.
Casey Stengel
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:55:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Why do the troglodytes keep googling up paragraphs that tend to support Captain History Book's professional knowledge and do nothing to support the right-wing pundit who incorrectly attributed "island hopping" to MacArthur?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:52:45 (EST)

My two cents are: It is still a matter of debate whether leapfrogging was thought up by General MacArthur or by Admiral Wilkinson, Admiral [William F.] Halsey's amphibious force commander. Ted Wilkinson described this method of "hitting 'em where they ain't"--a baseball term invented by "Wee Willie" Keeler of the Baltimore Orioles, who hung up a batting average close to .400 in 1895. In terms of oceanic warfare it meant that instead of invading every island which held a Japanese garrison, we bypassed the strongest concentrations, such as Rabaul, Truk, and Wewak; landed amphibious forces on beaches comparatively free of the enemy; built an airfield; and, using our sea supremacy to seal off the bypassed enemy garrisons, left them to "wither on the vine." General [Hideki] Tojo, after the war was over, told General MacArthur that leapfrogging was one of the three principal factors that defeated Japan....
For the French Class: actually, it isn't really even island hopping, its leapfrogging: <Pete�>
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:52:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Can't we just cut to the chase and hit Mecca with tactical nukes and Big BLUs?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:51:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Roosevelt understood the value of keeping MacArthur offshore and playing in his private sandbox while the real war was fought.
Captain History Book
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:50:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete's been to war?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:47:37 (EST)

My two cents are: What the "experts" on here don't know is that MacArthur invented the technique of "island-hopping", and was all for it as long as it didn't involve hopping any islands.
Captain History Book
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:47:17 (EST)

My two cents are: you make MacArthur sound almost egomaniacal. Traitor!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:47:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Controversy swirled around two primary approaches, two main services, and two (among many) powerful political/military figures. The Army, led by General Douglas MacArthur, America's most prominent soldier, preferred to follow the axis along the coast of New Guinea and on into the Philippines to recapture this American commonwealth from its Japanese tormentors. MacArthur's plans, termed RENO, were opposed by Admiral Ernest King, described by naval historian Samuel Morison as the strategic genius of World War II, who held two key leadership positions as well a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the war (Morison). King preferred sending the naval forces and their Marines under Admiral Chester Nimitz across the Central Pacific. These forces would move from the Gilbert and Marshal Islands and ultimately through the Marianas, including Saipan, Tinian and Guam, which were highly regarded as potential naval and air bases. With the advent of the new long-range bomber, the B-29, the home islands of Japan could be directly attacked from the Northern Marianas. President Roosevelt resolved the conflict by essentially accepting both approaches and authorizing both strategic plans, including the idea of isolating many islands along the way, a notion known as island hopping. While this seemed to violate the unity of command, Roosevelt understood the value of keeping Nimitz and MacArthur on separate paths toward America's enemy.
more truth for liberals to digest
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:47:00 (EST)

My two cents are: MacArthur's strategy was to run away and wait for the Navy to make it safe enough for him to "return."
Captain History Book
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:45:17 (EST)

My two cents are: "He did the same thing you fuckerz do. Aided, comforted and assisted the enemy against America." By saying what anyone but a blithering idiot could figure out?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:44:49 (EST)

My two cents are: One thing you have to give MacArthur, he had a hell of a team of flacks. They're still working their spell on assorted troglodytes and rubes!
Captain History Book
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:44:21 (EST)

My two cents are: The combined American-Australian-New Zealand forces of General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander Southwest Pacific, were moving steadily northward using his "island hopping" strategy of taking only essential Japanese positions and blockading the rest. They had launched from Australia, invaded and captured New Britain and the Admiralty Islands, and had just received approval to attack Hollandia in northern New Guinea. This was all part of MacArthur's plan for the invasion of the Philippines (and his long-awaited return). At the same time, American forces of Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief, Pacific, had advanced rapidly westward. His own island hopping campaign took his forces from Pearl Harbor past Midway, Tarawa (Gilbert Islands), and Kwajalein (Marshall Islands). He had decided to bypass already-bombed Truk on the way to the Marianas (Guam, Saipan and Tinian).
History: a terrible thing for liebrals to waste
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:44:07 (EST)

My two cents are: That's some pretty feverish googling.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:43:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, the Iraqis would be partying like it's 1999 if only Saddam would let them. You know it. The truth hurts. Doink,
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:42:58 (EST)

My two cents are: MacArthur and Nimitz's naval high command were in agreement; they both agreed on a campaign strategy of "hopping over" or "leapfrogging" Japanese strongpoints which then could be isolated and left to "die on the vine." They disagreed, however, about where best to apply this strategy. While MacArthur was fixated on the South Pacific as a way back to the Philippines, the Navy favored the over 1,000 far - flung small islands of the Central Pacific as the more direct route to close in on Japan.
maybe some of the self-styled "experts" on here are just plain wrong. Again.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:42:45 (EST)

My two cents are: I think Glint is in the entertainment pit, watching the History Channel and waiting for something about island hopping and Admiral King to turn up.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:42:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Let me put it this way: Why are the liberals not supporting our most finite goals and other things associated with said goals?
Glint
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:41:11 (EST)

My two cents are: I think most Iraqis are saying why in the heck are these dudes even here trying to save this arid, inhospitable wasteland where they live in mud huts and milk goats and oats.
sheesh!!!
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:40:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Wrong, MacArthur first used island hopping in the SW Pacific adn Nimitz used it and developed it in his sphere of influence. In truth, it was likely designed and approved jointly. Nimitz was given responsibility for the Central Pacific and launched the invasion of Guadalcanal, his island hopping was broadly similar to MacArthur's in the South West Pacific. Nimitz and MacArthur combined to invade the Philippines, followed by Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
duh!!
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:39:09 (EST)

My two cents are: This thing is going to work out just fine, as long as the other Arab nations keep liking us. And they will, once they see the cheering Iraqis throwing fruit and kisses. You wait and see.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:38:43 (EST)

My two cents are: My question is where's Glint? In the men's room fashioning another vague, meaningless emotional cry for help?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:38:20 (EST)

My two cents are: What's with all these dead and bleeding children, anyway? I thought we were going to stick with smart bombs! This is bad outreach, and it's going to make Vickie Clarke have to show all sorts of 1988 gas attack tapes!
patriot
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:36:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Shhhh... the poor pathetic haole is working on some great anti-Kennedy material. Don't disturb him.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:34:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Hasn't killed any women. Hasn't killed any kids. Hasn't killed a soldier.
sure beats the Snip and Rummy
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:33:43 (EST)

My two cents are: King? There was a King involved in hte Pacific in WWII?
Pete�
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:31:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Calling him a ''visionary for civil rights in this nation'' the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts presented Sen. Edward M. Kennedy with first ever its civil rights award at its annual gala Saturday. Darnell L. Williams, president of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, said Kennedy was chosen for his four decades of work in civil rights. ''He has been our go-to guy for civil rights legislation in the Senate,'' he said. ''His track record and work effort really speak to freedom and economic advancement.''
Yeah, he's clean. Hasn't killed any women for years that we know about
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:31:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Who is the poor schlumpf who thinks that "island hopping" in WWII was MacArthur's strategy? No, troglodyte cretin, that was King's and Nimitz's strategy, and MacArthur hated it because it threatened to rob him of the irrelevant glory of "returning" to the Phillipines. Whoever wrote that is almost ignorant enough to be Pete, yet it is fairly literate for something so stupid, and definitely not the poor, pathetic haole.
patriot
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:30:36 (EST)

My two cents are: The troop I most want to see survive is the dumb kid who said he was in Iraq to avenge 9/11. When the reporter mentioned that it wasn't Saddam who did 9/11, the kid grinned and said, "That's over my head." It would be nice to see this kid learn more than shooting before he croaks.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:29:00 (EST)

My two cents are: doink

Take that Liberal scum!

- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:28:36 (EST)

My two cents are: The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Monday he has told the families of two Newsday journalists missing in Iraq that he will try to aid in tracking down their whereabouts. Jackson said he had no immediate plans to travel to the Middle East. "The families called me and asked for help," Jackson said in a telephone interview from the Chicago offices of his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. "And I said I would do my very best."
oh brother, maybe he can hire OJ
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:27:15 (EST)

My two cents are: If body count can make a comeback, so can I!
Soupy Sales
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:26:31 (EST)

My two cents are: 9-11. 3,000. RIP.
Body Counts
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:26:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Every old is new again. Body count. Yes!!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:25:33 (EST)

My two cents are: We apologize to the traveler for its inconvenience. Next. Will the car parked illegally in the Blue Zone please move. Next.
Tom Ridge <IdiotsR@liberals,com>
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:24:50 (EST)

My two cents are: What Ann Coulter doesn't know is that shards of the main palace in Baghdad dropped down and formed the shape of a perfect crescent. A tired Iraqi rescue worker came upon this miracle and stood blubbering at it for twenty minutes. But does Al-Jazeera ever show this, the liberal bastards?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:24:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Body count, man! Beautiful!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:23:32 (EST)

My two cents are: It's orange??? First I've heard. Christ!
Harl
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:22:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Eight days into the war, 27 Americans had died in combat, some from friendly fire. Yet, already, journalists were talking about America being caught in a quagmire like Vietnam. In Vietnam, we averaged 150 dead a week for seven years. In World War II, we lost 200 men every day for four years. In the Civil War, 400 Americans a day, Union and Confederate, died from the fall of Ft. Sumter to Appomattox. Every battle death is a tragedy and a loss. But America is winning this war. Gen. Tommy Franks' war plan is straight out of Clausewitz and MacArthur. In war, said Clausewitz, strike hard at the enemy's center of gravity, be it king, army or capital. In Iraq, all three are in Baghdad, and Franks sent his Marines and 7th Cav up the Baghdad road on day one. The MacArthur element is the "island-hopping" strategy the general conducted in the Pacific. Rather than send thousands of Marines to their deaths assaulting Japanese strongholds like Rabaul, MacArthur bypassed them, cut them off from re-supply by air and sea, and moved on. Franks bypassed Basra, Iraq's second city, to head straight for Baghdad. At this writing, U.S. forces are building up 50 miles south of the city for the final assault on the capital. But that does not mean the surrender of Baghdad is but hours away. Because of the halving of U.S. armed forces since Desert Storm, Tommy Franks has half the number of troops to drive Saddam out of Iraq as Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf did to drive him out of Kuwait. Yet, the great question left is not whether Baghdad falls, but when. For Tony Blair and George Bush must take the city. There is no substitute for victory. The coalition must drive Saddam out.
here's some truth to make the liebral pod people dracularians blanche
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:21:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Napoleon had two-thirds of westerm Russia. Rommel had two-thirds of North Africa. Custer had two-thirds of the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne hunting grounds. Israel had two-thirds of southern Lebanon. Hannibal had two-thirds of Rome.
Captain History Book
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:20:37 (EST)

My two cents are: We already have two thirds of the desert? Gosh, this war moves too fast for me to keep up with it!
Clyde Harrington
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:16:58 (EST)

My two cents are: The stock market is an indicator of gladness?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:14:55 (EST)

My two cents are: I have a bone to pick with Tom Ridge about the alerts. I was all the way through two domestic airports, customs, a bloody mary, immigration, baggage retrieval, and was out at the taxi-stand having a smoke before I learned we were orange! What good is an orange rating if the citizen is not told and does not appropriately adjust his or her vigilance? This is particularly worrisome since it occurred during air travel!!! Why do we expose our soft underbelly to the terrorists like this?
traveler
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:12:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, 14:49, Liberals are traitors, fascists, brown-nosers, and generalized evil.
duh!
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:07:11 (EST)

My two cents are:

The Enemy Within March 26, 2003 JUST FIVE DAYS into the war in Iraq and the New York Times was hopefully reporting that despite a thrilling beginning, American troops had gotten bogged down. This came as a surprise to regular readers of the Times who remembered that the Times thought we were bogged down the moment the war began. The day after the first bombs were dropped on Baghdad, the New York Times ran a front-page article describing the mood of the nation thus: "Some faced it with tears, others with contempt, none with gladness." Apparently some people greeted the war with gladness: The stock market had its best week in 20 years. What people do with their money is a rather more profound barometer of how people feel than any stupid poll, much less bald assertions by New York Times reporters. The Times subscribes to Arab-style proclamations in defiance of the facts. Like Saddam Hussein, the truth for them has no meaning. They say whatever honor commands them to say. Five days after the Baghdad Times was morosely reporting that no one viewed the war with gladness, things had gotten even worse. In a single editorial, the Times said our troops were "faced with battlefield death, human error and other tragedies." The task "looks increasingly formidable." There were "disturbing events," and American forces were engaged in a "fierce firefight � an early glimpse of urban warfare." There were "downsides," "disheartening events" and "grievous blows." We're losing this war! The Elite Republican Guard is assembling outside New York City! Head for the hills! The "fierce firefight" referred to in the editorial concerned a battle in Nasiriyah in which American troops took an entire city with nine casualties. That's what most people call a "triumphal ass-kicking." CNN's favorite general, Wesley Clark, has also been heard to opine that our troops are getting bogged down in Iraq. His competence to judge American generals is questionable since his command was limited to working for NATO. We prefer to hear from American generals. Clark's contribution to international relations consisted of mistakenly bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. In his zeal to prevent troop casualties, he ordered pilots to fly at such high altitudes that the pilots complained that they were being forced to incur unnecessary civilian casualties. On MSNBC, Forrest Sawyer compared Iraqi forces killing our troops to American revolutionaries and said the war was likely to turn into a "nightmare." Liberals are like the Republican Guard. They never quit. American forces have taken two-thirds of Iraq and are fast advancing on Baghdad. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers have surrendered or disbanded, thousands more have been captured, and thousands more have been killed. Meanwhile, American forces have suffered less than two dozen deaths. One can gauge the success of the war by the increasingly gloomy expression on Dan Rather's face. Indeed, Saddam's lieutenants are so demoralized that they have turned to lashing out at the Jews. Saddam's Vice Despot Tariq Aziz says the war is being fought only to "create something called greater Israel." Aziz seems to be positioning himself to run for Congress as a Democrat. Most auspiciously, the Arab League has appealed to the United Nations Security Council to stop the war. One can only hope the Security Council will agree to intervene. How would they stop us? Would France threaten us with war? Young men across America would have to enlist as a matter of honor. The Army could use as its recruiting slogan: "Are you afraid to fight the French?" Even liberals would enlist as a way to pick up glorious service with no risk of injury. Not surprisingly, the New York Times gave Saddam's recent speech more exultant coverage than they did Bush's State of the Union address. Since the first bomb hit Baghdad, everyone at the Times had been itching to use the word "quagmire." Somewhat surprisingly, Saddam beat even Maureen Dowd to the punch, thus allowing the Times to use "quagmire" with abandon the day after his speech. Not only that, but according to Saddam � and the Times � the invading forces are "in real trouble." The Times isn't afraid we'll do badly in Baghdad; it's afraid we'll do well. After the Arab television network al-Jazeera repeatedly ran footage of U.S. prisoners of war over the weekend, the New York Stock Exchange threw al-Jazeera reporters off the trading floor. They ought to remove the Times. - Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:05:12 (EST)

My two cents are: I see green alert level after green alert level! Just around the corner! Let's roll!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 15:03:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, sure, take the long view! No fair!
Gloop
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:58:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Success is when we drive out the bad guys and hold free elections and vote this ayatolla fella in, and the car-bombs and suicide attacks subside to one or two a night.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:55:32 (EST)

My two cents are: 145 on and internet IQ test, and this is the best he can come up with? Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:55:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Is the oil flowing yet? Why is Halliburton sitting with its thumb up its ass? Is it this treasonous bit about the competitive contracts and Bechtel?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:53:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Define success, you pathetic coward!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:50:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Call me what you will, I am for the flag and the God that it is under.
Clyde Harrington
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:50:40 (EST)

My two cents are: How can you say that about Glint? His hatred for Americans is a matter of public record.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:50:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint is rooting for Snippy, not the troops.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:49:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Liberals are traitors to fascism, blue-noseism, and generalized evil.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:49:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Patriotism is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:48:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Gosh, I guess a true liberal really has to feel pretty proud!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:48:11 (EST)

My two cents are: liberal Syllables: lib-er-al Parts of speech: adjective , noun Part of Speech adjective Pronunciation lI bE rEl lI brEl Definition 1. freely giving; generous. Synonyms magnanimous , generous (1) , bounteous (1) , munificent , unsparing (1) , bountiful (1) , openhanded Crossref. Syn. large , lavish , free , big , profuse , unselfish Similar Words warmhearted , free , benevolent , unselfish , openhearted Definition 2. respectful of individual differences; tolerant. Synonyms broad-minded , tolerant (1) Crossref. Syn. magnanimous , large , free , broad Similar Words open , open-minded , receptive , libertarian , latitudinarian Definition 3. (often cap.) favoring progressive political change. (Cf. conservative.) Synonyms progressive (3) Similar Words reformist , libertarian , left-wing {left wing} , radical Definition 4. relating to democratic forms of government rather than monarchies or aristocracies. Similar Words republican , democratic , progressive , libertarian Related Words universal , handsome , eleemosynary , altruistic , round , soft , indulgent , charitable , bighearted , ample , good , gracious , munificent , lenient Part of Speech noun Definition 1. one who favors progressive political philosophy, including government promotion of social change and the primacy of individual liberty. (Cf. conservative.) Synonyms reformist , progressive (1) , reformer (1) , libertarian (1) Similar Words left-winger {left wing} , freethinker , latitudinarian Definition 2. (often cap.) a member of a liberal political party or the Liberal Party. Similar Words libertarian , Progressive {progressive} Derived Forms liberally, adv. ; liberalness, n.
Captain Dikshun
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:47:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm rooting for the troops. The fewer new picnic graves for Glint, the better I'll feel.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:44:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush's war looks like a non-starter to me. Just a big fucking mess that can't do anything but make things worse. But then, I have liberal tendencies.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:44:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Critical thinking is the mother of all treason.
Winston Churchill
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:42:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Next thing you know, Gloob will be quoting OJ Simpson, Alan's honest brother.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:41:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Isn't there a difference between hoping they will fail and watching them fail?
patriot
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:41:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Why quote a liar?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:41:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Arnett ought to sue Simpson. Make him put his money where his foul mouth is. Fucking senile cretin.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:40:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Iraqsymps, we call them.
Alan K. Simpson
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:39:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Define success of our "efforts in Iraq." Sounds about as specific as "customary protections."
what a dumb rube
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:39:16 (EST)

My two cents are: How does this Homer Simpson guy know all this. Isn't he the one who slimed Anita Hill by lying that he had gotten the goods "over the transom." What good? Has he ever said?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:38:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Why do the Liberals want our war effort in Iraq to fail?
Glint
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:37:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Are they making Viet Nam comparisons? Chee!
Clyde Harrington
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:37:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Isn't Glint the one who enjoys dancing on the graves of the troops?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:36:22 (EST)

My two cents are: "[Peter] Arnett was an Iraqi sympathizer in the 1991 Gulf War and he's a sympathizer now." - Former U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:36:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint's just a drama queen from Lincoln.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:34:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Can we safely ignore Glint too? He seems like a clueless nimrod.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:32:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Who wants the troops to fail? I'll kill the bastard! Define success.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:31:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm starting to think it's best to ignore Pete on matters of war. On all matters actually.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:30:48 (EST)

My two cents are: What's with all the VietNam hand wringing in the press? Troops are pressing on the outer perimeter and 100 members of an Iraqi "terror squads" were dispatched to collect their virgins this morning. Why do the Liberals want our troops to fail?
Glint
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:29:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Sacramento, Calif.--When the leader of the California Assembly announced plans for lawmakers to conduct town hall meetings across the state, it was billed as a chance to hear what real people think about the budget crisis. But a Democratic Party internal memo suggests that the audiences will be deliberately stacked with like-minded witnesses will be handpicked to "convey the desired message."
more from the mind control specialist scumbag demonrats
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:28:12 (EST)

My two cents are: There are many rubs to this thing.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:27:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Geraldo just got caught up in the moment and thought he was in a pick-up touch football game and he drew the next play in the dirt. An understandable mistake given that this thing is being reported as a football game.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:26:49 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't buy Pete's tortured "explanation" of why Arnett got fired. Disinformation? To the Iraqis? On Iraqi TV?. No, no, methinks not. If that's what Arnett did, he ought to be given a medal...or at least Vickie Clarke's job. Any time Pete talks about his enemies I have to remind myself this is a guy who invites his own brother-in-law to the house to steal is bitchinest eyepiece. Pete knows a thing or two about comforting his enemies.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:24:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Tick tock tick tock.
sands of time
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:08:38 (EST)

My two cents are: I stand for the liberation of the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein and from Tommy Franks and, ultimately, from Halliburton.
patriot
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:07:46 (EST)

My two cents are: No drawing in the sand?
Clyde Harrington
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:06:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Boy, I didn't think of that! Guess I was faked out by this Lieberman fellow, and that Gephardt, and all the others who supported the war! Well you know what they say, victory has a thousand fathers, but quagmire is the bastard son of a pussed-over sqaw.
G.L.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:05:31 (EST)

My two cents are: The liebral (but pro-America) egomaniac Geraldo totally crossed the line last night when he drew his own units movements in the sand. Once an idiot, always an idiot. It is the sickness that is known as liberal.
Pete�
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 14:05:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Democrats missed their chance to stand with the president and for the liberation of the Iraqi people. Instead, they set themselves up to say "see, I told you so!" if things go badly. They're expressing hatred and talking in Vietnam-era slogans at a time when public opinion polls show Bush with 60% to 70% approval on his job, and even higher on the way he's dealing with the war begun against us on 9/11 and now carried into Iraq. Why? Well, have you ever been possessed or obsessed with such emotion of hate for somebody or something or some situation that you lost the ability to be rational? That's happened to the Democrats because of the 1994, 2000 and 2002 elections. They are blinded with rage. They think - 100% wrongly - that they "didn't get their message out" in 2002. The truth is that they did get their message out, and people rejected it.
scum being swept under the sill by the real America
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 13:45:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Where did Rove get this weird wild hair about Iraq, anyway? When he was running the boy for President he seemed to not know and not care.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 13:22:27 (EST)

My two cents are: National Geographic fired Arnett? Why?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 13:20:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Way to go, Mr. President!
Clyde Harrington
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 13:04:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush�s popularity numbers in November 2001 � 88 percent, the highest approval rating of any U.S. president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose rating reached 84 percent after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
never once testing Cliton's lows
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 12:53:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Who's Peter Arnett? Another traitor?
Clyde Harrington
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 12:41:20 (EST)

My two cents are: If lying were illegal, everyone except Susan MacDougal would be in jail.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 12:39:55 (EST)

My two cents are: He did the same thing you fuckerz do. Aided, comforted and assisted the enemy against America. It's called disinformation, aka liberal spin. In any event it is not the truth. A hallmark meter to tell when a liberal is smelling up the place. Lots more work to do to rid the country of that kind of sickness. Never Forget.
Pete�
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 12:39:17 (EST)

My two cents are: At least someone is taking the lying liberals to task. Finally. Good work firing these fuckerz.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 12:37:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Peter Arnett was fired for not legally lying.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 12:32:53 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't get it. Why did Peter Arnett get fired by Iraqi TV...er, NBC? Did he cross some spin line or something? Geraldo getting tossed I can understand. After all, he was "embedded." But what exactly did Arnett do that was so wrong?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 12:17:02 (EST)

My two cents are: That's Tory Clarke and she is one hot babe! I believe she is unmarried.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 11:50:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Vickie Clarke? Isn't she the gal with the great fashion sense?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 10:07:54 (EST)

My two cents are: It's Ceasar Chavez Day! State employees and elected officials get the day off. Farmworkers would get it off, too, but who would pick the figs?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:59:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Yo, Glimp, good news! We're closing in on Bagdad from every point of the compass. Going to be some ass-kicking now!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:57:01 (EST)

My two cents are: That big-eared general who shares the podium with Victoria Clarke, I've got to wonder if he still believes there is a God, and that the God is just.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:55:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Let each one sell his home. Then we can roll in our Ilyushin 76 transport aircraft. (01)
Glint
Southern Safari - Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:49:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Victoria Clarke was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs on April 5, 2001. She was confirmed by the Senate on May 17, 2001, and sworn in at a ceremony in the Pentagon on May 22, 2001. In this position, she is responsible for all matters relating to Department of Defense public information, internal information, community relations, information training, and audiovisual matters. Ms. Clarke comes to her position with extensive public policy experience in both government and the private sector. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Clarke was the general manager of the Washington, D.C. office of Hill and Knowlton, a global public relations and marketing firm. Previously, she was President of Bozell Eskew Advertising, a leading issue advocacy and corporate communications company. From 1993 to 1998, Clarke was Vice President for Public Affairs and Strategic Counsel for the National Cable Television Association. In 1992, Clarke served as Press Secretary for the re-election campaign of President George Bush. From 1989 to 1992, she was Assistant U.S. Trade Representative under Ambassador Carla Hills for Public Affairs and Private Sector Liaison. Previously, she served as press secretary to Congressman and then Senator John McCain. In 1982, Ms. Clarke was a press assistant to then Vice President George Bush. From 1979 to 1982, Ms. Clarke worked as an editorial assistant, photographer, and graphics editor for the Washington Star daily newspaper. Ms. Clarke holds a B.A. degree from George Washington University where she graduated in 1982.
Encyclopedia of Military Expertise
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:36:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Brussels, March 30, IRNA -- Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt Sunday toughened his position against the war in Iraq. Speaking at a meeting of his liberal VKD party in the city of Antwerp, Verhofstadt denounced the US as "very dangerous." "America, a power deeply injured, and has become very dangerous, and it thinks to take over the whole Arab world," Belgian RTL TV quoted him saying.
The nation that invented freedom fries pops off.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:25:08 (EST)

My two cents are: This is, after all, Tommy Franks' war.
Rumsfeld
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:19:30 (EST)

My two cents are: So what if the Arabs are praying for Hussein? Don't you think that when it comes down to it God can kick the shit out of Allah?
Except if He's only the vibration at the edge of the universe, of course.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:07:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Supply line? What's a supply line?
Rumsfeld
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:05:26 (EST)

My two cents are: We've got to balance off all these ragheads praying for Saddam Hussein. Grow a brain.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:04:54 (EST)

My two cents are: So what's the big deal? I often eat only one meal a day.
Alec Baldwin
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 09:03:38 (EST)

My two cents are: US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush They may be the ones facing danger on the battlefield, but US soldiers in Iraq are being asked to pray for President George W Bush. Thousands of marines have been given a pamphlet called "A Christian's Duty," a mini prayer book which includes a tear-out section to be mailed to the White House pledging the soldier who sends it in has been praying for Bush. "I have committed to pray for you, your family, your staff and our troops during this time of uncertainty and tumult. May God's peace be your guide," says the pledge, according to a journalist embedded with coalition forces. The pamphlet, produced by a group called In Touch Ministries, offers a daily prayer to be made for the US president, a born-again Christian who likes to invoke his God in speeches. Sunday's is "Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding". Monday's reads "Pray that the President and his advisers will be strong and courageous to do what is right regardless of critics".
pray that Snippy will grow a brain <oh and a heart would be nice, too>
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 07:58:37 (EST)

My two cents are: 3:49 EST Several times today I have seen on MSNBC, CNN and BBC soldiers interviewed who say they are only getting one MRE per day.
trillions for defense, but the bushist fascist war machine can't even feed the noble troops
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 07:53:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Appellate Court Rules Media Can Legally Lie. By Mike Gaddy Published 02. 28. 03 at 19:31 Sierra Time On February 14, a Florida Appeals court ruled there is absolutely nothing illegal about lying, concealing or distorting information by a major press organization. The court reversed the $425,000 jury verdict in favor of journalist Jane Akre who charged she was pressured by Fox Television management and lawyers to air what she knew and documented to be false information. The ruling basically declares it is technically not against any law, rule, or regulation to deliberately lie or distort the news on a television broadcast. On August 18, 2000, a six-person jury was unanimous in its conclusion that Akre was indeed fired for threatening to report the station's pressure to broadcast what jurors decided was "a false, distorted, or slanted" story about the widespread use of growth hormone in dairy cows. The court did not dispute the heart of Akre's claim, that Fox pressured her to broadcast a false story to protect the broadcaster from having to defend the truth in court, as well as suffer the ire of irate advertisers. Fox argued from the first, and failed on three separate occasions, in front of three different judges, to have the case tossed out on the grounds there is no hard, fast, and written rule against deliberate distortion of the news. The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdock, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the
triumph of bushist fascism
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 07:51:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Casualties climb into the hundreds? Could there be any doubt? That's what war is about, casualties, dead guys, hurt people. There is no way there won't be hundreds of casualties. There will continue to be hundreds of casualties even if the "coalition" takes over Baghdad and kills Saddam. Shit, there are hundreds of casualties in Jerusalem in a year.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 02:00:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Well Rummy and Georgie Boy, this is a nice mess you've gotten us into.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 01:14:34 (EST)

My two cents are: The last time there was this level of civilian micromanagement was 40 years ago when Robert McNamara and his Kennedy-era whizz kids were not content to lay down general policy. They decided they knew better than the generals what forces would be needed to take on the Vietcong. More than any other single politician, arguably including Lyndon Johnson, McNamara took the blame for the Vietnam disaster. Donald Rumsfeld has become the Iraq conflict's McNamara. His second-guessing of the deployment orders in the months before the fighting started is being blamed by retired and serving officers alike for the thinly protected 300-mile supply lines on which US troops are now depending. Their message is clear. Whatever happens now, this has become "Rumsfeld's war". If Saddam Hussein's regime suddenly collapses, his superstar status from the Afghan war, when he proved the doubters wrong, will only be enhanced. If it slides into a gruelling slog, as coalition casualties climb into the hundreds, there is no doubt he will take the blame.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 01:03:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Richard Perle, recently resigned chairman of the Defense Policy Board, in a PBS interview July 11, 2002: �Saddam is much weaker than we think he is. He�s weaker militarily. We know he�s got about a third of what he had in 1991.... �But it�s a house of cards. He rules by fear because he knows there is no underlying support. Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse at the first whiff of gunpowder. �
first whiff collapse
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 00:54:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Vice President Dick Cheney, on NBC�s �Meet the Press� March 16: �The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but that they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that... �My guess is even significant elements of the Republican Guard are likely as well to want to avoid conflict with the U.S. forces and are likely to step aside.�
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 00:53:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Ken Adelman, former U.N. ambassador, in an Op-Ed for the Washington Post, Feb. 13, 2002: �I believe demolishing Hussein�s military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was a cakewalk last time; (2) they�ve become much weaker; (3) we�ve become much stronger; and (4) now we�re playing for keeps.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 00:52:00 (EST)

My two cents are: The incoherence of the battle plan � which some retired generals say is three infantry divisions short � has made the guts and stamina and ingenuity of American forces even more remarkable. Rummy was beginning to erase his fingerprints. "The war plan," he said, "is Tom Franks's war plan." Tommy, we hardly knew ye. Paul Wolfowitz, Rummy's deputy, conceded that the war planners may have underestimated the hardiness of the heartless Iraqi fighters. This admission is galling. You can't pound the drums for war by saying Saddam is Hitler and then act surprised when he proves ruthless on the battlefield. In their wild dreamscape, the hawks envision Iraq as the rolling start of a broader campaign to bring other rogue states, like Iran and North Korea, to heel. But in pursuit of what they call a "moral" foreign policy, they stretched and obscured the truth. First, they hyped C.I.A. intelligence to fit their contention that Saddam and Al Qaeda were linked. Then they sent Colin Powell out with hyped evidence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Then, when they were drawing up the battle plan, they soft-pedaled C.I.A. and Pentagon intelligence warnings that U.S. troops would face significant resistance from Saddam's guerrilla fighters. In cranking up their war plan with expurgated intelligence, the hawks left the ground troops exposed and insufficiently briefed on the fedayeen. Ideology should not shape facts when lives are at stake. Asked about General Wallace's remarks, Donald Rumsfeld shrugged them off, noting that anyone who read Amnesty International reports should have known the Iraqis were barbarians. Rummy was too busy shaking his fist at Syria and Iran to worry about the shortage of troops in Iraq. As one administration official marveled: "Hasn't the guy bitten off enough this week?"
more socialist lies
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 00:11:12 (EST)

My two cents are: That's bullshit about Rummy worrying. This is the guy who helped Saddam gas his own people.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 31, 2003 at 00:00:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Bummer, man.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 23:59:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Blood Remains On the Hands Jimmy Breslin March 30, 2003 The least blood, a small squirt when removing a needle, two drops, that's all, no more than two drops, and suddenly it is everywhere. It remains after all. Wipe and it returns. Look about and it is in two and three places. Wipe those places and the blood does not go away. Two drops appear as a needle comes out and then it is endless. Blood from the body of a baby bombed to death in Baghdad, blood by the pint, running onto the street as fast as a swift river, has magic in its pure infant cells. Of course you cannot scrub the street clean because the blood from the baby already has covered the street and is in the air. Blood from a bombed baby in Baghdad goes over the wide choking sands and it crosses mountains and then great land masses and then suddenly, over a channel, it is in Westminster, in London, and people look at the sidewalk and wonder where these large blood spots came from, and the officer on duty in front of 10 Downing Street looks at the door handle and worries, how did this get here without me seeing this and having it cleaned? He has a servant rush to the door with cloth and polish and he wipes the blood and polishes the door handles and then walks off and the guard happens to glance at the door handle and the blood is back, smeared bright new red over the polished handle. The baby's blood is off to rush over the ocean, a strange red cloud poised to rain and it floats over the green of the Washington parks and goes down a sloping street to the State Department, where as a man opens a car door for Colin Powell he suddenly notices blood on the door handle and he quickly unfurls a handkerchief and wipes the handle and Powell gets in and the car goes off and the man who held the door is left in the driveway and he sees the red that is still on Powell's door handle. When he leaves the car, Powell does not notice the door handle as he touches it himself. The blood red cloud goes over the river to the Pentagon and it suddenly pours on the car that takes Rumsfeld to an appearance, and this time the blood is left on the door handles of both sides. A sergeant wipes. The blood is there when Rumsfeld gets home. The red cloud then comes down on the White House lawn and it does more than sprinkle, it splashes the helicopter of the president and he strolls out with his wife, his dog and his chesty walk and slight smirk and the wife at his side is smiling, for it is the end of the week and we are good, decent Christian people, God bless us and God bless everybody, and as they are about to get into the helicopter, an Air Force officer rushes up in alarm and says, please, just give us a moment, and he has three people scrubbing so quickly to clean the blood from the helicopter and then Bush and his wife get aboard and they fly off to Camp David, for where else would you go on a weekend, and as they have neglected to have two men hanging out of the windows and inspecting the sides of the craft in midair, nobody can see the blood back on the helicopter. As they get off at at Camp David, Bush's hand brushes against baby blood on the plane, as does his wife's. At this hour in London, Blair arises in the middle of his long night and goes to the bathroom to try and wash this blood off. He couldn't do it before he went to bed. In Washington, Rumsfeld stares at the red splotches on both his hands and Colin Powell calls out that there must be something wrong with the soap because it does not get the blood off his hands. At Camp David, Bush notices blood on his right hand and he goes to the bathroom to wash it off and he holds his hands under the water and rubs them with a bar of soap and then puts them under the water and he takes them out and holds them out to dry with a towel. He glances at his hands and sees the blood of the dead baby is bright on his fingers. He mutters and washes the hands again. He will do it again. Again this year and then next year and through all the years because the blood remains forever on the hands. Copyright � 2003, Newsday, Inc.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 22:53:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Doug Rokke served as the Theatre 12th Preventative Medicine Command health physicist with the 3rd U.S. Army Medical Command in the Persian Gulf War. Rokke had overall responsibility for radiological safety in the war, and his team was charged with the "clean up" of DU-contaminated battlefields and equipment in Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. His team never received any specialized training or protective gear. Within two weeks of his return from duty in the Middle East, Rokke and the other members of his DU assessment team began developing health problems. "The Department of Defense doesn't want to admit that DU is harmful because they don't want the liability," he says. In March of 1991, Rokke says he received a faxed memorandum from Lt. Col. Ziehmn of Los Alamos National Laboratory suggesting "that we didn't 'find' anything that would disrupt the military's use of depleted uranium. They were using it, period."
should have held their breath while cleaning
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 21:21:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Keep your eye on the Boston Globe headlines. They say it all.
O'Reilly
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 21:03:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Why do we have to keep pushing this thing? Don't we already have most of the oil?
Clyde Harrington
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:54:00 (EST)

My two cents are: The best part of the war so far is that stinky whore press flack at the Pentagon. When she showed the films of the Bush-supported gassing of the Iranians at a supposed news briefing it was hilarious, in a sick way. This is the quality of the people Snippy and Rummy have working for them, this scolding librarian revealing to the world and a bunch of reporters the fact that Saddam Hussein and Rummy gassed people back in the '80's.
Hard to tell where the spin stops and the dead Marines start.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:52:12 (EST)

My two cents are: If you read down to the yellow font below, you will find that Bush is a sharp fellow who went to fancy schools and won elections in Texas. No, I don't think we can give such a man a pass on this one. He must sit in the defendant's chair along with the others, when the war criminals are finally caught and brought to trial.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:42:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I give Snippy a pass. He is just a dumb kid who never grew up. This is Cheney's war, and Rumsfeld's. They are the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of this adventure.
The Walrus
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:38:49 (EST)

My two cents are: This "instinct" you talk about is a load of hooey. I will not fight for Saddam Hussein no matter how much urban warfare John Ashcroft brings to bear against me.
patriot
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:36:21 (EST)

My two cents are: President Bush was in it up to his eyeballs. ANYONE stupid enough to think that an urban war in someone else's territory after massive bombing is going to be bloodless, quick and easy is braindead. The instinct is to fight and protect your turf, regardless of who the damn leader is at the time.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:19:17 (EST)

My two cents are: BEIRUT: Middle East expert and former Central Intelligence Agency officer Robert Baer has charged that the American-led war in Iraq is a dire mistake based on false assumptions and faulty information, but that President George W. Bush cannot stop now and leave Saddam Hussein in power after the long emotional and political buildup to the war. "The American people, Congress, government and president were conned into this war, in the full sense of the word, by neo-conservatives and hawks in Washington who sold a false bill of goods. The president was lied to and given erroneous information that was filtered through Iraqi exiles who had not lived in Iraq for 20 or 30 years and had no clear idea of realities inside Iraq. The exiles had no intention of fighting themselves, but wanted the US to fight for them," he told The Daily Star Thursday in an interview. The 21-year CIA veteran quit the agency in good standing about five years ago, and was given the Career Intelligence Medal for his service. He called this "almost an accidental war," against the backdrop of an American population that did not bother with foreign affairs but suddenly suffered the wrenching emotional experience of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. "There was already in place among some circles in Washington an old plan to attack Iraq. After Sept. 11, 2001 it was sold to the president, who was told that this would be a quick, decisive, easy, almost bloodless operation, at little expense and with no resistance by Iraqis, with Saddam Hussein gone at a flash of the muzzle. But it has not worked out that way. Determined Iraqis who stalled mechanized divisions in southern Iraq are not just pockets of resistance. In its first week the war did not go as planned." Baer, who has published a book on his years in the CIA and is now publishing a second book about Saudi Arabia, said the worst scenario for the US is to surround and lay siege to Baghdad and its 5 million people. He fears that this will increase the bitterness felt against the US by Arabs and Muslims, who increasingly see Americans as hostile to them. He is also concerned "that young Americans now are fighting and dying in Iraq based on faulty analyses from questionable sources," but he cannot see Bush stopping the war now. "President Bush spent nine months working the American population into a frenzy of fear and anger about Saddam Hussein, and he cannot now tell them that it was not so serious after all, that he has to stop the war and leave Saddam in power." The best way to minimize long-term damage to the US' standing in this region is for Washington "to make a brisk, clean transition to Iraqi or Iraqi-UN rule after the war ends, offer substantial assistance for reconstruction, leave the Iraqis alone , and turn America's attention quickly to achieving a fair resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict." �
A smoke and a blindfold for this traitor!
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:15:06 (EST)

My two cents are: That was me.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:12:10 (EST)

My two cents are: I picked up on that too. Pissed me off but I bit my tongue and said nothing about what I really thought. Not to the ladies. I may be stupid but I'm not dumb, as my stepfather used to say.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:11:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Having spent two weeks among foreigners, I can report that they are sick bastards who hate Bush and love Clinton. E-vil traitors, every one of them.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:05:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Lead is the same as depleted uranium, only lighter and never having been pleated.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:03:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Hard to get a measured patriotic message in edgewise.
Harl
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:01:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Is the conquered oil in the pipeline yet? These gas prices are pissing me off.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:01:28 (EST)

My two cents are: I get it. Like your brain, St. Wolf. Depleted.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:00:59 (EST)

My two cents are: What part of D-E-P-L-E-T-E-D don't you understand? It's DEPLETED!!! Duh!
Harl
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:00:05 (EST)

My two cents are: I am back, and what shocks and awes me is the liberal spin. It is loathsome.
traveler
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 20:00:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, we are using depleted uranium, but the Iraqi is using lead. Which would you rather have, a gutful of depleted uranium or a gutful of lead? If we left it up to you, people would be shooting each other with marshmallows and marzipan.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:57:54 (EST)

My two cents are: I blame each loss of our boys' lives on Klintoon. It was he who demoralized them all.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:57:36 (EST)

My two cents are: It was the swiftness of Rummy's conquest that left me in shock and awe. Is everybody back?
Harlan St. Wolf
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:56:19 (EST)

My two cents are: We would own even more sand in Iraq if the blow-jobber-in-chief hadn't let our weapons systems degrade by taking their development out of the hands of Republican contractors.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:55:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Whose side is Doug Rokke on? There will be an accounting.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:47:01 (EST)

My two cents are: In less than two weeks Rumsfeld has conquered two-thirds of Iraq, yet the liebrals say he is a chump who doesn't know his way around a battlefield. The game is ours, and the rest is just mopping up.
Keep martyring yourselves, I love it.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:44:59 (EST)

My two cents are: BRITISH and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction. DU contaminates land, causes ill-health and cancers among the soldiers using the weapons, the armies they target and civilians, leading to birth defects in children. Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's depleted uranium project -- a former professor of environmental science at Jacksonville University and onetime US army colonel who was tasked by the US department of defense with the post-first Gulf war depleted uranium desert clean-up -- said use of DU was a 'war crime'. Rokke said: 'There is a moral point to be made here. This war was about Iraq possessing illegal weapons of mass destruction -- yet we are using weapons of mass destruction ourselves.' He added: 'Such double-standards are repellent.'
WMD?
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:42:35 (EST)

My two cents are: They are and it is. Yet I believe the liebrals will never learn to live with it. They will have to stand aside and let the real Americans deal with our defense, body count notwithstanding.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:36:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Iraqis are traitors and enemies of America. The truth hurts.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:30:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like an easy game. Where do I sign up?
Ruben Lincoln
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:19:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, the enemy only picks up four. Every body counts regardless of cause of death. Except, of course, "friendly fire," or "lost ball" deaths, as they are colloquially termed. Each of those count as two to the benefit of the opponent. Oh, and 10 civilian deaths equals one body. It behooves both sides to make sure you're killing the enemy or, at the very least civilians. However, the Iraqis chances of killing civilian (in Iraq) is limited, giving them a possible edge in this particular statistical category, UNLESS America really needs the points and starts carpet bombing Basra. Then, even with the 10=1 rule, points can come quickly. This could matter in the last quarter (as it did for Nixon back on Christmas, 1972.)
Ref
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:15:41 (EST)

My two cents are: But still a net of four, body count-wise, right?
Scorekeeper
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 19:05:46 (EST)

My two cents are: On the other hand, 5 dead Marines equals 5 gravesites, equals five picnic areas for the Breightlys.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 18:59:28 (EST)

My two cents are: A suicide bomber does count. If a suicide bomber kills 5 Marines, the net is 4. In a close game, this could be important.
Ref
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 18:58:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Trouble with body count is, what counts? A finger? A leg? If a suicide bomber kills 5 Marines, do we get to count the bomber on the enemy tally? I mean, it was suicide, right? I say a dead suicide bomber counts as an enemy weapon, not a body. And what about good sportsmanship? I say it's playing dirty to send out suicide bombers. Maybe the penalty for such infractions should be ten bodies and a loss of down.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 17:58:54 (EST)

My two cents are: My guess is we're ahead on body count, but not as far ahead as we were in Nam. Now that was some bitchin' body count!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 17:51:59 (EST)

My two cents are: How's the Bush War going? I don't have cable. Did we get good body count today?
traveler
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 17:37:32 (EST)

My two cents are: So that's where they all come from. Or end up there, or something.
Glint
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 17:20:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Weather Underground: Changling, Shen-Yang Forecast ... Changling, Shen-Yang this page to your Favorites, 44.2� N 124.0� E | MapBlast. ... Conditions. Updated: 2:00 PM CST on March 28, 2003 Observed at Changling, China. ...
changling?
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 17:08:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Today's Top Five Headlines on BuzzFlash.com: BEYOND BELIEF! US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush! Everyday! While They Do The Dying, Just Like Bush Let Other Men Die In His Place When He Ran Away >From Serving in Vietnam Like a True Coward, As Did Dick Cheney. Bush Betrays Our Veterans: It's That Clear and Simple! He Only Supports Sending Other People's Sons and Daughters to Get Killed. There are No Rich Kids Fighting this War. Daniel Ellsberg Rips Aaron Brown a New One! If Only a Democrat Knew How to Challenge the Framing of a Question the Way Ellsberg Does! Go, Dan, Go! 3/31 Jimmy Breslin: The Blood of a Baby on Bush's Hands 3/30 This Administration is Marked by a Series of Blunders, Failures, Miscalculations, Lies, Deceptions, Intimidating Actions, Threats and Bribery. And Yet They are Still Taken Seriously. Are We In a Parallel Universe? 3/30
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 17:05:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Woodon ships on the water, very free and easy.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 16:39:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Oops--does that mean that Pentagon generals are treasonous Demonrats?
"This is the mess Rummy put himself in . . . ."
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 15:39:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Boy, I think it's safe to say the folks in the Pentagon want it known that Rumsfeld is at fault for the mistaken assumptions that were part of the warplan: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly rejected advice from Pentagon planners that substantially more troops and armor would be needed to fight a war in Iraq, New Yorker Magazine reported. In an article for its April 7 edition, which goes on sale on Monday, the weekly said Rumsfeld insisted at least six times in the run-up to the conflict that the proposed number of ground troops be sharply reduced and got his way. "He thought he knew better. He was the decision-maker at every turn," the article quoted an unidentified senior Pentagon planner as saying. "This is the mess Rummy put himself in because he didn't want a heavy footprint on the ground." It also said Rumsfeld had overruled advice from war commander Gen. Tommy Franks to delay the invasion until troops denied access through Turkey could be brought in by another route and miscalculated the level of Iraqi resistance. "They've got no resources. He was so focused on proving his point -- that the Iraqis were going to fall apart," the article, by veteran journalist Seymour Hersh, cited an unnamed former high-level intelligence official as saying. Goodness. Hersh took Perle down a couple of weeks ago (sort of, Perle's still on the Defense Policy Board) and now he's moved on to Rumsfeld. BTW, our supply lines are so stretched at the moment that some marines are only getting one meal per day and some are being fed by Iraqi civilians. I would assume that both of these things aren't "part of the plan," are they?
rummy's a dummy <just like his boss>
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 15:38:06 (EST)

My two cents are: I know the reporter mentioned down there. Vernon Loeb has visited the Glint palace. Sat in the kitchen even. SAid a house like that on such a spread would cost millions on his home planet, Montgomery County. Waved at spy sats together as they reconnoitered the observatory from above. (01)
Glint
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 15:24:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, it's not what the word changeling means. I said changling!
Glint
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 15:18:26 (EST)

My two cents are: No, its called a "stretch." The effort of the treasonous demonrats to find any reason to criticize. Amusing really. as desperate as car bombers. Both socialsit traitors.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 15:16:31 (EST)

My two cents are:

"[Rumsfeld's Incompetent, Arrogant Decisions No Doubt Have Led to the Deaths of Many of Our Soldiers." Nowhere near the number of dead Iraqi Saddam suckers. - Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 15:15:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Baghdad's children pay the price of freedom with their lives By Craig Nelson in Baghdad March 31 2003 A child wounded near the al-Naser Market in Baghdad receives hospital treatment. Photo: AFP/al-Jazeera From outside on the dirt street, the wailing was like a beacon of grief, arcing across the cloudless, star-lit night. Inside, a dozen women clad in full-length black cloaks sat huddled on the floor of a living room, bobbing back and forth and sending piercing, high-pitched screams into the night. Under the glow of a single kerosene lamp, three rough-hewn wooden caskets containing the bodies of the male children of the al-Hamdani family, aged 20, 18 and 12, lay on the floor. Neighbours said they were killed when a bomb or missile struck a crowded, open-air market about 15 metres away from their home. The crater gouged out of the hard dirt street wasn't large, but hot shrapnel struck two of the boys in the chest and one directly in the head, killing them all instantly, the neighbours said. advertisement advertisement Iraqi officials and medical workers said at least 58 people were killed and 50 were wounded in the blast late on Friday in Baghdad's al-Shu'la district. The explosion was immediately blamed on a US bomb or missile. Iraqi officials escorted foreign reporters to the explosion scene in western Baghdad and to nearby al-Noor Hospital. US Central Command in Qatar said it was looking into the report. It marks the second incident in the past week in which an explosion in a Baghdad neighbourhood was blamed on US-led air strikes. On Wednesday, another explosion killed 14 people. In that blast, US military officials acknowledged that they had targeted Iraqi military installations in residential areas. However, they said that the blast could have been caused by an errant Iraqi missile. Iraqi officials and some ordinary citizens claim that the US and Britain, frustrated with their progress, have deliberately taken the fight to Iraq's civilians. Salama Zaki al-Said is one such Iraqi. He was shopping in the al-Shu'la market when he heard jets high overhead. Seconds later a blast shook the street, demolishing shop stalls and ripping gaping holes in a parked red Volkswagen sedan. Dr Ahmed Sufian, a resident at al-Noor Hospital, said he had been treating "severe" injuries, describing a 1-year-old girl who suffered open intestinal wounds in the blast. "I'm a doctor and I can't understand this. They come to free us? This is freedom?"
They come to free us? This is freedom?
no it's not, it's bushist fascism. heil!, - Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 15:15:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Changeling. Plus, that's not even what the word means.
sigh
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 15:07:28 (EST)

My two cents are: US officials blame Rumsfeld for small army By Vernon Loeb in Washington March 31 2003 Related links: Day 11 state of play Current and former United States military officers have blamed the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and his aides for the inadequate troop strength on the ground in Iraq. They allege the civilian leaders "micromanaged" the deployment plan out of mistrust of the generals and in an attempt to prove their own theory that a light, manoeuvrable force could easily defeat Saddam Hussein. More than a dozen officers, including a senior officer in Iraq, said Mr Rumsfeld took significant risks by leaving key units in the US and Germany at the start of the war, resulting in a invasion force that is too small, strung out, underprotected, undersupplied and awaiting tens of thousands of reinforcements who will not get there for weeks. "The civilians in [Mr Rumsfeld's office] vetoed the priority and sequencing of joint forces into the region ... and manipulated it to support their priorities," said an officer who asked to remain anonymous. General Barry McCaffrey, who commanded a division during the 1991 Gulf War, said he told a senior member of Mr Rumsfeld's staff that the secretary's office had to stop meddling in the deployment and let army commanders have the units they believed they needed to fight. advertisement advertisement Mr Rumsfeld "sat on each element for weeks and wanted an explanation for every unit called up out of the National Guard and Reserve and argued about every 42-man maintenance detachment", General McCaffrey said. "The bottom line is a lack of trust that these army generals knew what they were doing."
we're shocked, shocked and awed, at bushist incompetence
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 15:06:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Snowing like crazy here since 08:00. Could get six inches. Flakes as big as a four bit piece. Pic of the changling down there sort of snazzes up the old page, doesn't it? (01)
Glnit
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 15:06:19 (EST)

My two cents are: It's one thing for a rube to find to find such lame shit funny. After all a rube is a rube. It's quite another thing to want to share the lame shit with sophisticated, urbane liberals. Why would a rube even think of posting the lame shit? Guess that's what makes a rube a rube.
Sigh
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 12:37:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 12:18:14 (EST)
classic rube witticism
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 12:29:38 (EST)

My two cents are: "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war."
And the USA is an starting wars
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 12:25:59 (EST)

My two cents are: "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 12:18:14 (EST)

My two cents are: The war IS going easy, traitor! Less than two weeks ago we could not claim one lousy acre of Iraqi sand as our own. Now we OWN miles of that very sand! The fact that our troops are now surrounded by Iraqi bastards who don't know what a fair fight is should not be allowed to obscure this essential truth! WE OWN THE SAND!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 10:53:19 (EST)

My two cents are: ''The civilian hierarchy at the Pentagon really believed this was going to be a lot easier than this is turning out,'' said Jay C. Farrar, a former senior Pentagon official.
Shocked and Awed in Chump City
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 09:59:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Lose? That's not in my playbook.
traveler
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 09:56:55 (EST)

My two cents are: And only hours before the war, Colonel Gary L. Crowder, a chief of strategy at Air Combat Command, was asked at a Pentagon briefing whether the military was overconfident. ''We have every reason to be confident. We're the finest military in the world. . . . We can anticipate the unanticipated, we're looking at all the things that can possibly go wrong, but we wouldn't be doing this if we thought we were going to lose.''
I too am confident. And I don't say things lightly.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 09:56:04 (EST)

My two cents are: I also think the VP could be right. And I don't say things lightly.
traveler
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 09:54:58 (EST)

My two cents are: White House spokesman Ari Fleischer also said that Cheney's prediction of ''weeks rather than months'' could still be correct. ''I assure you the vice president does not say things lightly,'' Fleischer said. ''So when the vice president says something like that, he has good reason to say it and to think it, and therefore to say it.''
Chrome Dome Speaks Out
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 09:53:18 (EST)

My two cents are: On March 16, Vice President Dick Cheney said on CBS ''Face the Nation,'' ''I think it will go relatively quickly. . . . Weeks rather than months.'' Also that day, he told NBC's ''Meet the Press,'' ''I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.''
From an Undisclosed Location
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 09:52:09 (EST)

My two cents are: �News agencies cited sources as saying that Cheney will arrive in Amman next Friday. He will try to convince his daughter, who is currently staying at a hotel in Amman, not to go to Baghdad along with a group of volunteers who want to go to Iraq and form human shields against the Anglo American attacks,� said the report. Now, after the war started, it seems there are not just political but also financial reasons for Mr. Cheney's strong support for the raids on Iraq. When it comes to making money from a war in Iraq, few can match the firepower of the company once headed by Dick Cheney, Reuters reported. Houston-based Halliburton Co. can build roads and bridges and camps for US forces. It can transport personnel and provide other logistics. And after the war, assuming a U.S. victory, it can help restore Iraq's infrastructure and oil production. At the same time, the company's oilfield services business, which is second only to Schlumberger Ltd., is likely to supply most of the heavy equipment to fight fires in oil wells and oil fields. And should the U.S. emerge victorious, Halliburton -- which develops oil fields and drills for oil all over the world -- has the connections and businesses to play a major role in "rebuilding" Iraq. "They have the businesses. They have the government relationship already well-established, and, as we all know, Cheney was the CEO, so it makes logical sense," said Denis Walsh, an equity analyst who covers the energy sector for State Street Research and Management. For all these reasons, one should not be surprised that the American VP will hurry to Amman and try to bring his "rebellious" daughter back home....
diabolically clever, if true
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 09:45:53 (EST)

My two cents are: What was so interesting about him? Isn't pure corruption interesting too?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 09:37:59 (EST)

My two cents are: was interesting
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 08:39:24 (EST)

My two cents are: The difference is that Fritz Perls is interesting and cool, and Richard Perle cooked up this imperialist invasion to grab Iraq's oil--long before 9/11.
no more blood for oil
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 08:39:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Today's Top Five Headlines on BuzzFlash.com: Rumsfeld Should be Tried Before a Military Tribunal for Endangering Our Troops. His Incompetent, Arrogant Decisions No Doubt Have Led to the Deaths of Many of Our Soldiers. Humanitarian Relief: Iraqi civilians feed hungry US marines. Yes, The Iraqi Refugees are Feeding Our Undersupplied Soldiers. Bush Should be Impeached. It Won't Happen, Because His Republican Lackeys Care More About Their Own Power Than Our Soldiers. BEYOND BELIEF! US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush. 3/30 "Every day public statements on the war are made with great bravado by British and US leaders. A day later most of them turn out to be inaccurate or untrue." 3/30 The Bush Legacy: "We had a great day," Sergeant Schrumpf said. "We killed a lot of people." And "I'm sorry," the sergeant said. "But the chick was in the way." 3/30
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 08:36:50 (EST)

My two cents are: What's all this about Cheney's daughter going over as a Human Shield?
Flipp
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 21:36:30 (EST)

My two cents are: These Iraqis fight dirty. They're as bad as the dang Viet Cong.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 21:33:31 (EST)

My two cents are: How do you suppose they got that idea, trav? Have the socialists been spewing their lies abroad?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 21:29:07 (EST)

My two cents are: What strikes me about here and overseas is that overseas pretty much everyone assumes that Bush is an illigitimate president. And that's good, because it gets you and me off the hook.
traveler
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 21:27:59 (EST)

My two cents are: I can save that pensioner a lot of explaining: the foreigners are all lying traitors. Impolite lying traitors. They are missing the essential ingredient: they don't love America enough.
traveler
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 21:13:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Fritz, Richard, what's the difference? The soft guy with the contracts.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 21:11:58 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm going to comment on news coverage of this thing, foreign vis a vis rube, but I can't right now what with the jet lag and booze and various other horrors of various degree. But there is a difference, bigtime.
Pensioner
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:53:38 (EST)

My two cents are: God if only it had been Fritz Perls, instead of Richard Perle's sophomore wet-dream. We'd all have been making deep personal progress, instead of digging our country's deep personal grave.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:42:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, its such fun to be the country invading another country in total defiance of international law. What? Me, obey international law? I'd sooner allow Henry Kissinger to be tried as a war criminal for overthrowing a democratically elected head of state, killing him, and invading Cambodia, and watching the East Timorese get slaughtered! Really!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:40:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Rumsfeld, sure, but I seem to remember Cheney as the major cheerleader after Fritz Perle. It was Cheney who said it would be short and easy and that the Iraqis would come forth cheering. Cheney, the guy from Halliburton. That guy.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:39:42 (EST)

My two cents are: I never came home to an aggressor homeland before. Feels good. Tough and competent, like a guy pounding Leyland cypress stakes.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:37:45 (EST)

My two cents are: War likely wouldn't last long: Rumsfeld Last Updated Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:29:35 ROME - U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began a trip to Europe Friday by telling troops any conflict with Iraq would probably be over within months. INDEPTH: Iraq He made the prediction during an address to hundreds of U.S. military personnel inside a hangar at an air base near the northern Italian town of Aviano. Donald Rumsfeld at the the US Air Force Base in Aviano, Italy "It is not knowable how long that conflict would last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months," Rumsfeld told them.
PICKLE JAR OF REAL PEOPLE'S LIBERATION!
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:37:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Thanks a lot, Snip. You ruined my homecoming. Expected to see the coonskin nailed to the barn wall.
If I were an Arab, I'd support you, Snip.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:36:15 (EST)

My two cents are: And it would have been a matter of weeks, if it hadn't been for all those Hollywood drop-outs down-bumming the troops.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:34:25 (EST)

My two cents are: sorry we can't consult pickle jar when it proves how dickless and criminally incompetent we and bushist admin. are. oh well. free speech? cover up? why not.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:33:35 (EST)

My two cents are: ok, they're dickless criminally incompetent boobs: dick, bush, and rummy. what else is new.
NO BLOOD FOR HUBRIS
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:32:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Does anyone have the quotation from Cheney about how easy this was going to be? Something like "a matter of weeks, not months?" On the Sunday before the start of this thing, I believe was the last time? Pickle jar?
???
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:32:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Yo, is Glint pretending he doesn't ogle Brenda and corpses?
Leyland Pinocchio
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:30:46 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly rejected advice from Pentagon planners that substantially more troops and armor would be needed to fight a war in Iraq, New Yorker Magazine reported. In an article for its April 7 edition, which goes on sale on Monday, the weekly said Rumsfeld insisted at least six times in the run-up to the conflict that the proposed number of ground troops be sharply reduced and got his way. "He thought he knew better. He was the decision-maker at every turn," the article quoted an unidentified senior Pentagon planner as saying. "This is the mess Rummy put himself in because he didn't want a heavy footprint on the ground." It also said Rumsfeld had overruled advice from war commander Gen. Tommy Franks to delay the invasion until troops denied access through Turkey could be brought in by another route and miscalculated the level of Iraqi resistance.
????
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:30:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, and Charlton Heston--who's half dead, and John Wayne, who's all dead. Like Little Bushit's brain.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:28:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Little Bushits are jealous they don't make hollywood millions. Plus their only stars are Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger--and he's married to a Kennedy.
awwww
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:27:27 (EST)

My two cents are: he always resigns when he doesn't. part of being a liar. or a lari. lrai. you get the picture. anyhow, glint's sent his daughter to the front lines to defend his right to ogle brenda.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:25:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Thought it would be over by now, but people in the airports were watching it on television. And what's this about Perle resigning? Why would a guy resign right when he's on a roll?
traveler
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:21:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, I just got back from off-shore. How's the war going?
traveler
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:19:48 (EST)

My two cents are: //Pete: completed high school. Rumored to have taken night courses at Golden Gate University.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 20:17:11 (EST)

My two cents are: How can the Democrats remain quiet. In his rush to launch a war that would benefit his contributors, Bush left our Marines undersupplied and supply lines stretched too thin. Some are, according to corroborated reports, nearly without food. As a result, this Agence France Presse article reveals a shocking development: Iraqi Refugees Are Feeding Our Marines! We are not making this up. Some BuzzFlash readers have said that we should not advocate impeaching Bush. We know that his Republican lackeys will choose preserving their power over the welfare of our soldiers. We know the Democrats are too scared to speak up. But that won't stop us from stating what should happening. Bush should be impeached and indicted. Anybody who cares about our soldiers -- truly cares -- should be speaking out about how they have been shafted by this administration.
confederacy of bushist dunces
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 18:54:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Who is posting pics featuring dead folks? Got any more picture of kids killed by Iraqi fire like the one below at 12:52? (01)
Glint
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 18:23:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Correction: fair or poor, 43%
Zogby
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 17:57:56 (EST)

My two cents are: BUSH'S Job rating: good or excellent: 57%. poor or fair: 41%.
love, Zogby
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 17:56:28 (EST)

My two cents are: close parens after the last bush
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 17:50:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Learn to spell, dickhead. (Larry Hagman--part of the intelligentsia? Yeah, like affirmative action "Yalie" Bush. His ivy degrees bought and paid for by Daddy bush.
intelligentsia
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 17:50:04 (EST)

My two cents are: As the war in Iraq enters its second week, President George W. Bush's approval rating rose to 68 percent--a 15-percent increase from two weeks ago, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll.
read it and weep cowards!
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 17:12:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Butt-Boyz

Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 17:09:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Barbra Streisand : Completed high school //Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. //Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. // Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year. //Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal. //Julia Roberts: Completed high school. //Sean Penn: Completed High school. //Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. //Ed Asner: Completed High school. //George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky. //Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of Michigan. //Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School. //Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School. //Mike Farrell: Completed High school. //Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College. //Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year.
Acticide
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 17:01:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Barbra Streisand : Completed high school Career: Singing and acting //Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. Career: Singing and acting //Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. Career: Acting// Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year. Career: Acting //Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal. Career: Acting //Julia Roberts: Completed high school. Career: Acting //Sean Penn: Completed High school. Career: Acting //Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Career: Acting //Ed Asner: Completed High school. Career: Acting //George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky. Career: Acting //Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of Michigan. Career: Movie Director //Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School. Career: Acting //Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School. Career: Acting //Mike Farrell: Completed High school. Career: Acting //Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College. Career: Stand up comedienne //Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year. Career: Acting
This is what passes as liberal "intelligensia"
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 16:33:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Man, sonmeone has a poker that's big around as a fist up their ass down there 09:35:16. I smell pus.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 16:11:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Has Poe enlisted yet?
put your daughter where your rant is
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 16:11:13 (EST)

My two cents are: get off on it, do you, Glint?
sip, sip
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 16:09:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 16:09:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Collateral Damage

Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 12:52:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Despite stronger-than-expected fighting in Iraq's south and more deaths of American and British troops, Bush was steadfastly optimistic about the war's outlook. He was spending the second weekend of the invasion, like the first, at Camp David.
james bond play station 2
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 12:52:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Today's Top Five Headlines on BuzzFlash.com: A Photo of the Bush Cartel's "Collateral Damage" in Baghdad 58 killed in Baghdad airstrike. Bush is Showing Us How to Win the Hearts and Minds of Iraqis. More of Bush Cartel's "Collateral Damage" in Baghdad Bush Cartel Informally Renames Key Iraqi Airport for, You Got It, Bush 3/28 Bush's War: Blood on His Hands (Extremely Graphic Photos) 3/29
graphic corpse pix--just up glint's alley!
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 10:37:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Is that Brenda? Cute. So stifle your pervishness, Perv.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 09:40:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't Look Back Schlock and Gawk By ADAM ENGEL Again I saw that goofy puss on enormous screens around Times Square and glossy magazines and color photo Gab-loids galore peddled alongside �Hustler� and �Chic� and other clean, honest, American porn at corner kiosks, and despite myself I laughed and gave Dubya some degree of credit for his courage. Imagine not merely owning a mug like that, but exposing it daily to worldwide scrutiny and certain ridicule! On the other hand, it is a beastly face, both goofy and menacing, the face of an angry mutt, a punim I�m sure had been pummeled much by the sons of other oilmen, spooks and politicos during its formative years. Might be the reason behind all that inarticulate rage. We Americans must be a craven, sinister lot to �rally round� such a kisser and follow its hollow eyes to only god knows what circle of hell. Or maybe we�re just ! a nation of children. Somebody must lead the children, since they are obviously not responsible for themselves. Someone must save us from ourselves. True, we�re bombarded on all sides with propaganda, but who isn�t? People the world over pay lip-service to their government�s bullshit, but they don�t take it SERIOUSLY. Can you imagine showing someone in that Axis-Of-Evil-To-Be, France/Germany/Russia, USA Today or the NY Post or TIME? The ridiculous prose, the blazing graphics -- all for about three pages -- then ZAP! right to the celebrities and how rich and playful they are. Oh, and beautiful and lovelorn and tormented by TIME and Fame. I watched the Americans around 42nd Street and Broadway -- Times Square -- with their heads down like dogs who crapped Mom�s Persian rug -- close; Iran�s next -- or better yet: Raskolnikov. They knew they�d done something horribly, horribly wrong, something that no one, not their lawyers, shrinks, Yoga masters, dieticians, would! help them get away with. But all they could talk about was the perceived payback, not the crime itself: �We�re on high alert.� �Do you think they�ll hit New York again? My Uncle Dom has a place in the Pocanos..� �Just stay away from crowds�� Oh, what about the children?� Yeah, what about us, stained as we are with other children�s blood? Think about that scene in Kubrick�s �A Clockwork Orange,� when our long-suffering narrator, Alex, takes his ultra-violence kick a step too far and kills a woman. His erstwhile youth probation officer, Mr. Deltoid, comes to visit him at the station house and explain some hard facts. Like for instance, Alex is in a different league now. No longer under Mr. Deltoid�s cruel, yet familiar, quasi-avuncular jurisdiction. �You�re a murderer, Alex. A MURDERER!� Those damned and damning Gab-loids like flashbulbs in our faces. True, the �Grey Lady� or �Iron Maiden� or whatever the hell they call! the New York Times peddles as much poop per paragraph as any other paper, but at least the NYT attempts to make it look real. They go on at some length, 20 inches and more in those articles, to mimic objectivity and in-depth analysis, even though they�re going over the same lurid, Pentagon-approved twaddle and could probably insert �dummy� sentences, like naughty kids writing �punishment essays� after school (�This sucks!� in the middle of a two page essay on �How to Behave Patriotically in Class� etc.). Really, who would notice? But do we children believe everything the fourth estate (heavily mortgaged to what Blanche Dubois delicately dubbed �epic fornications�) tells us? Hell, even a child -- uh that�s us, I think -- can look at all the keen graphics they�re hawking and see a bunch of U.S. soldiers bogged down in the sand, fighting an angry native populous (last time it was mud, not sand; it was mud in Vietnam, was it not?) or giant mushrooms of fire erupting from! a city that from far away looks very much like LA. What, are they gonna tell us that no civilians are gonna get hurt, maimed, killed, obliterated, that perhaps thousands of human beings aren�t being wiped off the planet by blast waves and fire? Are we stupid? Are we insane? Have we no grasp of the reality of the situation, or are we so sensitive to our powerlessness that we lay awake at night plagued by syndicated Kafkaesque nightmares in rerun (the rights to Franz�s nightmares are owned by Fox, I think, but I�m not sure)? It sucks being a kid. Imagine if, in this nation of 280 some-odd million decorticated zombies looking for the optimal personal solution and feel-good formula for weight loss, self-esteem, pine-scented genitals, whatever we�re supposed to be lacking, whatever essential trait we were somehow born without, there were ten million committed ADULTS. That�s not even five percent of the population. Imagine if we were part of this cabal of Gr! own-ups. Ten million of us to stop paying taxes, march en masse to OUR capital to demand an immediate end to this illegal, immoral, insane war. Ten million MATURE HUMANS who might threaten to really screw things up by standing up for Truth, Justice and the�uh, the American (??!!) way. Or even just sit down and do nothing -- in the middle of our respective town plazas or main streets or whatever. Traffic jams. Resistance. Rebellion, dispassionate yet absolute. Bartleby the Scrivener: �I would prefer not to.� How would they clean us up? Kill us? Throw us ALL in jail? Possibly. For instance, what�s with those brilliant colored blast photos on the cover of every journal, website and magazine? Intended to titillate or intimidate? I mean, We The People, minors that we are in every sense, are still SOMEWHAT important, aren�t we? Should we be worried? They wouldn�t try to shock and awe US, would they? They�re not trying to scare US with all this high tech military mig! ht we paid for with our hard-earned dollars. Right? Uh�RIGHT? Oh, fuck it. Who wants to grow up here anyway? Maybe it�s time for a bunch of us kids to just up and leave. Skeedaddle. Become bona fide RUNAWAYS. Find a way out of this interminable childhood in some foreign land. We�ll grace the sides of ten million milk cartons, we�ll be famous. Just don�t look back, or you�ll turn into a pillar of salt.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 09:35:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Third swing. Would you believe Poe's at the top of her class?
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 01:42:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Latest Brenda pic. But what is with this anti-V attitude?
Anonymous.
Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 01:29:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Poe sees herself as a red x?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 01:25:43 (EST)

My two cents are: For beleaguered Senate Democrats, it was a rare victory. Thinking his massive, $726 billion tax cut proposal was a sure thing, President Bush finally began discussing this week how much the war in Iraq might cost. The numbers, it turned out, were staggering, and the reason for the White House's stalling tactics suddenly became clear: the country simply can't afford both war and tax cuts. Within hours, the Senate reversed course and cut Bush's cherished tax cut in half.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 01:23:11 (EST)

My two cents are: URL error. Trying again. The next one's going to be a surprise!
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 01:17:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Poking around the computer and found an image archive. Looks like one of Poe's. Here's one of her self portraits I found there...
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 01:14:19 (EST)

My two cents are: "In neighbouring Jordan the frequent anti-war demonstrations have taken on an ever-more pro-Saddam tone. On Tuesday protesters in Amman waved pro-Saddam placards and chanted 'Iraq! Saddam! We will spend our blood for you!'"
us or them. squish them like bugs.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 00:49:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 00:36:21 (EST)

My two cents are: There was no respect when they were alive, that is why they joined army. There is no respect when they are dead.
Finn
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 23:59:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Pentagon Keeps Return of Iraqi War Dead from Media Fri March 28, 2003 06:16 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has no plans to allow media access to a U.S. Air Force base receiving the bodies of American soldiers killed in Iraq, a Defense Department spokeswoman said on Friday. The remains of 18 soldiers killed in the Iraq campaign and six who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan have arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware since Tuesday. Each time, a military chaplain has uttered prayers and an honor guard has carried flag-draped aluminum coffins to waiting vehicles. In some past conflicts, news cameras and reporters were allowed to record the transfer of soldiers' remains at the Dover base, which houses the U.S. military's largest morgue.
IT'S REAL BLOOD, SNIPPY--EVEN THOUGH YOU TRY TO HIDE IT, COWARD.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 23:41:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Dorothy Bush? Isn't that Snippy's real mother? Babs must be SO pissed.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 23:35:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Washington, DC--Cheney, Perle, Bush arrested on military-industrial complex fraud charges. Dorothy Bush distraught. Poppy Bush claiming class privilege.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 23:34:47 (EST)

My two cents are: There could be thousands of CIA agents amongs the UN forces to really kill Saddam if necessary. Unnecessary US miltary victims could be avoided.
Finn
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 23:00:03 (EST)

My two cents are: If Saddam is dead now should war be stopped. UN forces could take their place.
Finn
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 22:56:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Though this keneral Brooks is fucking cool.I Would like to fuck him in the ass if I where a Finnish woman.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 22:38:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Must say that japanese have the necessary high tecnology.
Finn
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 22:24:17 (EST)

My two cents are: But i know that there is growing movement in Europe to live without America.This means coalition between Russia,EU and China. In Europe there has been trust for American dream and that has been developed further.Now this trust has been destroyed. So there must be a new dream.It is a very big northern continent.Buying human rights is better busines than fighting for oil and power.
Finn
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 22:22:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes there is something hard to come. Let me tell what it is. It is a boycott of american products.If there is not victory in Iraq in several months and or no guaranee of Iraqi people to have the rights to their natural resources.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 22:08:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Get your daddy to buy yourself another dimension, flattie.
lustrous point
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 21:56:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't be too hard on the dim son moronists--it's been so hard on them, having to defend an affirmative action, military-AWOL, deficit-inflating, pollutionist, cronyist, invasion junkie.
a small voice inside the jismheads cries, NO, ITS WRONGG
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 21:54:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Very sorry ybout the abondonig comment. Rythmic problem. Not native Afrrican American.
Finn
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 21:51:56 (EST)

My two cents are: OK. I am a Finn.There seems to be sensor on this site because my comment is not in its supposed place. I think you should think this this site as abonded. If Bush do not have guts to fuck to a willing women, why he must make war out of that? Personally I think it is a crime to humanity not to fuck a woman if she is offering a possibility.Being not like should not lead to war!?
Finn
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 21:46:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Place a needle on the table. Then, with your eye on the level of the table, look at it side-ways, and you see the whole length of it; but look at it end-ways, and you see nothing but a point, it has become practically invisible. Just so is it with one of our Women. When her side is turned towards us, we see her as a straight line; when the end containing her eye or mouth -- for with us these two organs are identical -- is the part that meets our eye, then we see nothing but a highly lustrous point; but when the back is presented to our view, then -- being only sub-lustrous, and, indeed, almost as dim as an inanimate object -- her hinder extremity serves her as a kind of Invisible Cap. The dangers to which we are exposed from our Women must now be manifest to the meanest capacity of Spaceland. If even the angle of a respectable Triangle in the middle class is not without its dangers; if to run against a Working Man involves a gash; if collision with an Officer of the military class necessitates a serious wound; if a mere touch from the vertex of a Private Soldier brings with it danger of death; -- what can it be to run against a woman, except absolute and immediate destruction? And when a Woman is invisible, or visible only as a dim sub-lustrous point, how difficult must it be, even for the most cautious, always to avoid collision!
flatlander
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 20:58:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Gee, does it matter that Georgie Boy never showed up for actual flyboy duty? He musta really taken a lot of flak flying over Georgia!
our dim son hero--hero to dim sons everywhere
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 20:57:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Why is urinefont making a big deal about Georgie Boy getting his affirmative actions degrees at Harvard and Yale? The dollar has to be good for something! Think of all the money Halliburton and Cheney will make when they get contracts to rebuild the shit they damaged in Iraq! What fun!
Blair thinks Halliburton sucks
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 20:55:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Rebirth of the dictator as Arab hero March 29 2003 Stiff resistance by Iraqis and anger at the onslaught have rekindled pride on the Arab street, writes Ed O'Loughlin, Herald Correspondent in Amman. Saddam Hussein may previously have been largely discredited as a dictator, but by standing up to the might of the United States-led coalition, however ineffectively in the long term, his men are transforming him into an Arab hero once more. In neighbouring Jordan the frequent anti-war demonstrations have taken on an ever-more pro-Saddam tone. On Tuesday protesters in Amman waved pro-Saddam placards and chanted "Iraq! Saddam! We will spend our blood for you!" Among Palestinians, always grateful for Saddam's financial support for hospitals, schools and the families of suicide bombers, his crimes against his own people are largely forgotten. "The people on the street and who are in the struggle for the rights of the Palestinian people, they look at Saddam Hussein as one of their own leaders," said Riad Awad, an accountant from the West Bank city of Ramallah. "I am praying to God to save Saddam Hussein from these people." advertisement advertisement In Cairo, the respected Egyptian commentator Mohammed Sid Ahmad has noticed a similar change. "At the beginning there was a keenness amongst protesters to underline that we are not with Saddam, we are against the American war against Iraq," he said. "This distinction is certainly less stressed now than it was even a few days ago." Two things now unite the "Arab street". The first is anger at the suffering resulting from the Western onslaught. The second is a strong - if usually unstated - sense of relief that Iraq has confounded predictions that its soldiers would surrender en masse to superior US forces, as they did in 1991. The new mood is in marked contrast to the feelings of only a couple of weeks ago. Then, the world's 250 million Arabs watched in shame and anger as their autocratic leaders - nearly all of them clients of the US - failed to stand up to Washington's plans at an Arab League summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Suspicious of US intentions in this oil-rich region, bitterly angry at its continuing support for Israel against the Palestinians, most Arabs saw the squabbling summit as final confirmation of their powerlessness. The US-led invasion of Iraq would be only the first step in the complete recolonisation of the region, Arab journalists forecast. At best - or worst - Arabs would respond with a wave of unprecedented terrorism. The sight on Al-Jazeera television of dead US soldiers and of terrified, helpless captives, combined with the Western media's overblown war rhetoric and false coalition boasts of gains, has changed all this. Mustafa Hamarneh, director of the University of Jordan's Centre for Strategic Studies, says Iraq's resistance tells frustrated Arabs that even if they can't win they can fight back. "The resistance has changed everything," he said. "It has ignited the street, and showed that Arabs are able to resist with dignity. "This has boosted Saddam and complicated matters, some say for the better, some say for the worse, depending on where you stand politically." Dr Hamarneh believes the Iraqis' resistance will encourage radical Arabs - whether secular nationalists like Saddam or Islamic fundamentalists like al-Qaeda operatives - to believe that they can organise Arab sentiment against Israel and the US.
thanks a lot, dim son
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 20:52:03 (EST)

My two cents are: The earth is flat.
liberal
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 19:40:23 (EST)

My two cents are: My two cents are: See, ""ko" is intentional, my typos are not. You are not funny.
Pete acknowledges being unintentionally funny.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 17:06:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Mudda wit don't get past no entrance exam fo da University o Dayton now doit?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 17:06:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Can't get mother wit at any university. Either born with it or not.
george hasn't an ounce of mother wit
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 16:05:00 (EST)

My two cents are: That(Interview) is a real communistic act. Or more like generic politic act. How did Americans get rid of McCarthy und Hoover? In Russia they decided to give it all for maffia. In Europe is used method of being small and thus quiet. So far there has not been such terrorist attacks like iraqis did inSept.11.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 16:04:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
ollie in iraq
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 15:59:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Barbra Streisand : Completed high school Career: Singing and acting Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. Career: Singing and acting Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. Career: Acting Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year. Career: Acting Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal. Career: Acting Julia Roberts: Completed high school. Career: Acting Sean Penn: Completed High school. Career: Acting Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Career: Acting Ed Asner: Completed High school. Career: Acting George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky. Career: Acting Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of Michigan. Career: Movie Director Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School. Career: Acting Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School. Career: Acting Mike Farrell: Completed High school. Career: Acting Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College. Career: Stand up comedienne Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year. Career: Acting
And the liebrals follow these dopes and call our real leaders stupid? Stupid is as stupid does: liberals are morons.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 15:58:29 (EST)

My two cents are:

THE ENEMY IS STILL THE LYING TRAITOROUS LIBERAL DEMONRATS: HOLLYWOOD VS OUR LEADERS by Cindy Osborne The Hollywood group is at it again. Holding anti-war rallies, screaming about the Bush Administration, running ads in major newspapers, defaming the President and his Cabinet every chance they get, to anyone and everyone who will listen. They publicly defile them and call them names like "stupid", "morons", and "idiots". Jessica Lange went so far as to tell a crowd in Spain that she hates President Bush and is embarrassed to be an American. So, just how ignorant are these people who are running the country? Let's look at the biographies of these "stupid", "ignorant" , "moronic" leaders, and then at the celebrities who are castigating them: President George W. Bush: Received a Bachelors Degree from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served as an F-102 pilot for the Texas Air National Guard. He began his career in the oil and gas business in Midland in 1975 and worked in the energy industry until 1986. He was elected Governor on November 8, 1994, with 53.5 percent of the vote. In a historic re-election victory, he became the first Texas Governor to be elected to consecutive four-year terms on November 3, 1998 winning 68.6 percent of the vote. In 1998 Governor Bush won 49 percent of the Hispanic vote, 27 percent of the African-American vote, 27 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of women. He won more Texas counties, 240 of 254, than any modern Republican other than Richard Nixon in 1972 and is the first Republican gubernatorial candidate to win the heavily Hispanic and Democratic border counties of El Paso, Cameron and Hidalgo. (Someone began circulating a false story about his I.Q. being lower than any other President. If you believed it, you might want to go to URBANLEGENDS.COM and see the truth.) Vice President Dick Cheney: Earned a B.A. in 1965 and a M.A. in 1966, both in political science. Two years later, he won an American Political Science Association congressional fellowship. One of Vice President Cheney's primary duties is to share with individuals, members of Congress and foreign leaders, President Bush's vision to strengthen our economy, secure our homeland and win the War on Terrorism. In his official role as President of the Senate, Vice President Cheney regularly goes to Capital Hill to meet with Senators and members of the House of Representatives to work on the Administration's legislative goals. In his travels as Vice President, he has seen first hand the great demands the war on terrorism is placing on the men and women of our military, and he is proud of the tremendous job they are doing for the United States of America. Secretary of State Colin Powell: Educated in the New York City public schools, graduating from the City College of New York (CCNY), where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in geology. He also participated in ROTC at CCNY and received a commission as an Army second lieutenant upon graduation in June 1958. His further academic achievements include a Master of Business Administration Degree from George Washington University. Secretary Powell is the recipient of numerous U.S. and foreign military awards and decorations. Secretary Powell's civilian awards include two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President's Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of State Distinguished Service Medal, and the Secretary of Energy Distinguished Service Medal. Several schools and other institutions have been named in his honor and he holds honorary degrees from universities and colleges across the country. (Note: He retired as Four Star General in the United States Army.) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: Attended Princeton University on Scholarship (AB, 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as a Naval aviator; Congressional Assistant to Rep. Robert Griffin (R-MI), 1957-59; U.S. Representative, Illinois, 1962-69; Assistant to the President, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Director of the Cost of Living Council, 1969-74; U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1973-74; head of Presidential Transition Team, 1974; Assistant to the President, Director of White House Office of Operations, White House Chief of Staff, 1974-77; Secretary of Defense, 1975-77. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge: Raised in a working class family in veterans' public housing in Erie. He earned a scholarship to Harvard, graduating with honors in 1967. After his first year at The Dickinson School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star for Valor. After returning to Pennsylvania, he earned his Law Degree and was in private practice before becoming Assistant District Attorney in Erie County. He was elected to Congress in 1982. He was the first enlisted Vietnam combat veteran elected to the U.S. House, and was overwhelmingly re-elected six times. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice: Earned her Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her Master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. (Note: Rice enrolled at the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science - Cum Laude. She earned a Master's Degree at the University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate from the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies. Both of her advanced degrees are also in Political Science.) She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, and the University of Notre Dame in 1995. At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions. From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military. She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco. Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she resides in Washington, D.C. So who are these celebrities? What is their education? What is their experience in affairs of State or in National Security? While I will defend to the death their right to express their opinions, I think that if they are going to call into question the intelligence of our leaders, we should also have all the facts on their educations and background: Barbra Streisand : Completed high school Career: Singing and acting Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. Career: Singing and acting Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. Career: Acting Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year. Career: Acting Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal. Career: Acting Julia Roberts: Completed high school. Career: Acting Sean Penn: Completed High school. Career: Acting Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Career: Acting Ed Asner: Completed High school. Career: Acting George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky. Career: Acting Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of Michigan. Career: Movie Director Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School. Career: Acting Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School. Career: Acting Mike Farrell: Completed High school. Career: Acting Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College. Career: Stand up comedienne Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year. Career: Acting While comparing the education and experience of these two groups, we should also remember that President Bush and his cabinet are briefed daily, even hourly, on the War on Terror and threats to our security. They are privy to information gathered around the world concerning the Middle East, the threats to America, the intentions of terrorists and terrorist-supporting governments. They are in constant communication with the CIA, the FBI, Interpol, NATO, The United Nations, our own military, and that of our allies around the world. We cannot simply believe that we have full knowledge of the threats because we watch CNN!! We cannot believe that we are in any way as informed as our leaders. These celebrities have no intelligence-gathering agents, no fact-finding groups, no insight into the minds of those who would destroy our country. They only have a deep-seated hatred for all things Republican. By nature, and no one knows quite why, the Hollywood elitists detest Conservative views and anything that supports or uplifts the United States of America. The silence was deafening from the Left when Bill Clinton bombed a pharmaceutical factory outside of Khartoum, or when he attacked the Bosnian Serbs in 1995 and 1999. He bombed Serbia itself to get Slobodan Milosevic out of Kosovo, and not a single peace rally was held. When our Rangers were ambushed in Somalia and 18 young American lives were lost, not a peep was heard from Hollywood. Yet now, after our nation has been attacked on its own soil, after 3,000 Americans were killed, by freedom-hating terrorists, while going about their routine lives, they want to hold rallies against the war. Why the change? Because an honest, God-fearing Republican sits in the White House. Another irony is that in 1987, when Ronald Reagan was in office, the Hollywood group aligned themselves with disarmament groups like SANE, FREEZE and PEACE ACTION, urging our own government to disarm and freeze the manufacturing of any further nuclear weapons, in order to promote world peace. It is curious that now, even after we have heard all the evidence that Saddam Hussein has chemical, biological and is very close to obtaining nuclear weapons, there is no cry from this group for HIM to disarm. They believe we should leave him alone in his quest for these weapons of mass destruction, even though it is certain that these deadly weapons will eventually be used against us in our own cities. So why the hype out of Hollywood? Could these celebrities believe that since they draw such astronomical salaries, they are entitled to also determine the course of our Nation? That they can make viable decisions concerning war and peace? Did Michael Moore have the backing of the Nation when he recently thanked France, on our behalf, for being a "good enough friend to tell us we were wrong"? I know for certain he was not speaking for me. Does Sean Penn fancy himself a Diplomat, in going to Iraq when we are just weeks away from war? Does he believe that his High School Diploma gives him the knowledge (and the right) to go to a country that is controlled by a maniacal dictator, and speak on behalf of the American people? Or is it the fact that he pulls in more money per year than the average American worker will see in a lifetime? Does his bank account give him clout? The ultimate irony is that many of these celebrities have made a shambles of their own lives, with drug abuse, alcoholism, numerous marriages and divorces, scrapes with the law, publicized temper tantrums, etc. How dare they pretend to know what is best for an entire nation! What is even more bizarre is how many people in this country will listen and accept their views, simply because they liked them in a certain movie, or have fond memories of an old television sitcom! It is time for us, as citizens of the United States, to educate ourselves about the world around us. If future generations are going to enjoy the freedoms that our forefathers bequeathed us, if they are ever to know peace in their own country and their world, to live without fear of terrorism striking in their own cities, we must assure that this nation remains strong. We must make certain that those who would destroy us are made aware of the severe consequences that will befall them. Yes, it is a wonderful dream to sit down with dictators and terrorists and join hands, singing Cumbaya and talking of world peace. But it is not real. We did not stop Adolf Hitler from taking over the entire continent of Europe by simply talking to him. We sent our best and brightest, with the strength and determination that this Country is known for, and defeated the Nazi regime. President John F. Kennedy did not stop the Soviet ships from unloading their nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962 with mere words. He stopped them with action, and threat of immediate war if the ships did not turn around. We did not end the Cold War with conferences. It ended with the strong belief of President Ronald Reagan... PEACE through STRENGTH! - Friday, March 28, 2003 at 15:54:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Racial profiling. If the shoe fits. We all know they aren't Finns.
duh
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 15:37:32 (EST)

My two cents are: See, ""ko" is intentional, my typos are not. You are not funny. You are the enemy. Intentional socialism and promoting anti-American minority special interests over majority opinion is not democratic. You are a liar. Ok.
Pete�
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 15:36:14 (EST)

My two cents are: A nationwide FBI program to interview 11,000 Iraqi immigrants is winding down in the Bay Area, where many of those questioned found the bureau's agents poorly informed about Iraq, its history and its politics. some of the questions asked had people in the Middle Eastern community rolling their eyes and shaking their heads. "Do you know Osama bin Laden?" "What do you think of Saddam Hussein?" and "How did you feel about Sept. 11?" were a few of the queries, according to those interviewed. And while many found the agents to be polite, respectful and pleasant, there were those who saw the voluntary program as an invasion of privacy and an act of racial profiling. A 28-year-old college student, who has lived in the United States since he was 3, is believed to be the only person in the Bay Area who refused to talk to the agents. But others, such as Ghassan Hanna, of Union City, had no problem with it. He received his knock at the door at 10 a.m. last Friday while still in his pajamas. Two young agents flashed their badges, Hanna said. He was a bit surprised to see them, but he invited them into his home and offered them tea, which they politely declined. "They read questions off a three-page list," said the 45-year-old engineer. "To me they were uninformed clerks. They asked me how I felt about 9/11. I told them I was Chaldean. They asked me, 'What is that?' I told them I'm Christian. We've been dealing with Muslim extremists for centuries."
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 15:26:39 (EST)

My two cents are: ko
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 15:23:10 (EST)

My two cents are: E is an irritant. Anagrams do not lie. I apologize for my typos. It is why I am known as Sorry Pete. Next.
Pete�
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 15:19:40 (EST)

My two cents are: ebcause
Pete, how long have you had this problem?
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 15:14:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Cliton's alleged "surplus" was created by a Republican Congress who refused to let him raise taxes. It was also caused by the previous victories in the Cold and Gulf Wars. What the truth is, is that ebcause Cliton cut defense spending so drastically, we are now paying the price to re-tool. Cliton and his liberal lying cronies did nothing but run America to the brink of socialism and failure to self-defend. A traitor in anyone's book. Sick, perverted traitor. Defended by virtue-less agenda monger liberal demonrats: You. POW!
Pete�
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:58:51 (EST)

My two cents are: "The Canadian is a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refuses to be lumped with either of them, yet cannot make plain the difference."
Just call them what they are: liberal cowards
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:56:10 (EST)

My two cents are: At least Clinton was directly involved in drawing up miliatry stragegy. On the phone with congress while Monica, uh - er, well.......
...5ucked his c0©k???
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:49:30 (EST)

My two cents are: President Clinton announces another record budget surplus From CNN White House Correspondent Kelly Wallace September 27, 2000 Web posted at: 4:51 p.m. EDT (2051 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Clinton announced Wednesday that the federal budget surplus for fiscal year 2000 amounted to at least $230 billion, making it the largest in U.S. history and topping last year's record surplus of $122.7 billion. "Eight years ago, our future was at risk," Clinton said Wednesday morning. "Economic growth was low, unemployment was high, interest rates were high, the federal debt had quadrupled in the previous 12 years. When Vice President Gore and I took office, the budget deficit was $290 billion, and it was projected this year the budget deficit would be $455 billion." President Clinton announces that the federal budget surplus for fiscal year 2000 is the largest in U.S. history Instead, the president explained, the $5.7 trillion national debt has been reduced by $360 billion in the last three years -- $223 billion this year alone. This represents, Clinton said, "the largest one-year debt reduction in the history of the United States." "Like our Olympic athletes in Sydney, the American people are breaking all kinds of records these days. This is the first year we've balanced the budget without using the Medicare trust fund since Medicare was created in 1965. I think we should follow Al Gore's advice and lock those trust funds away for the future," he said. In June, the administration predicted the surplus would be $211 billion, and would increase by as much as $1 trillion over the next 10 years. "The key to fiscal discipline is maintaining these results year after year. We need to put our priorities in order," Clinton said. The president's news comes as lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to wrestle with the fiscal year 2001 budget numbers. The new budget year begins October 1, and work has been completed on only two of the 13 annual spending bills, as the Republican-led Congress and the White House remain at odds over spending allocations. "I am concerned, frankly, about the size and last-minute nature of this year's congressional spending spree, where they seem to be loading up the spending bills with special projects for special interests, but can't seem to find the time to raise the minimum wage, or pass a patients' bill of rights, or drug benefits for our seniors through Medicare, or tax cuts for long-term care, child care, or college education," Clinton said. "These are the things that need to be done and I certainly hope they will be and still make the right investments and the right amount of tax cuts," Clinton said. Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Oklahoma, chairman of the House Republican Conference, said the GOP wants 90 percent of the surplus used for the debt. In a CNN interview, he said the other 10 percent should be used to "take care of a lot of priorities we have, like prescription drugs, making sure that our education needs are met, making sure some of our national security needs are met, and doing that while at the same time protecting the Social Security surplus and the Medicare surplus." That approach would be in lieu of tax cuts, which "we can't do this year because the president vetoed it," Watts said. Clinton unveiled the new numbers in a statement at the White House before departing for fund-raising events in Dallas and Houston. "This is part of our fiscal discipline to reduce the debt with the federal surplus," said one White House official who asked not to be identified. Reducing the debt, the official said, has "real effects for real Americans." It means lower interest rates for mortgages, car loans and college loans, and leads to an increase in investment and more jobs." It is the third year in a row the federal government has taken in more than it spent, and has paid down the debt. The last time the U.S. government had a third consecutive year of national debt reduction was 1949, said the official. The federal budget surplus for fiscal year 1999 was $122.7 billion, and $69.2 billion for fiscal year 1998. Those back-to-back surpluses, the first since 1957, allowed the Treasury to pay down $138 billion in national debt.
Remember peace and prosperity? It came before Bush's war and poverty.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:45:21 (EST)

My two cents are: My two cents are: Leave it to the socialsits to corrupt our legal tender. Traitors.
Pete finally realizes that anything with Snippy's face must be corrupt.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:32:03 (EST)

My two cents are: The anti-war protesters are marching to protest the war, assholes. DUH. It's ironic--and even Saddamic--that the bushist morons are trying to suppress this dissent. How un-American of them. Well, what can one expect from morons?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:31:37 (EST)

My two cents are: IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER�As the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division began its ground assault on Iraq Monday, President Bush marched alongside the front-line soldiers, bravely putting his own life on the line for his country by personally participating in the attack. Above: A weary Bush marches through enemy territory near the Iraq-Kuwait border. "Bush is the real deal, and when he talks about fighting for freedom, he means it," said Pvt. Tom Scharpling, 21. "He'd never ask one of us grunts to take any risks for our country that he wasn't willing to take himself." According to reports from the front, many of the soldiers were initially suspicious of the president, doubtful that an Ivy Leaguer who once used powerful family connections to avoid service in Vietnam had what it took to face enemy fire head-on. However, Bush�or, as his fellow soldiers nicknamed him in a spirit of battlefield camaraderie, 'Big Tex'�quickly overcame the platoon's reluctance to having a "fancy-pants Yalie" in its ranks. "Bush is the best soldier I've ever had the honor of fighting alongside," said Pvt. Jon Benjamin, 23. "I'd take a bullet for that man, because I know he'd take one for me if he had to." Proving himself a worthy foot soldier, Bush has earned the respect of his fellow front-line combatants with acts of courage and heroism that one soldier called "a truly inspiring example of one man's commitment to the cause of liberty." "Just yesterday, George stormed an Iraqi machine-gun nest when our sergeant took one in the belly," Pvt. Scott "Lumpy" Fellers, 20, told reporters. "We were pinned down, cut off from our division, and it looked like curtains for us all. Thankfully, George was there. He ran through heavy artillery fire and lobbed a grenade right into their bunker. If it hadn't been for him, God knows how many of us would've been coming home in body bags." "It's not just any president who would risk his life like the nation's men in uniform do," Fellers added. "God bless him and everything he stands for." Bush's courage, sources say, was evident from the earliest stages of the war's planning. Though the Pentagon initially wanted an air war with minimal ground combat, Bush quickly dismissed this strategy, insisting that the only way a true and lasting victory could be achieved was to go in and fight�dune by dune, village by village�until Iraq was finally free. White House sources say Bush's decision to place his own life on the line for his country met with resistance from top military leaders. "The Joint Chiefs of Staff kept telling him, 'Mr. President, we beg you�stay here in Washington, where it's safe.' But George was having none of it," said Maj. Gen. Buford Blount, commander of the 3rd Infantry. "He was adamant that if our boys overseas were going to risk their lives for liberty, he was going to do the same. And, by God, he proved himself a man of his word." The president has only been in battle for less than a week, but he has already proven himself more than willing to put himself in the line of fire. "The president carried me through an enemy minefield after my arm had been blown off by a mortar shell, blazing away with his pistol as he delivered me to safety," Pvt. Chris Adair said. "Then, after he'd gotten me to a medic, he went all the way back through that same minefield�carrying a 40-pound bag of ice the whole way�to retrieve my severed arm so the doctors could sew it back on. Now, thanks to President Bush, I'll still be able to play piano for the church choir back home in Appleton, just like I promised Grandma. He is truly an American hero." Adair's comments were echoed by many of the soldiers fighting alongside Bush. "I used to be cynical about politicians who are born into privilege and wealth. I thought, 'Sure, they talk a good game about our duty to protect democracy, but when push comes to shove, they'd rather send off the nation's poor, uneducated, and underprivileged to do the fighting for them,'" said Pvt. Frank Elkins, 19. "I always figured they'd rather see somebody else die in some foreign land than make that sacrifice themselves. But now I know I was wrong." "There may be some folks out there, born silver spoon in hand, who'd act that way, but that ain't Bush. No, that ain't Bush," Elkins said. "He ain't no fortunate son."
SHOCK AND AWE--BUSH LEADS 3RD INFANTRY INTO BATTLE!
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:29:21 (EST)

My two cents are: "Anyone with half a brain must see that Saddam has to be taken out. It is extraordinarily ironic that the anti-war protesters are marching to defend a government which stops people from exercising that freedom."
"half a brain" is giving liebral socialsits way too much credit
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:26:34 (EST)

My two cents are:

In a dispatch from Amman, Jordan, distributed by UPI and published in the Washington Times on March 23, veteran foreign correspondent Arnaud de Borchgrave reported that a group of Americans who had joined a delegation of Japanese "human shields" in Iraq had changed their minds and fled the country with 14 hours of videotaped interviews with Iraqis who hoped the Coalition forces would be their liberators. The spokesman for the group, the Rev. Kenneth Joseph, a pastor of the Assyrian Church of the East, an ancient Christian church that has a substantial membership in the United States, told de Borchgrave that his trip to Iraq "had shocked me back to reality." He said that his talks with Iraqis convinced him that Saddam is "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 [the torture masters] could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head." He told de Borchgrave that some of the Iraqis he had interviewed on camera told him they would commit suicide if the American bombing didn�t start and that they were willing to see their homes destroyed if it would free them from Saddam�s bloody tyranny. The Rev. Joseph and his group were not the only would-be human shields who changed their minds after hearing what Iraqi civilians had to say about Saddam. Daniel Pepper, a 23-year-old Jewish American living in London who had traveled in the Middle East as a student and a photographer for Newsweek, went to Iraq on Jan. 25 with a group that intended to serve as human shields to call attention to the anti-war movement. He wrote about his experience in the London Telegraph on March 23. He said, "The human shields appealed to my anti-war stance, but by the time I had left Baghdad five weeks later my views had changed drastically. I wouldn�t say that I was exactly pro-war. No, I am ambivalent, but I have a strong desire to see Saddam removed. I was shocked when I first met a pro-war Iraqi in Baghdad � a taxi driver taking me back to my hotel late at night. I explained that I was American and said, as we shields always did, �Bush bad, war bad, Iraq good.� He looked at me with an expression of incredulity. "He slowed down and started to speak in broken English about the evils of Saddam�s regime. Until then I had only heard the president spoken of with respect, but now this guy was telling me how all of Iraq�s oil money went into Saddam�s pocket and that if you opposed him politically he would kill your whole family. It scared the hell out of me. ... 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 became increasingly concerned about the way the Iraqi regime was restricting the movement of the shields, so a few days later I left Baghdad for Jordan by taxi with five others." Safely over the border, they asked the driver "what he felt about the regime and the threat of an aerial bombardment." He surprised them, saying: "The Americans don�t want to bomb civilians. They want to bomb the government and Saddam�s palaces. We want America to bomb Saddam. All Iraqi people want this war." He was convinced that Saddam had paid them to come to Iraq. Pepper concluded his article saying, "Anyone with half a brain must see that Saddam has to be taken out. It is extraordinarily ironic that the anti-war protesters are marching to defend a government which stops people from exercising that freedom." - Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:26:01 (EST)

My two cents are: http://defendamerica.mil/nmam_thanks.html
Interesting web site - worth the moment to check it out
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:22:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Leave it to the socialsits to corrupt our legal tender. Traitors.
Pete�
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:14:44 (EST)

My two cents are:

Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 14:05:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Bernie's

Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 13:59:55 (EST)

My two cents are: March 28 -- The US military has been forced to admit the 8,000 Iraqi soldiers they claimed to have captured last week are now battling British forces. Iraq's 51st Infantry Division, which has about 200 tanks, is now engaged in the southern city of Basra. The Pentagon is claiming the confusion is the work of the Fedayeen Saddam - Saddam Hussein's most trusted paramilitary unit. The US is accusing it of organising the tactic of posing as civilians and faking surrenders. Defence Department officials reported on Friday that they had won the surrender of the entire 51st Division, a regular Iraqi army unit deployed in southern Iraq to defend Basra, the nation's second largest city. On Saturday, officials backtracked, saying they had only taken a couple of commanders and the rest of the men had "melted away" - a term used for those who laid down their arms and returned home. On Monday there were reports that one of the "commanders" turned out to be a junior official who misrepresented his rank in hopes of getting better treatment. Then on Tuesday, British forces reported a tank battle with elements of the 51st outside of Basra. Asked about the confusion, the Pentagon said the division's equipment was taken over by the Fedayeen and possibly members of Saddam's Republican Guard, his best-trained troops. "Some of their equipment may have been used by the Fedayeen perhaps, or other folks that Fedayeen brought with them," a Pentagon spokesman said.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 13:42:47 (EST)

My two cents are: The important polls show Approval of the war at 78% versus 18%, but treasonous socailsit demonrat stations like CNN msut overemphasize the stupid minority for their own agenda. Time to snuff out the naysaying traitors. Let's roll.
Pete�
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 13:23:46 (EST)

My two cents are: You mean he's that high even without the BJ boost? Guess he hasn't played all his card yet unlike his predecessor who had to shoot his whole wad to break 60%.
Captain Cookbook
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 13:22:52 (EST)

My two cents are: "American Public Opinion About Iraq" Friday, March 28, 2003 - Bush's overall job approval rating is at 69%, little changed from the weekend after the war began. The current rating is 11 points higher than the pre-war rating measured on March 14-15.
how's this for some HIGH PIE?
Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 13:17:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Latest from Gallup. (Sorry, this was not available in High Pie form.)
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 13:08:19 (EST)

My two cents are:

I am still supporting our troops. I haven't watched "Children of Dune" on the Sci Fi Channel. (01) - Friday, March 28, 2003 at 12:46:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Why would a "charitable organization" give to a Hollywood actress? Just think of all the cheeze balls that money could buy!
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 12:34:17 (EST)

My two cents are: "Charity Cancels Event" TAMPA - United Way of Tampa Bay has canceled an event with actress and peace advocate Susan Sarandon. Sarandon, whose antiwar views have drawn increased attention recently, was scheduled to speak in Tampa next month at a $75-a-plate banquet organized by the United Way Women's Leadership program. It was part of an all-day training session for women interested in leading nonprofit and charitable organizations. Invitations were sent to at least 500 people about two weeks ago. But responses from members, donors and others in the community followed in the form of angry letters, e-mail and telephone calls - prompting organizers to cancel the event this week. The Women's Leadership group chose Sarandon as guest speaker in August because of her well-publicized generosity and her local connections. A brother works for the St. Petersburg Times, and Carson said the newspaper's charitable foundation planned to pay Sarandon's $20,000 fee.
What a compassionate person: Sarandon only chares $20k for charity work!
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 12:32:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..

Support President Bush and Our Troops In Iraq! - Friday, March 28, 2003 at 12:15:14 (EST)

My two cents are: From the private collection: A protest well worth while.

Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 12:08:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Only reason Perle resigned is he's going to be governor of Iraq.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 11:07:50 (EST)

My two cents are: "Al-Qaida may use anti-war rallies as cover" WASHINGTON � Al-Qaida operatives may mix in with anti-war demonstrators here and in other major cities to secretly monitor security procedures around landmarks and buildings, the FBI warns. According to an FBI bulletin, al-Qaida terrorists plotting U.S. attacks may employ "sophisticated surveillance techniques" to avoid detection by law enforcement. These techniques may include using "video recorders" and posing as "demonstrators" to gather information about security patterns and procedures at potential terrorist targets, says the bulletin, recently distributed to law enforcement and military security personnel by the FBI Washington Field Office as part of the Awareness of National Security Issues and Response, or ANSIR, program. "Al-Qaida operations have been characterized by meticulous planning, a focus on inflicting mass casualties, and multiple, simultaneous suicide attacks," the FBI alert says. "Operatives are highly trained in basic and sophisticated surveillance techniques, posing challenges for counterterrorism and security forces in identifying terrorist surveillance."
one of you! one of you!
hope they videotape the demonstrators and use facial recognition software to create catalogs for various departments of homeland security, - Friday, March 28, 2003 at 11:02:14 (EST)

My two cents are: "Clinton urges all Americans to unite" IOWA CITY, Iowa, Mar 27, 2003 (The Daily Iowan, U-WIRE via COMTEX) -- Former President Clinton urged the public Wednesday night to set aside personal views and pull and pray for American troops fighting in Iraq. Clinton said he supports disarming Saddam Hussein and that he was in favor of the U.N. resolution that threatened forcible regime change if Saddam failed to comply, as well as the House and Senate resolutions authorizing President Bush to use force.
wondered where willard's been hanging out - looks like the corn belt
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 10:52:53 (EST)

My two cents are: "Report: Al-Qaida fighting alongside Saddam's forces [British interrogators say POWs reveal members of bin Laden's group in Basra] Captured Iraqi soldiers have told British military interrogators that members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network are fighting alongside Saddam Hussein's forces against U.S. and British troops near Basra. Specifically, the Iraqi POWs claim that about a dozen al-Qaida members are in the town of Az Zubayr, coordinating grenade and other attacks on coalition positions, according to a Scotsman report carried in several papers, including London's Financial Times. "The information we have received from POWs today is that an al-Qaida cell may be operating in Az Zubayr," a senior British military source inside Iraq said in the report. "There are possibly around a dozen of them and that is obviously a matter of concern to us." The implications of al-Qaida terrorists fighting with Iraqis against coalition forces, if confirmed, go far beyond tactical battlefield considerations. Many individuals and nations that refused to support the invasion of Iraq cited a lack of evidence that the regime of Saddam Hussein, brutal as it is, supports al-Qaida, the terror organization blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks on America that killed almost 3,000 people. Though many hold out for "smoking gun" proof of direct Iraqi complicity in 9-11, others feel a "smoking Boeing 707 fuselage" is sufficient proof of Saddam's support for international terrorism. It's been widely reported that Hussein provided terrorists a Boeing 707 fuselage in which to practice airline hijackings. Indeed, commercial satellite photos show the fuselage at the notorious terrorist training camp near a bend in the Tigris.
who believes attacking iraq isn't part of the war on terror?
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 10:45:03 (EST)

My two cents are: March 28 � Iraqi paramilitary forces in Basra fired mortars and machine guns Friday on Iraqi civilians trying to flee the city, British military officials said. Members of Britain�s 7th Armored Brigade were trying to neutralize the fire, evacuate the civilians and treat the wounded, said Lt. Col. Ronnie McCourt, a spokesman for British forces in the Persian Gulf. A �COUPLE of thousand� Iraqi civilians had tried to break out from the north and west of the besieged city but came under fire from Iraqi paramilitary forces inside, McCourt said. �We are trying to save the people, return fire and rescue civilians,� he said.
stuff the peaceniks don't understand
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 10:28:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Perle's resigned again? This is about the eighth time a Perle resignation has been reported on this page in the past week. How many jobs does this guy have?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 10:11:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Richard Perle Resigns as Chairman of Defense Policy Board, But Remains a Member of the Radical "Army of Conquest" Bush Brigade. The Entire Bush Cartel Should Resign and Be Indicted Under the RICO Act. Friday, March 28, 2003 Support BuzzFlash Herr Rumsfeld Says He Will Lay Siege to Baghdad. It Gets More Horrifying Everyday. We Have Madmen in Charge of the U.S. Government.
War Criminals in the White House
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 09:52:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Who bombed Afghanistan first? The big dog. (who still gets more than jismheads do. don't it hurt?)
what are clinton's re-re-elect numbers?
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 09:49:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Take Bush's little war, for instance. Bush uses a volunteer army, filled -- in part -- with many young men and women who couldn't find decent paying jobs because of the shambles our Bush economy is in, to destroy a nation's infrastructure. The Bush Cartel conducts a secret contracting process, including a large no-bid contract for Dick Cheney's Halliburton, that dispenses million and billion dollar fees to Bush/GOP campaign contributors. The more of Iraq that is destroyed, the larger the contracts dispensed to corporate sponsors of the Bush royal dynasty. The larger the fees paid, the more that returns in the form of contributions to Bush and the GOP. It's a grand scam, ain't it? It's too bad our young men and women -- and thousands of Iraqis -- have to die in the process. But everything has its costs, right?
DEATH IS REAL --- STOP SNIPPY'S OIL WAR
- Friday, March 28, 2003 at 09:46:49 (EST)

My two cents are: I watch the Fox News Channel, because they're unbiased and support the war 100 percent.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 23:50:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Cathy Breen, a 54-year-old nurse from New York City who's been in Baghdad for five months, described yesterday what she saw during a visit to the city's Yermuke Hospital: A 2-year-old killed when a rocket shattered her house; an 8-year-old, his head and abdomen wrapped in gauze, who lost three family members, including his father; a 10-year-old with multiple broken bones who waited a day to be brought to hospital. "It's the most tragic thing I have ever seen," she said.
collateral damage
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 23:17:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Richard Perle, head of board that advises U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, resigns. Rumsfeld to sue Seymoure Hersh: "Well it's not MY fault. Dickie had his feelings hurt and he's taking it out me and President Cheney."
Developing ...
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 19:09:57 (EST)

My two cents are:

SARS may have a silver lining. Reduing the number of AIDS cases, thereby cutting outrageous montetary resources used in fighting the symptoms and prolonging the inevitable. - Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 18:36:54 (EST)

My two cents are:

It is very interesting when you see just how little the Democrats took terrorism seriously. The first President that I remember talking about terrorism as a threat to our nation was Ronald Reagan. He saw the threat and I believe he saw the possibility of terrorists taking advantage of our freedoms to strike right here in our own country. Reagan had dealings in the Middle East and not all of them were what you would call in the best interests of our country. But if there is one thing I will give Reagan, if there was an immediate threat to our nation, he wouldn�t have hesitated to destroy that threat. I don�t think I can say the same thing for our most recent democratic President. Here is a man that was offered Osama Bin Laden by Sudan. Sudan offered to turn him over to the United States for some amount of money I am sure. Clinton turned down that offer. His excuse was that he didn�t have anything he could have charged him with. Well to me that excuse is a poor one. Clinton knew the threat he posed to our nation; he knew that Bin Laden had the desire to strike on American soil. The problem was I don�t think Clinton took Bin Laden seriously. If he had he would have taken Sudan�s offer and would have found something to charge him with. Anyone telling me that the US gov�t couldn�t come up with some kind of charge against a terrorist that wanted to harm our nation is out of their mind. But this is not even the most interesting part. During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, there was an interesting exchange of words between Oliver North and then senator Al Gore. Al Gore was questioning North on his recent purchase of a $60,000 security system for his house. If you watch the tape it appears that Gore was more interested in getting chuckles from the audience then asking questions. He asked North if he felt that purchase was a little excessive, to which North replied No! North said that the reason he had such an expensive security system is because a terrorist threatened his and his family�s lives. Gore asked North what terrorist could scare North (a marine officer) that much. North�s reply was Osama Bin Laden. Gore at the time could not pronounce the name, and then asked North what should be done. North�s reply was that the United States make every effort to assassinate him. Of course Gore disagreed and made it seem as if Oliver North was just paranoid. Looks like Ollie had good reason to be paranoid. In 1986 another familiar name blew up a bus in Israel and was captured, tried, and jailed. His name was Mohammed Atta. Now the interesting part of this story is that in 1993 the Israelis and Palestinians signed the Oslo agreement. Under that agreement Israel had to release any political prisoners they were holding. Israel agreed but would not release Atta or other criminals with blood on their hands because of their actual crimes. It was then that Clinton stepped in with his Secretary of State and demanded that Israel let them go. So Atta was freed and everyone knows that he was so thankful he helped kill 3,000 Americans on 9-11. What is also interesting to me is how Clinton handled terrorist acts during his terms in office. I received an e-mail the other day that pointed this out to me. So I looked up Clinton�s public addresses after the attacks and what I found was true and interesting. Before I get into it I should point out that after 9-11 Clinton made it a point to go on talk shows and tell people just how badly he wanted to get Bin Laden. Well from these speeches one has to question just how bad. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed and six Americans died. Clinton told America that those responsible would be found and punished. In 1995 there was a terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed five U.S. Armed Forces Personnel. Again Clinton told America that he would find those responsible and bring them to justice. One year later there was another terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 U.S. military personnel, and once again Clinton promised to bring those responsible to justice. Then in 1998 there was the terrorist attack on the U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 people, and Clinton again promised to bring those responsible to justice. Then in 2000 there was the terrorist attack on the USS Cole and 17 U.S. sailors died, and yet again Clinton promised to bring those responsible to justice. During that time 271 people were killed and thousands were injured. Clinton�s only response was to launch cruise missiles at an empty tent. Today we have a President who took the fight to the terrorists. He stepped up and is doing in one term what Clinton could not accomplish in two. I have my things about Bush that I do not like, but at least he is willing to stand up to terror, and even defy the UN when they are too chicken to back up their own resolutions. The e-mail I received said this at the end: �Maybe if Clinton had kept his promise, an estimated 3,000 people in New York and Washington, D.C. that are now dead would be alive today�. I couldn�t have said it better myself. So now I guess if you would have to say one party is responsible I would say the democrats have much to answer for. No more do I think it is even blame for both parties. I give this one to the Republicans, as it appears that when they tell you they are going to bring those responsible to justice, unlike the Democrats, they do it! - Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 17:06:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Which should take the lead in administering a post-war Iraq? /// The U.S.: 50%; 48400 votes; /// or The U.N.: 50%; 48893 votes /// Total: 97293 votes
Razor thin even for a socialsit site like Cliton news Network
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 16:41:29 (EST)

My two cents are: The Dixie Chicks have tattoos of chicken feet on their ankles.
No wonder their politics are liberally screwed up.
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 16:04:06 (EST)

My two cents are:

The truth from STRATFOR: "The initial assault by the coalition was completed about two days ago. We are currently in a consolidation phase that will be marked by relatively few significant operations in the south. You will be seeing the following activities: 1: Re-supply 2: Attacks on pockets of resistance 3: Redeployment of forces 4: Active reconnaissance, particularly on the part of the Iraqis, who lack air recon ability. Units will be showing up in different places than you last tracked them. You will hear about fighting in places you thought were pacified days ago. You will hear about supply problems, because these will be filtering back to HQ and will be in the process of being solved. You will possibly be hearing about supply units getting lost and killed in mine fields or in encounters with stray Iraqis. Also, you will be seeing "counterattacks" by Iraqi armored scout vehicles that are out there looking to map U.S. positions. Expect also exfiltration by Iraqis in isolated pockets moving east and north in an attempt to escape and rejoin main Iraqi forces. This process will result in encounter engagements, that will include short, sharp firefights and occasional deployments of helicopters and AFVs depending on size and location. These should not be mistaken for major battles. The major question in the south is what the final deployment of the British units will be. Most of them are in pretty good shape, having seen relatively limited high-intensity fighting and having moved relatively little. They have also been in pretty good supply. There is more than a division of Brits down there -- wherever they go will represent a major axis of effort in the future. There is some evidence of probes under way toward Al Kut or northwest toward the main line of resistance. This is tactical probing of the lines. No major assaults will be carried out until greater force is bought to bear. The Marines will need to have additional armor before assaulting Al Kut, for example. This may be where the Brits go when they finish in the Basra area. One issue will be air strikes. The weather is clear. If there are no massive strikes in the Karbala-Al Hillah-Al Kut area, this will indicate either that there are no major forces in the region, or that there are and no major assault is planned. Watch the air strikes and watch the mix between tac-air and strat-air. The action in the north is in its very early stages. We will likely see a heavy airlift consisting of C-17s and C-130s bringing in troops. The question to look for: Are they bringing in equipment or supplies, or are those on the ground already? No major operations can be expected in that region for several days. Try to figure out what the mission is up there. At this point, the 173rd is providing security for the air fields. Where the follow-on troops go will be the key. REPORT ANY INFORMATION OF ACTIVITY, REGARDLESS OF HOW SLIGHT, FROM THE DESERT WEST OF THE EUPHRATES BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH OF BAGHDAD, EXCLUDING THE IMMEDIATE AREA OF THE EUPHRATES FROM KARBALA TO KUWAIT. WATCH THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN DESERTS CAREFULLY. - Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 15:50:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Ahh, the pot smoker's paranoia comes out. Yeah, plant the evidence. dopes
whatever!
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 15:23:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Best to bring your own, just to be on the safe side.
Norman Pilcher
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 15:07:59 (EST)

My two cents are: DJ No Chemical Weapons Found At Site In Najaf - TV 03/24/2003 Dow Jones News Services (Copyright � 2003 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--U.S. officials said Monday that no chemical weapons were found at a suspected site at Najaf in central Iraq, U.S. television networks reported. NBC News reported from the Pentagon that no chemicals at all were found at the site. CNN, also reporting from the Pentagon, said officials now believe the plant there was abandoned long ago by the Iraqis. (END) Dow Jones Newswires
let's plant some WMD's so we can annex Iraq! Blood for oil! Blood for oil!
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 15:05:32 (EST)

My two cents are: 1. The Horserace Syndrome & Highlighting Tactics Over Political Analysis: "Endlessly repeated news features with titles like 'Showdown with Saddam' present a grave matter as though it were a high-stakes sports contest," the letter says. It goes on to highlight major news stories the media has failed to cover adequately as they obsess over military tactics. 2. Failing to Protest Government Control of Information: The government has frozen out the media and carefully controlled their access to information. Newspapers and TV news have underreported this freeze out, and failed to contest it aggressively. 3. Failing to Maintain an Arms-Length Relationship with Government: "State-controlled media comes in many garbs," warns the letter, noting the overreliance of TV news in particular on government-approved retired military and intelligence consultants. 4. Failing to Question the Official Story: "The media should never confuse patriotism with obeisance and a rubber-stamp mentality," the letter states. 5. Failing to Present a Diversity of Viewpoints: "There is a duty to seek out and quote the many experts who express skepticism about claims by the state, rather than simply to rely on the same pundits repeatedly," the letter states. It calls as well on "editors, publishers and producers to see that their op-ed pages, letters-to-the-editor sections and talk shows are open to a vigorous diversity of viewpoints." 6. Radio: "Years ago, radio actually acknowledged the concept of orderly debates with widely varying viewpoints," the letter states. "It should do so again."
RIGHTWING MEDIA LIES ON AND ON
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 15:01:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Time after time, the liebrals have distorted the wars we've started.
Capt. Crunch
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 14:54:50 (EST)

My two cents are: s established at 13:25 below, we beat this mutherfuckin liar liberal Gore to the punch and prevented him and his sickness troupe of liebral traitors from lying and distorting the war. - Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 14:41:45 (EST)
Or even starting it, for that matter
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 14:53:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Business spending and growth would be much more affected if they were restricted by the lies of failed socialist tax increases. Look at France. That is what the treasonous demonrats want America to become. Fight these mutherfuckin liars. They are the enemy within.

- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 14:44:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Former Vice President Al Gore criticized the media and the current administration's war on Iraq and suggested an "unhealthy relationship" between the two at Tuesday's Seigenthaler Lecture. "I admire these journalists who are covering this war who are embedded, but I don't want the owners of the companies they work for to be in bed with the government," Gore said. Citing the continued deregulation of the media industry as a major problem, Gore held the media responsible for the role it played in the months leading up to the war. "The relative intolerance of dissent on the part of the media in America led to a completely inadequate debate prior to the beginning of this war," Gore said.
As established at 13:25 below, we beat this mutherfuckin liar liberal Gore to the punch and prevented him and his sickness troupe of liebral traitors from lying and distorting the war. <The Enemy is called Democrat.>
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 14:41:45 (EST)

My two cents are: NEW YORK - U.S. stocks tumbled at midday Thursday amid worries about the impact a prolonged war in Iraq could have on business spending and growth, the labor market and the U.S. economy.
I just hate these Wall Street Journal polls
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 14:27:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Two cases of SARS have hit San Francisco. One is at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and the other is at Kaiser in San Francisco. There are some who are voicing concern in San Francisco because many of its residents have weakened immune systems due to various diseases (uh, gays with AIDs?). At this time, there is not a cure, a shot, a magic bullet, or a cocktail. Your body has to fight it off.
GOD <Gee, what a shame. Does Morality Exists for a Reason?>
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 14:04:11 (EST)

My two cents are: The enemy is within the liberal elements of the demonrat party. Their mousepieces are the treasonous negative agenda monger reporters. Even if they could, they have no mental ability to be anything but biased. Don't forget when this is over, the war within the war is still over the liberals' efforts to alter America to look more like France. Public Enemy #1 is and always will be the liberals and their lies.
Pete�
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 13:56:27 (EST)

My two cents are: WAUSAU, Wis. -- A man upset that a war protester was parading around downtown Wausau with a defaced American flag is facing a disorderly conduct charge after attacking the demonstrator. The incident happened Monday afternoon outside the Marathon County Courthouse. Mike Wallschlaeger of Mosine carried an upside down flag with "EMPIRE" written across it. A fellow demonstrator says a man got out of his car, tried to grab the flag, then pushed Wallschlaeger to the ground, punched and kicked him.
True Patriotism Reacts to Treason
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 13:53:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Not bad. It would be nice if topozone.com covered Iraq.
Glint
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 13:50:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, here is a pretty decent map of Iraq.
Pete�
Iraq Map - Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 13:40:44 (EST)

My two cents are: So who's behind the strategy of "embedding" reporters inside U.S. and British combat units? Bush administration insiders say it's the brainchild of Victoria "Torrie" Clarke, a former press secretary for Senator John McCain. Clarke, now the Pentagon's Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, hatched the idea last fall. Her goal: to win the spin war. As Al Gore might say [i.e. distort], it was a "risky scheme" -- letting journalists report live from the front lines. But by early winter, she had persuaded her boss, Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld, who then made a detailed case to the National Security Council in a 10-page memo drafted by Clarke and obtained by WORLD magazine. "We need to tell the factual story -- good and bad -- before others seed the media with disinformation and distortions, as they most certainly will continue to do," Rumsfeld and Clarke wrote. "Our people in the field need to tell our story. Only commanders can ensure the media get to the story alongside the troops. We must organize for and facilitate access of national and international media to our forces, including those forces engaged in ground operations....To accomplish this, we will embed media with our units. These embedded media will live, work and travel as part of the units...to facilitate maximum, in-depth coverage."
how to fight the war within the war against the lying liberal press
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 13:25:14 (EST)

My two cents are: A mural found in Nasariyah. Was there ever any doubt?

Take that Liberal scum!

- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 13:14:25 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm with Pete. The feel goodism of Liberal thought is what has brought danger to our doorstep. Sitting on the mountain humming Kumbaya doesn't keep us safe. Close your eyes, Mary. Let our defenders complete their work. Then you can open your eyes and resume humming in the newly safety they have paid the rent for.
Glint
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 13:13:16 (EST)

My two cents are: ANNAPOLIS � A medical marijuana bill that would minimize penalties for chronically ill patients caught using the illegal drug has made it to the governor for the first time in four attempts. The Maryland Senate passed a medical marijuana bill Wednesday, exactly a week after the House approved an identical bill, and now, the only hurdle left is for Gov. Robert Ehrlich to sign it into law.
perhaps this would lure the pincher to leave the mobile terminal
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 13:06:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, it is a new world order now that we ahve to deal with terrorists bent on annihilating our own innocent citizens. Sorry, but liberalism, as a foreign policy (if it ever could be called one) is a completely doomed venture. One must be as ruthless or worse in the coming age of the ability of terrorists to be anywhere and have anything. Time for the liebrals to just shut their eyes. Leave the real thinking and defense to those who have at least one clue.
Pete�
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 13:05:49 (EST)

My two cents are: So the Paki violated his visa requirements and was caught on it. Sounds like someone was finally doing their job.
Glint
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 12:59:49 (EST)

My two cents are: The first arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, just over a week ago. U.S. officials would not call them prisoners of war, only "unlawful combatants," a definition which has everything to do with how they have been treated and how much of the international community has objected to that treatment ever since. The Pentagon released photographs last week, which showed the handcuffed prisoners kneeling on the ground, wearing masks.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 12:33:20 (EST)

My two cents are: The essence of Mary's ego is stating so knowingly that God loves her. Must be ATT-Collect or something. Amazing how the big picturer escapes these delusional socialist agenda-mongers. Fortunatley, the world and the country ahs changed. The cycle of suicidal liberalism is done. Back to reality.
Pete�
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 12:33:18 (EST)

My two cents are: "To date we have arrested, or otherwise dealt with, many key commanders of al-Qaida. ... All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 12:27:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Foolish President Brags About Assassination. WASHINGTON -- In one of the capital's many morning-after talkfests, Pietro Nivola, the Brookings Institution's senior fellow in governmental affairs, said he had never seen such a profound change in the mood of presidency and people as he, and the rest of us, have experienced between President Bush first and second State of the Union addresses. He repeated the sober line that impressed him most, quoting Bush: "We have gone from small matters to great causes." A great line. But there are always small matters hidden in the secrecy that attends great matters of national security. This is a dangerous time in American history, and not just because of evil done by Saddam Hussein and other haters of the whole idea of America. Making war on Iraq has obviously become the president's first priority, but that is a relatively small and rather straightforward priority compared with the snares of the secret war against terrorism at home and abroad. The hidden war, a bit of it, had come home to Brookings, here on Massachusetts Avenue, only the day before, the day of Bush's address to the nation. A prominent Pakistani editor and scholar, Ejaz Haider, was stopped by two armed men in plainclothes as he walked into the Brookings building for a conference on immigration law and law enforcement. The men identified themselves as agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and took Haider away to jail in Virginia. "We were stunned," said Stephen Cohen, the director of Brookings' South Asia program, which employed Haider. "I never thought I'd see this in my own country: people grabbed on the street and taken away. If he hadn't come into the building to show the agents some notes, it is not clear we would have known where he was." Haider, who may have been in violation of an INS regulation requiring visitors to contact the service if they stay in the United States for more than 30 days, is a very lucky man. Among other things, he happens to be a personal friend of Pakistan's foreign minister, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, who happened to be meeting with Attorney General John Ashcroft that same day. Kasuri demanded to know where Haider was and why he had been picked up. The scholar was released. Kasuri said later: "If that is the sort of person that can be nabbed, then no one is safe." Yes. Haider could have disappeared in the American prisons and prison camps that are hidden in the small print of the great war against terrorism. Or he could have been executed without trial or mention. Oh, you don't think that happens here? Americans don't do such things? If so, then you were not watching and listening carefully to the president last Tuesday night. I literally leaped out of my seat when Bush said this: "To date we have arrested, or otherwise dealt with, many key commanders of al-Qaida. ... All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way, they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies." In other words, Americans are out there murdering "suspected" terrorists. And the president smirked and almost wink-winked with pleasure. He was bragging about American assassinations. I wrote a book once about a president who was assassinated, John F. Kennedy. I am often asked if I have a theory about his murder. And I do. In those days, the U.S. government, at the highest level, was in the assassination business. Fidel Castro was the most obvious target, but there were others. Sudden political murder was in the air. In that environment, Lee Harvey Oswald was among those, including an organization called Fair Play for Cuba, who were frantically talking of American plots. However it began, it ended when our president was the one gunned down. And when you think of it, the president of a free country is at much more risk than dictators in police states. There is also the question of superpower. When you have the weapons and capabilities that the United States has, it is stupid to reduce war and threat to one man with a rifle. Assassination is the weapon of the weak; it is a very dangerous business and ultimately a foolish one for the free and the strong.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 12:24:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Long gone are the days when you could invade a country and not have to worry about such things.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 12:22:47 (EST)

My two cents are: "Top U.S. official: Iraq has executed some POWs" WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iraq has executed some prisoners of war in what the Pentagon's No. 2 general described Wednesday as one of many "disgusting" war crimes committed by forces loyal to Saddam Hussein. "They have executed prisoners of war," said Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live." Pace did not elaborate. Earlier in the day, Pentagon sources told CNN they were looking into a report that Iraqi soldiers shot dead seven U.S. Army soldiers as they were surrendering with their hands up Sunday. Iraqi television showed video of five U.S. soldiers in custody after their capture Sunday and the bodies of at least five other soldiers who had bullet wounds to their foreheads. Iraq has since taken two U.S. Apache helicopter pilots captive and shown video of them. To the families of the prisoners of war, Pace said the U.S. military is doing "everything we can to locate and free their sons and their daughters."
"If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning" - President George W. Bush
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 12:09:31 (EST)

My two cents are: "Report: Marines wounded in fighting late Wednesday in Iraq" DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - At least 25 Marines from Camp Lejeune were injured during house-to-house fighting that began Wednesday night in An Nasiriyah, according to a WTVD-TV reporter traveling with the troops. Keith Garvin, reporting live Wednesday evening - about 2 a.m. in Baghdad - said the Marines were wounded over the past few hours in combat that had picked up "quite a bit in the last 10 minutes or so." He reported late Wednesday night that none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening. Civilians living behind a Marine camp at An Nasiriyah were seen setting up bunkers in the afternoon, and military officials "said they had heard or felt that something bad was going to happen tonight," Garvin reported. Intelligence reports indicated 2,000 Iraqi troops were advancing on the camp, and a two-hour fight with missiles and artillery ensued, ultimately augmented by aerial bombing, he said. Garvin said some of the Iraqi fighters were using women as shields and had given guns to children. "Unfortunately some of the children have been firing at our Marines and our Marines have been forced to defend themselves," he said. The wounded appeared to be in addition to 15 Lejeune Marines who have been reported injured during the Iraqi conflict. Eleven Lejeune Marines have died, nine in combat in the An Nasiriyah area and two in accidents.
forced collateral damage
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 11:39:56 (EST)

My two cents are: snicker
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 10:44:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Tony Blair's plane hit by lightning - - - - - - - - - - - - March 26, 2003 | ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AP) -- The plane carrying British Prime Minister Tony Blair to a meeting with President Bush was struck by lightning as it approached the United States on Wednesday, a reporter on board said. No injuries or damage were reported. Britain's Press Association news agency said Blair's chartered British Airways Boeing 777 was struck by a lightning bolt as it approached Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland at about 10,000 feet. It landed 20 minutes later, at 5:05 p.m.
a liitle message to Tony and Snippy from GOD
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 09:35:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Traitor Bush? How can you say that? Just because he's sold his country into debt slavery, ruined the economy, made his country a laughingstock, and invaded another country, slaughtering soldiers and innocents?
so what?
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 09:22:54 (EST)

My two cents are: INNOCENT VICTIMS Many said the Baghdad blasts just confirmed their long-held fears that innocent civilians would pay the highest price for a war they increasingly blame on Washington alone. "It has to stop, that's all. There are women, men and children, innocents who have no connection with the war. It is the civilians who pay," said Moroccan receptionist Bouchra. Attia, the 55-year-old owner of a ball-bearing shop in Cairo, stabbed his finger at a page full of pictures of Iraqi children wounded in the attack and the body of a civilian. "What would happen if the Arabs did this in London or Manchester or Birmingham?" he asked. Pointing at a picture of a weeping, injured child, he said: "(British Prime Minister Tony) Blair has four children, doesn't he? What would happen if this was one of his?" Iraq (news - web sites) said on Thursday that more than 350 Iraqi civilians had been killed since the invasion began a week ago, with women, children and elderly people making up most of the victims. Ali, a 27-year-old Lebanese lawyer, said the rising civilian death toll "makes you wonder whether they are really after our blood, whether we are people who are not allowed to live and must be squashed like insects." "I pray to God to take them (U.S. and British forces) all to hell," said Ahmad Shehab, a Syrian civil servant. "Why? Because they lie and say they want to protect Iraqis. But watch TV and you will see that all they want to do is to kill Arabs in Iraq and Palestine." VENTING ANGER Analysts say the blow-by-blow media coverage of the war, replete with daily pictures of blood and gore, is sure to fuel anti-American sentiment which could trigger renewed protests throughout the Arab world after Muslim midday prayers on Friday. Thousands of Arabs have held anti-war rallies throughout the region since the war erupted a week ago, and some of the protests have turned unusually violent. It may also fan latent anger at Arab governments, who have bent over backwards to convince their publics they had done all they could to prevent a war on fellow Arab state Iraq. Many Arabs accuse their governments of failing to protect their own. "Shame on all Arab leaders who saw this scene and did nothing to stop the massacres of our Arab brothers in Iraq," said Abdel-Naser Nadeem, an engineer in Gaza.
SHAME ON TRAITOR BUSH
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 09:20:35 (EST)

My two cents are: In a Jan. 7 Knight Ridder/Princeton Research poll, 44% of respondents said they thought "most" or "some" of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were Iraqi citizens. Only 17% of those polled offered the correct answer: none. This was remarkable in light of the fact that, in the weeks after 9/11, few Americans identified Iraqis among the culprits. So the level of awareness on this issue actually plunged as time passed. Is it possible the media failed to give this appropriate attention? In the same sample, 41% said that Iraq already possessed nuclear weapons, which not even the Bush administration claimed. Despite being far off base in crucial areas, 66% of respondents claimed to have a "good understanding" of the arguments for and against going to war with Iraq. Then, a Pew Research Center/Council on Foreign Relations survey released Feb. 20 found that nearly two-thirds of those polled believed that U.N. weapons inspectors had "found proof that Iraq is trying to hide weapons of mass destruction." Neither Hans Blix nor Mohamed ElBaradei ever said they found proof of this. The same survey found that 57% of those polled believed Saddam Hussein helped terrorists involved with the 9/11 attacks, a claim the Bush team had abandoned. A March 7-9 New York Times/CBS News Poll showed that 45% of interviewees agreed that "Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks," and a March 14-15 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found this apparently mistaken notion holding firm at 51%. The significance of this is suggested by the finding, in the same survey, that 32% of those supporting an attack cited Saddam's alleged involvement in supporting terrorists as the "main reason" for endorsing invasion. Another 43% said it was "one reason." Knowing this was a crucial element of his support -- even though he could not prove the 9/11 connection -- the president nevertheless tried to bolster the link. Bush mentioned 9/11 eight times during his March 6 prime-time news conference, linking it with Saddam Hussein "often in the same breath," Linda Feldmann of The Christian Science Monitor observed last week. "Bush never pinned the blame for the [9/11] attacks directly on the Iraqi president," Feldmann wrote. "Still, the overall effect was to reinforce an impression that persists among much of the American public." Carroll Doherty, editor of the Pew Research Center, told me last week: "It's very rare to find a perception that's been so disputed by experts yet firmly held by the public.
the bushist no-truth zone
- Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 09:04:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Whoever is running this site, until you get rid of that cottage cheese blurb you're not a hell of a lot different than those you accuse of degrading females.
all depends on who's buying, selling
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 23:36:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Like liar Bush, traitor Pete.
none dare call it moronism?
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 23:32:00 (EST)

My two cents are: "Glorious service with no risk of injury'? Why, they're talking about Coward Bush!! Hot over the skies of--what stupid state was it? And he didn't even show up for that?
AWOL Nonpresident
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 23:31:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Explanation: gimme, gimme, gimme.
War is Peace, Poverty is Prosperity
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 23:28:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Whenever an act of terrorism occurs, people will again fully support Bush, no matter his perfidy, because they have, it would appear to them, no one else to turn to. Remember that the goal of the Bush Cartel, like a crime family, is the consolidation of power and monopoly control over markets. For a crime family, this is usually control over an area for the purposes of selling drugs, stolen goods, and prostitution. For the Bush Cartel, it is the control or acquisition of new markets that can be awarded as "concessions" to its campaign contributors. If you think this is an outrageous accusation, please explain the secret contracting process for "rebuilding" Iraq. Please explain how Halliburton got a no-bid contract. Please explain why the American and British oil companies will split up the oil fields. Please explain the secret Cheney energy plan meetings with energy providers. Please explain the benefits that will accrue to the Carlyle group. Please explain the proposed Unocal pipeline in Afghanistan.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 22:25:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, Pete and Glint...I don't hate you. I want to...but God loves me too much to let me. I can count my blessings.
Mary
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 21:18:07 (EST)

My two cents are: What does Pete know about survival. Probably never had to survive anything worse than playground attack.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 21:01:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, As much as you'd like to think you are...You are not God.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 20:43:27 (EST)

My two cents are: PRICELESS: "Liberals are like the Republican Guard. They never quit. American forces have taken two-thirds of Iraq and are fast advancing on Baghdad. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers have surrendered or disbanded, thousands more have been captured, and thousands more have been killed. Meanwhile, American forces have suffered less than two dozen deaths.... Saddam's Vice Despot Tariq Aziz says the war is being fought only to "create something called greater Israel." Aziz seems to be positioning himself to run for Congress as a Democrat.... One can only hope the Security Council will agree to intervene. How would they stop us? Would France threaten us with war? Young men across America would have to enlist as a matter of honor. The Army could use as its recruiting slogan: "Are you afraid to fight the French?" Even liberals would enlist as a way to pick up glorious service with no risk of injury."
go anne go
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 20:10:26 (EST)

My two cents are:

Just five days into the war in Iraq and the New York Times was hopefully reporting that despite a thrilling beginning, American troops had gotten bogged down. This came as a surprise to regular readers of the Times who remembered that the Times thought we were bogged down the moment the war began. The day after the first bombs were dropped on Baghdad, the New York Times ran a front-page article describing the mood of the nation thus: "Some faced it with tears, others with contempt, none with gladness." Apparently some people greeted the war with gladness: The stock market had its best week in 20 years. What people do with their money is a rather more profound barometer of how people feel than any stupid poll, much less bald assertions by New York Times reporters. The Times subscribes to Arab-style proclamations in defiance of the facts. Like Saddam Hussein, the truth for them has no meaning. They say whatever honor commands them to say. Five days after the Baghdad Times was morosely reporting that no one viewed the war with gladness, things had gotten even worse. In a single editorial, the Times said our troops were "faced with battlefield death, human error and other tragedies." The task "looks increasingly formidable." There were "disturbing events," and American forces were engaged in a "fierce firefight � an early glimpse of urban warfare." There were "downsides," "disheartening events" and "grievous blows." We're losing this war! The Elite Republican Guard is assembling outside New York City! Head for the hills! The "fierce firefight" referred to in the editorial concerned a battle in Nasiriyah in which American troops took an entire city with nine casualties. That's what most people call a "triumphal a**-kicking." CNN's favorite general, Wesley Clark, has also been heard to opine that our troops are getting bogged down in Iraq. His competence to judge American generals is questionable since his command was limited to working for NATO. We prefer to hear from American generals. Clark's contribution to international relations consisted of mistakenly bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. In his zeal to prevent troop casualties, he ordered pilots to fly at such high altitudes that the pilots complained that they were being forced to incur unnecessary civilian casualties. On MSNBC, Forrest Sawyer compared Iraqi forces killing our troops to American revolutionaries and said the war was likely to turn into a "nightmare." Liberals are like the Republican Guard. They never quit. American forces have taken two-thirds of Iraq and are fast advancing on Baghdad. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers have surrendered or disbanded, thousands more have been captured, and thousands more have been killed. Meanwhile, American forces have suffered less than two dozen deaths. One can gauge the success of the war by the increasingly gloomy expression on Dan Rather's face. Indeed, Saddam's lieutenants are so demoralized that they have turned to lashing out at the Jews. Saddam's Vice Despot Tariq Aziz says the war is being fought only to "create something called greater Israel." Aziz seems to be positioning himself to run for Congress as a Democrat. Most auspiciously, the Arab League has appealed to the United Nations Security Council to stop the war. One can only hope the Security Council will agree to intervene. How would they stop us? Would France threaten us with war? Young men across America would have to enlist as a matter of honor. The Army could use as its recruiting slogan: "Are you afraid to fight the French?" Even liberals would enlist as a way to pick up glorious service with no risk of injury. Not surprisingly, the New York Times gave Saddam's recent speech more exultant coverage than they did Bush's State of the Union address. Since the first bomb hit Baghdad, everyone at the Times had been itching to use the word "quagmire." Somewhat surprisingly, Saddam beat even Maureen Dowd to the punch, thus allowing the Times to use "quagmire" with abandon the day after his speech. Not only that, but according to Saddam � and the Times � the invading forces are "in real trouble." The Times isn't afraid we'll do badly in Baghdad; it's afraid we'll do well. After the Arab television network al-Jazeera repeatedly ran footage of U.S. prisoners of war over the weekend, the New York Stock Exchange threw al-Jazeera reporters off the trading floor. They ought to remove the Times. - Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 20:05:32 (EST)

My two cents are: That's fine with me, Mary, I hate stupid, treasonous liberals like you. Go to Hell.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 19:22:45 (EST)

My two cents are: MORE IDIOCY FROM THE LEFTIST COWARDS; LIE: "...rumble into Baghdad to kill anything with a turban and an Islamic faith and a dusty..." Next UP: "We don't know anything." No, YOU don't know anything. Traitor.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 19:21:52 (EST)

My two cents are: One thing we do know: we are not cowardly, do-nothing liberals bent on rolling over and letting more Hitlerian tyrants terrorize the world. Grow a brain. You people are idiots. Survival is a grim business. Welfare check or not.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 19:19:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Another liberal traitor bites the dust. DPM, RIP.

Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 19:17:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Must be a NYT reader.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 18:23:23 (EST)

My two cents are: We think we know so damn much. We think we know cause and effect. We think we know basic systems and human nature and the arc of time, what sort of hellish road we are paving right this minute, all those big colorful maps and arrows and diagrams and missile trajectories on CNN, all the clusters of little green plastic army men pushed around a giant map table by embittered generals. We think we know what will happen to the collective unconscious, to the soul of the population at large when the scowling GOP war hawks issued the order to rain 3,000 multimillion-dollar warheads down on a bedraggled piss-poor food-starved nation in a single day. Or when we massacre tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians and lay waste to an entire culture and landscape and history, as a 20-mile-long procession of U.S. troops rumble into Baghdad to kill anything with a turban and an Islamic faith and a dusty 1983 U.S.-Iraq chemical-weapons sales receipt, and call it patriotism. We think we know all about body counts and nation building, and we think we have some sort of sanctimonious monopoly on the idea of what type of freedom everyone should have, what sort of force-fed democracy everyone really needs, whose self-righteous angry SUV-driving god has the right to bitch-slap which self-righteous angry Koran-reading god, and call it Christian largesse. We don't know anything.
two armchair warriors on this page think they know a lot about war
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 18:02:49 (EST)

My two cents are: That's why they like very subjective Frenzied Fox News. Feeds their hunger for blood.
sip, sip
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 17:52:27 (EST)

My two cents are: God forgive me for saying this but I hate Saddam. I hate Bush. I hate Bush for his bloodlust for this war. His wanting this war..God I hate him. And I hate Pete and Glint too for laughing and joking and talking up war like it was some sort of macho pissing contest.
Mary
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 17:46:23 (EST)

My two cents are: I read the linked article below with great interest. However, there was no mention of whether the experiment was a success or not. And, if it was a success, did the heart attack come before or after the white hot lava?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 17:38:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Is he returning by way of Germany? I never realized that geezing could be so dangerous.
Glint
Sex toy kills pensioner - Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 17:28:09 (EST)

My two cents are: BZZZZT! Wrong. It means people like news that is presented objectively, not pre-digested bilge spoon fed as from mother to baby.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 17:23:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Only proves people love national inquirer type news. Called feeding the frenzied.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 17:18:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Doh! "Netework" ?
Glint
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 16:59:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Look Ma, I did a bar graph with no hands!
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 16:59:03 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that the Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera was portraying the US-led invasion of Iraq in a negative light and exaggerating small military achievements of Saddam Hussein's regime. In an interview with National Public Radio, aired just hours before he gave a live interview to Al-Jazeera, Powell accused the Qatar-based satellite broadcaster of a lack of objectivity in covering the war. "I'm sorry that that is the case, but it is the case," Powell said. "Al-Jazeera has an editorial line and a way presenting news that appeals to the Arab public," he said. "They watch it and they magnify the minor successes of the regime. "And they tend to portray our efforts in a negative light," Powell said, adding that he hoped Al-Jazeera would report on US efforts to improve the lives of the Iraqi people as the conflict continued and after it is over. "We will see what Al-Jazeera is reporting after we have defeated this regime and the United States ... working with others, working with the UN start to bring in humanitarian supplies, medical supplies, a reconstruction effort and put in place a better life for the people of Iraq," he said. "I hope Al-Jazeera is going to be around to watch that and report that to the Arab public and I think at that point, the Arab public will realize that we came in peace, we came as liberators, not conquerors," he said.
you jsut know it when you see it. No other measure necessary
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 16:13:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Robert Mugabe noted that British media reports had compared him to Hitler. "This Hitler has only one objective - justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources," he said. "If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold."
where is the UN on this miscreant? The UN was "supposedly" established to deal with these kinds of tyrants and remove them.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 15:31:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Wrong, anon, there is a difference between patriotic information and treasonous propoganda. Watch Fox and then CNN for the clear distinctions. If you can't see them, than that simply proves the point.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 15:26:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Like Soviet leader Josef Stalin during World War II, Saddam portrays the war as a struggle to save the motherland, rather than defense of his Baath party ideology or seat of power. Iraqi television anchormen, who have switched jackets and ties for military fatigues, relentlessly drive home the message that Americans are trying to subjugate the people of Iraq and steal their oil wealth against the will of the United Nations. "The enemy came to occupy your land," Saddam said in a televised address earlier this week. "Be patient. Their aerial bombardment will intensify as they take more defeats on the ground. Do not give in."
And CNN and the liberal traitors aid and abet them
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 15:25:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Right, Pete. The whole war is about spin, as are all wars. It's up to the free press to challenge the propoganda you're getting from the Pentagon and Snippy. They're job, as always, is to convince the rubes that every untoward event was planned for. But you're a smart guy. You've seen the routine before. You know you won't get the bad news from the government, only the good or what can be made to sound good. It's not you I'm worried about. It's the others.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 15:16:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Spittle spin by the traitors. Keep at it, you are not cute.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 15:06:24 (EST)

My two cents are: The black woman captured was a cook. Hardly a combat assignment. Not that you give a shit about sexual harrassment or rape survivors anyhow, POT-y mouths.
blame the butcher of baghdad for starting this war
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 14:54:48 (EST)

My two cents are: There is no leftist spin in the media. It's all rightwards. Not even worth looking at. Better to get unbiased info from the Net.
NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 14:52:25 (EST)

My two cents are: The marines are aggrieved: aggrieved that the Iraqis aren't more grateful, aggrieved that the Iraqis are shooting at them, aggrieved that the US army's spearhead 3rd Infantry Division tore through Nassiriya earlier in the invasion without making it safe. "They didn't clear the place, and then they left, and now the marines sure have to clear it," he said. "Just like the goddam army." And the Iraqis are aggrieved at the marines. A 50-year-old businessman and farmer, Said Yahir, was driving up to the main body of the reconnaissance unit, stationed under the bridge. He wanted to know why the marines had come to his house and taken his son Nathen, his Kalashnikov rifle, and his 3m dinars (about �500). "What did I do?" he said. "This is your freedom that you're talking about? This is my life savings." Mohsen Ali, a devout Shia fingering amber beads as he spoke, said the Iraqi people would fight for Iraq, if not for President Saddam, although he supported the dictator. The country needed a strong leader, he said - even a brutal one. "If in Iraq there's a leader who's fair, he'll be killed the next day," he said. "Iraqis have hot blood. If he's not tough, he dies the next day."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 14:41:45 (EST)

My two cents are: One of the five U.S. soldiers captured by Iraqi forces and questioned on Iraqi television is the first female POW since the Clinton administration's military leaders repealed a rule barring servicewomen from positions with a high risk of encountering enemy fire or capture. In 1994, the Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Les Aspin, discarded the "Risk Rule" and authorized women to serve in any post other than in frontline infantry, special-operations forces, or armor or artillery units. The Pentagon was swayed by feminists, said Elaine Donnelly, president of the Military Readiness Center, an independent public policy organization that specializes in military personnel issues. "It's bad when a man is captured. But if a woman is captured, she doesn't have the same chance [to defend herself] that a man does," said Mrs. Donnelly. Both Mrs. Donnelly and retired Army Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis said when they learned of the woman's capture, they thought about a female POW from the 1991 Persian Gulf war who was sexually assaulted by Iraqis. Col. Maginnis, a Fox News analyst, said no one should be surprised if a female POW is sexually assaulted. "You must consider that women in every society are preyed upon if they are overtaken. ... Now that women are closer to the front lines, they are more subject to becoming captives and being manipulated," he said.
Clinton. Figures.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 14:22:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, Glint, it amkes me sick to watch fools like Paula Zahn spin Bush's hand to hand greetings as: "WEll, this is a President who does not liek to minlge." I mean these people are SO BIASED. Nothijng good to say. Naysaying nayb obs of negativism. No wonder Fox is winning the ratings war. CNN is loaded with feel gooder traitors who want the US to look as badly as possible. God forbid the Americans might win. Liberal Media Traitors. Of course, they can never see it because they are so blinded by their own brainwashing. WE KNOW it is there as it is evident every single time.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 13:39:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Jessica Lynch captured POW somewhere in Iraq. Close your eyes.

Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 13:36:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. Slanting the war coverage... That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. Most military experts are saying the campaign in Iraq is an unprecedented success. The war is now six days old. The USA has losses of 20 dead and 14 captured or missing according to the Associated Press. The allies control most of the country and are knocking on the door of Saddam's bunker. But if you read The New York Times today, you might think Iraq was winning. The front page of the "Times" was full of ominous headlines. "Iraqis Repel Copters; One Goes Down." "GIs Regroup After Setback --Two Prisoners on Iraqi TV." "Hussein Rallies Iraqi Defenders." "The Goal Is Baghdad, but at What Cost?" All these headlines were on just one page. Unbelievable. Contrast that to page one of the The Boston Globe, also a very liberal newspaper. "Coalition nearing Baghdad." "War plan on course." "Hunt for banned weapons." "Strategy aims at heart of Hussein's rule." Quite a difference. The Globe giving straight and honest war coverage. So why is the "New York Times" spinning its coverage to the negative side? Well, there's a big reason. Everybody knows the USA will win the war, but if the victory is too overwhelming, the Bush administration wins big too. The Times definitely does not want that to happen. So its editorial position is shading its news coverage, and that's flat-out wrong. The Times wants a pyrrhic victory, that's a win with consequences, so we can say that more diplomacy should have been tried. This kind of a game, playing with vital information makes me extremely angry. There's no question that today's front page of the nation's most powerful newspaper does not reflect the truth of the battlefield. Here's how absurd the whole thing is. 20 Americans are dead. Nine of them were killed by cowardly Iraqis who faked a surrender. And the majority of those captured made a wrong turn, driving right into the Iraqi forces. There have been few major engagements between Iraqi units and American combat troops. The Iraqis are killing coalition soldiers by dressing up in civilian clothes, shooting from mosques and child care centers, and generally violating every rule of warfare in the book. Yet the Times calls the resistance "fierce." Well, I call that kind of coverage farce. And I can back up my description with the facts, not misleading headlines. There may indeed be vicious fighting before this war is over, but right now American troops have done incredibly well. Fighting against cowardly thugs, not using much of its arsenal in order to protect Iraqi civilians. So now you know the truth from the battlefield.
Examples: NYT
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 13:23:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Do you have an example of the leftist spin on CNN; NYT?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 13:13:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, you might want to bookmark this page while the conflict lasts. Cheers.
Glint
Iraq's Military Forces - Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:56:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Same with NYT. Saw some of the unvelievably negative spin in their headlines displayed at O'Reilly's last night on Fox. The left lean of the NYT news page made even the Boston Globe appear balanced by comparison.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:54:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Is CNN aiding the negative spin campaign? Unreal nonsense.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:33:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Are they still using the T-72 against the Abrams?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:27:27 (EST)

My two cents are: No, it's not a video game. Not yet. We're working on it.
Toshi Nintendo
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:11:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Excellent report about the history of the Abrams tank on the History Channel last night. Good source for information on weapons in use right now in the fight at Najaf.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:09:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Whether there is war or no war, Iraqis are dying." And now Americans are dying.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 11:59:10 (EST)

My two cents are: "showed just 38 percent of the public said the conflict was going well on Monday, down from 71 percent on Friday." Define "going well". What kind of question is this one week into a war, before we even enter Baghdad? This isn't a video game.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 11:56:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Who did they poll, readers of the NY Times?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 11:52:40 (EST)

My two cents are: The turn of events in Iraq was reflected in a new poll by the Pew Research Center that showed just 38 percent of the public said the conflict was going well on Monday, down from 71 percent on Friday.
Of course opinion of the "conflict" went down over the weekend. We ran out of potato chips and the cable was out for three hours. - Captain Easy Chair
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 11:45:39 (EST)

My two cents are: It was a tough decision, but I've got to place the Chung story on top of the Oscar coverage. Then, of course, there's the war.
Drudge
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 10:37:13 (EST)

My two cents are: "Chung pressed CNN's management last Friday to put the program, which had been suspended for war coverage, back on as soon as possible, The New York Times reported. CNN, a unit of AOL Time Warner, responded by telling her that it would decide over the weekend when it would bring the show back. Instead, its management called her in Tuesday to tell her the program will not resume when the war coverage ends."
Connie's been shot!
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 10:17:05 (EST)

My two cents are: "The invasion should be seen through the eyes of the Iraqi people. Whether there is war or no war, Iraqis are dying."
Your Daily High Pie
Iraqi Sentiment Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 10:00:26 (EST)

My two cents are: "Connie Chung show canceled on CNN"
(Thanks to Bill O'Reilly's viewers)
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 09:51:53 (EST)

My two cents are: "Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship." "There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars." "Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 09:40:38 (EST)

My two cents are: it is amazing what a man has to do to repay his campaign contriutions
ivy heymann <[email protected]>
carrizozo, nm usa - Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 00:58:16 (EST)

My two cents are: The enemy is within. Pete�
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 23:56:40 (EST)

My two cents are: The war, that is.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 21:41:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Plays about as well over here as it did over there.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 21:38:58 (EST)

My two cents are: have anyone heard straight question from media if Bush is going to Iran?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 21:05:21 (EST)

My two cents are: US personell should be supported as human beings in Iraq. Not governent assholes. Wich they appear to be because new concept of "love ones".Which means bodybacks.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 20:57:36 (EST)

My two cents are: let me tell about precision.If you go across of street there might be a car coming.If you step on the street now you die. You had no fear knowing this.But if you patiently wait for the precision of the car to go by you can safely cross the street.With no fear.Now you can say CIA fuced up. They did not exalty know where you were because they precisely thougth that you were somewhere else.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 20:39:03 (EST)

My two cents are: There is is no "us" when someone choose to to Hit first.
European
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 20:20:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Coalition sounds like politician.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 20:17:02 (EST)

My two cents are: I would not like my asshole hurt so much.
please go back
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 20:02:07 (EST)

My two cents are: US personell should be supported as human beings in Iraq. Not governent assholes. Wich they appear to because new concept of "love ones".Which means bodybacks.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 19:54:26 (EST)

My two cents are: I say! Do you really think entering the city will be useful? To us, I mean.
Limey
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 16:53:37 (EST)

My two cents are: BASRA, Iraq (CNN) -- British commanders said it appeared a popular uprising against the ruling Baath Party was under way in Basra as British troops and tanks were maneuvering under the cover of darkness near the southern Iraq city. Juliet Bremner, a correspondent with the British network ITV with troops outside the city, said the commanders told her they had seen groups of 40 to 50 citizens at various locations on the streets and that British forces had taken out an Iraqi mortar that had been firing on the apparent protesters. Bremner and her ITV colleague Romilly Weeks said British forces were preparing to enter the city if they determined such a move would be useful. The residents of Basra, an important center of Iraq's Shiite population, staged an uprising after the Persian Gulf War of 1991. But without backup from any coalition forces that had driven Saddam Hussein's regime out of Kuwait, hundreds of thousands were killed.
Fool me once ... shame on you ... fool me, uh, twice ... uh ... uh ... we won't get fooled again!
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 16:50:12 (EST)

My two cents are: You know, maybe Pete is wrong about this being WWIII, but Snippy�s doing his best to make it happen.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 16:35:35 (EST)

My two cents are: And the Iraqis are aggrieved at the marines. A 50-year-old businessman and farmer, Said Yahir, was driving up to the main body of the reconnaissance unit, stationed under the bridge. He wanted to know why the marines had come to his house and taken his son Nathen, his Kalashnikov rifle, and his 3m dinars (about 500). "What did I do?" he said. "This is your freedom that you're talking about? This is my life savings." In 1991, in the wake of Iraq's defeat in the first Gulf war, Mr Yahir was one of those who joined the rebellion against Saddam Hussein. His house was shelled by the dictator's artillery. The US refused to intervene and the rebellion was crushed. "Saddam would have fallen if they had supported us," Mr Yahir said. "I've been so humiliated." Under the bridge, Sergeant Michael Sprague was unrepentant. The money, the marines said, was probably destined for terrorist activities - buying a suicide bomber, for instance. "The same people we determined were safe yesterday were found with weapons today," he said.
Nothing like assumptions of guilt and preemptive punishments to win the hearts of the populace!
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 15:33:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe it's warmongering invasion lemming assholes who deserve to be "taken out." Pre-emptively, or post. For the good of the civilized world.
no loss
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 15:09:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Today's Top Five Headlines on BuzzFlash.com: Once Again, As Always, the Bush Cartel Has Been Misleading Us About the War Shameful, Intolerable and Done Under Cover of Bush's Little War: Congress Near Passage of Bush Budget, Tax Plans A BuzzFlash Reader Offers Her Professional Services to George W. Bush 3/25 Bush Cartel Plans to Run Iraq by Itself 3/25 Civilian Deaths From U.S. Airstrikes Fuel Rising Anger in Iraq 3/25 For More Than 130 Headlines and Stories visit http://www.buzzflash.com. // Hey, guys, let's violate international law, invade another country, run it and exploit its resources! Sound like fun? Sounds like Hitler annexing Czechoslovakia? Nah. Czech had no oil!
NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 15:08:16 (EST)

My two cents are:

LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led force in Iraq risks as many as 3,000 casualties in the battle for Baghdad and Washington has underestimated the number of troops needed, a top former commander from the 1991 Gulf War said on Monday.Retired U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey, commander of the 24th Infantry Division 12 years ago, said the U.S.-led force faced "a very dicey two to three day battle" as it pushes north toward the Iraqi capital."We ought to be able to do it (take Baghdad)," he told the Newsnight Program on Britain's BBC Television late on Monday."In the process if they (the Iraqis) actually fight, and that's one of the assumptions, clearly it's going to be brutal, dangerous work and we could take, bluntly, a couple to 3,000 casualties," said McCaffrey who became one of the most senior ranking members of the U.S. military following the 1991 war."So if they (the Americans and British) are unwilling to face up to that, we may have a difficult time of it taking down Baghdad and Tikrit up to the north west."McCaffrey said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had misjudged the nature of the conflict. Asked if Rumsfeld made a mistake by not sending more troops to start the offensive, McCaffrey replied: "Yes, sure. I think everybody told him that.""I think he thought these were U.S. generals with their feet planted in World War II that didn't understand the new way of warfare," he added.U.S. forces have advanced more than 200 miles into Iraqi territory since the start of the war and are beginning to confront an elite division of the Republican Guards deployed to defend the capital."So it ought to be a very dicey two to three day battle out there." McCaffrey said of the confrontation with the Republican Guards.He said his personal view was that the invading troops would "take them (the Iraqis) apart.""But we've never done something like this with this modest a force at such a distance from its bases," he warned.McCaffrey, a former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces in Latin America, served overseas for 13 years and took part in four combat tours.He twice received the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest medal for valor in the United States. - Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 13:59:32 (EST)

My two cents are:

In 1998, after years of evasion and deception, Mr. Hussein had stopped co-operating with United Nations weapons inspectors. The U.S. president at the time called Iraq an "outlaw nation," and urged the international community to take strong action. If "we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route which gives him yet more opportunities to develop his weapons of mass destruction ... he will conclude that the international community has lost its will." The result, he said, would be disastrous. "Some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal." The name of the president? Bill Clinton. While Mr. Clinton was popular outside the United States in a way that the blunt-spoken, unsophisticated Mr. Bush is not. In substance, though, their stand on Iraq is all but identical. After the UN inspectors left Iraq later in 1998, Mr. Clinton ordered a military strike against Iraq: Operation Desert Fox. True, his administration did not go all the way and order an invasion of Iraq, as Mr. Bush has. Mr. Clinton would never have been able to muster the political support for that, even if he had wanted it. Regime change became the official policy of the U.S. government. Mr. Bush did not invent that policy; he inherited it. If regime change became a more urgent priority under his leadership, it was not because of the change of presidents, but the change of circumstances. The 9/11 attacks brought home to Washington the dangers that might be posed by its enemies, especially if they armed themselves with weapons of mass destruction. Conservatives like Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, who had been arguing for years for a more muscular approach on Iraq, suddenly had Mr. Bush's ear. Planning for war began at once. The former president has been broadly supportive of the White House's Iraq policy, saying in February that Mr. Hussein is "going to have to disarm ... if he wants to avoid war." This month, he has turned more critical. Mr. Bush, he said, should have done more to line up international support before going to war. That is a frequent refrain of Mr. Bush's Democratic critics. They say he alienated other countries by going it alone on other issues such as climate change and the new International Criminal Court, thus assuring that those countries would not listen when push came to shove over Iraq. That may be true, but Mr. Clinton was not always the paragon of co-operative internationalism either. He signed the criminal court treaty only in the final days of his presidency and he bypassed the United Nations to take his country into the 1999 bombing campaign against Serbia over ethnic repression in Kosovo. Mr. Bush may rub people the wrong way. He may lack Mr. Clinton's impressive persuasive skills. But the idea that his Iraq policy represents a radical break from the warm-and-fuzzy multilateralism of Mr. Clinton is, as Michael Moore might say, fictitious. - Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 13:49:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Bottom line, liberals, the world has in fact become more primitive because the checks of the past have been liberalized. It is no us or them. For the rest of our lives. Get used to it. Your vision of utopia has no capacity to deal with human nature. Kill or be killed. Grow a brain. The enemy is within.
Pete�
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 13:28:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Glad there's the internet to supply Glint and the rest of us with actual pictures of actual carnage--on both sides--get away from Dirty Bush/Cheney-Halliburton/Rumsfeld's bullshit sanitized war. What liars. Too chicken to put what they've really caused on TV.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 13:14:57 (EST)

My two cents are: "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." ---------- Samuel P. Huntington
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 13:12:35 (EST)

My two cents are: NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The first contracts for rebuilding post-war Iraq have been awarded, and Vice President Dick Cheney's old employer, Halliburton Co., is one of the early winners.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 12:45:58 (EST)

My two cents are: A BUZZFLASH READER OFFER Dear President Bush, At this time of national crisis, I would like to offer my assistance to you. As a practicing psychologist for more than thirty years, it has become clear to me that your mental health has been seriously neglected. In the interest of our nation, I would like to offer my services as a psychologist to you on a "pro bono" basis. It would, after all, be for the good of the country. Of course, it would be presumptuous of me to attempt to diagnose your emotional difficulties without meeting you face to face. However, I believe that I have had sufficient opportunity to observe you to put forth a few hypotheses of "trouble" areas with which you seem to need assistance. First, and of great concern, is evidence of delusional thinking - a symptom of psychosis. The delusion that seems most evident is that bombing a people into submission is a strong foundation for democracy, and for generating good will in a nation. There is also the delusion that Saddam Hussein poses an imminent threat to the USA. (Or was that just a lie, suggesting psychopathic deviance?) Another symptom that many people have noted is disorganized and incoherent speech, which, unfortunately, can be another symptom of psychosis. Confused thinking is also a problem for you, as demonstrated by the idea that our reason for going to war is Iraq's defiance of the UN, yet you are defying the UN by going to war. This suggests rather muddled cognitive functioning. These symptoms suggest that I would feel that a referral to a psychiatrist for medication might be indicated. However, your history of multiple substance abuse should lead to caution in the use of certain psychotropic medications. While there are some indicators of psychosis, there are also many signs of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which include arrogance and grandiosity, as well as a need for unlimited power. There is also a lack of empathy for others, and, in your case, no regard for them at all if they speak another language. You suffer from an excessive need for admiration and a sense of entitlement. Evidence for that includes your refusal to speak before the European Union unless you could be guaranteed a standing ovation. Your actions regarding attacking Iraq in spite of negative world reaction reveal your arrogance in a clear and obvious way. Emotional immaturity has been in evidence as well. The tendency toward black and white thinking is one sign of emotional immaturity. Statements that divide the world into good and evil, and "you're with us or against us" reflect thinking typical of a young child. Emotional growth and development is known to be stunted by substance abuse. Could that be what happened with you? Problems with the truth are also in evidence, as in such statements as "I am a man of peace", "I am a uniter (sic) not a divider" and "I�m hopeful that we can avoid a war." None of these statements enjoy the support of your behavior. While a certain amount of lying is expected from politicians, yours seems to be well in excess of the norm. Although I have a busy schedule, I am confident that my current patients, in the service of their country, would be willing to change their schedules to accommodate you. I also need to warn you that I cannot guarantee relief from all the above symptoms, as personality disorders are notoriously difficult to treat. Therefore, in order to pursue your recovery, it might be wise to consider resigning from the stresses of your current position to devote your time to your psychological well being. Sincerely, Dr. L.D.DeVito Clinical Psychologist
hope for the needy snippy
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 11:30:18 (EST)

My two cents are: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia has contacted the United States and Iraq with a peace proposal, the kingdom's foreign minister told reporters Tuesday. He said he was still awaiting a response.
Uncle Dick says to tell you "no thanks" and that he hopes this doesn't cool the warm feelings between our two nations.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 11:21:48 (EST)

My two cents are: "Military code says penalty for murder is death" The enlisted man who allegedly opened fire after rolling grenades into an officers' tent on Sunday morning, killing a Lehigh Valley native, will be tried before a regular military court and likely will face the death penalty, according to legal experts. The Army has launched a formal investigation into the murder of Army Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, a U.S. Army captain in the 101st Airborne Division. A grenade attack followed by a round of fire took the life of the 27-year-old officer and wounded 15 other soldiers at 1:22 a.m. Sunday at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait. Pentagon spokesmen and Army officials would not comment directly about the case against Sgt. Asan Akbar, a black convert to Islam and the only suspect in the case.
save the bullets for the iraqis - find a palm tree and a rope
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 11:15:21 (EST)

My two cents are: We have massed the greatest concentration of firepower in the history of the world to attack a country of 25 million people which has not attacked us, but I noticed that when some soldiers of that country played a trick on us, pretending to surrender and then suddenly attacking and killing some of our troops, our response was, "No fair!"
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 10:34:04 (EST)

My two cents are: What is the difference between war and terrorism?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 08:53:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Classified Report Says Iran, Not Iraq, Gassed Kurds While the Bush regime keeps insisting Saddam Hussein gassed "his own people," a former CIA senior political analyst on Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War, Stephen C. Pelletiere, says a Defense Intelligence Agency investigation, following the battle, points to the Iranians as having gassed the Kurds caught up in the battle. The classified report says both sides used gas in the battle around Halabja, but the condition of the dead Kurds' bodies indicated they were gassed with a cyanide-based gas, which Iran was known to use. While the Iraqis are believed to have used mustard gas in that war, the classified DIA report says they were not known to have possessed blood agents, such as cyanide-based gas, at the time.
George be targeting Iran next
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 02:51:40 (EST)

My two cents are: "Iran might even be his real target" Bush has a target?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 00:23:42 (EST)

My two cents are: President Bush looks like Pat Robertson and they both look like howdy doody.
strange, but true
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 23:33:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Still Watchin' Teletubbies, Pickin' Lint War has brought little change to the regulated, by-the-numbers life of the Shrubster, isn't that nice. He is not worried or plagued by doubts, aides say, and is hewing closely to his usual routines and habits, including but not limited to "riding" around the war room on a wooden stick horsey while yelping like a drunk puppy and making explosion sounds with his mouth, regular sing-along spongebaths by Momma Barbara, actively decimating the very heart of a nation via innumerable odious domestic policies that reek of corporate greedmongering, and sneaking up to Uncle Dick every five minutes and yelling "sodomy!" to try and get his defibrillator to make that funny high-pitched humming noise -- even as American bombs pelt Baghdad and allied tanks dash across the Iraqi desert. "The president is following his normal routine," Bush's spokesman, Ari Fleischer, actually said, as small angry worms ate at his shriveled soul, just before the president left to spend the weekend, as he has often throughout his term, at the secluded Camp David presidential retreat, because there's nothing like that nice feeling a nation gets when its president launches a big nasty ultraviolent war and he runs off every weekend to take long naps and play checkers. Don't let that little war disturb your jogging routine, Mr. President. You little dink.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 23:15:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Russian can't take it when Bush goes to Iran. It means new cold war. And European Union wants to integrate Russia for any price. Winners are again only those capable to invest in military equipment.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 22:14:11 (EST)

My two cents are: For the first time in its history, the United States has claimed for itself - and now puts into action - a doctrine of preemption, the right to hit first any nation we suspect of hostile intent. In an era when nuclear, chemical and biological weapons might easily fall into the hands of stateless religious fanatics eager for martyrdom, the President says anything less would be suicide. It's a compelling argument, yes. But it has frightening implications, for it frees any nation to strike any other on the grounds that it perceives a threat. Indeed, it can be argued that the new doctrine gives thug nations an incentive to strike American interests first - to pre-empt our preemption, in other words.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 21:38:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Terror Chief Quits Another piece of news that almost got lost in the onrush of events was the resignation of Rand Beers, the top National Security Council official in the war on terror. He timed his exit to the expiry of Bush�s official ultimatum to Saddam (the US started sending Special Forces into Iraq 48 hours before the deadline UPI quoted �intelligence sources� as saying �the move reflects concern that the looming war with Iraq is hurting the fight against terrorism.�"Hardly a surprise," UPI quoted one former intelligence official as saying. "We have sacrificed a war on terror for a war with Iraq. I don't blame Randy at all. This just reflects the widespread thought that the war on terror is being set aside for the war with Iraq at the expense of our military and intel resources and the relationships with our allies." James Bamford further demolished the rationales for the attack on Iraq. �There is a predominant belief in the intelligence community that an invasion of Iraq will cause more terrorism than it will prevent. There is also a tremendous amount of embarrassment by intelligence professionals that there have been so many lies out of the administration -- by the president, (Vice President Dick) Cheney and (Secretary of State Colin) Powell -- over Iraq."
bush's dereliction of duty --impeachment next
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 21:35:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Ya, he already launched a couple missiles at Iran. He say, oops! but who believes this liar?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 21:32:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush wants to be Caliph.
more more more blood for oil
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 21:32:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Is Iran any less threat than Iraq. Why Bush would not go there? Troops are already there. Iran might even be his real target.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 20:15:30 (EST)

My two cents are: The jismheads are definitely stampeding.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 19:44:43 (EST)

My two cents are: About that Alleged Chemical Weapons Plant Found in Iraq. It was Actually Discovered 12 years ago, Mr. Bush. Also, Who Will be Planting WMD If Saddam Doesn't Have Them? Monday, March 24, 2003 MUST READ: "President Bush is using fear as a weapon, not to build courage among Americans but to stampede them into endorsing a case for a war," writes a Chicago Tribune Senior Correspondent
www.buzzflash.com
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 19:43:54 (EST)

My two cents are: More blood for oil today. Iraqi blood, American blood. Prisoners of war, torture, starvation, despair. Sure is worth it, ain't it?
love my SUV
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 19:41:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure he did it. Damn negro!
L.G.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 17:21:36 (EST)

My two cents are: I�m a stupid fuck, dontcha know. A one winged cyclops with no ear for your language.
L.G.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 17:20:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, Pete was just confused. He knows his internet cafes. He just didn�t understand Pensioner could find one too. And, while it may be easy to assume nobody likes war. I believe Glint to be an exception to the rule. Hell, the squashed faced rube hates Americans and likes death. You bet the little nazi likes war! It�s like the lamented fireworks of old! Besides, it tend to fill up the cemeteries he so loves to take the kids to. If he for one minute believed, as Pete says HE does, that this was the start of something that could even remotely touch him, he�d bury himself in a bunker ten stories deep. Pete�s weird and crazy though. Glint is just angry and depressive.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 17:19:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Did he do it?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 17:14:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Amen, LG.
Pete�
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 17:11:54 (EST)

My two cents are: The mother of Hasan Akbar, the black Army sergeant who fragged his sleeping comrades says he's being accused because "he is a Muslim." I haven't had time to look it up but I distinctly recall the punishment for treason and red-handed murder in the military was a speedy court martial and the firing squad. I hope this hasn't changed because I don't want to read stories about how he was "misunderstood" and had an unfortunate childhood. All this guy should need is a cigarette and a blindfold.
L.G.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 16:29:59 (EST)

My two cents are: The United States? Yes.
14:38
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 16:10:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Still rooting for the other team, eh 14:38?
Glint
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 15:55:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Prayer for the day. Please, God. Let there be huge chemical weapons factories SOMEWHERE in Iraq.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 15:35:56 (EST)

My two cents are: I can remember when the OIC stated that reports of a specled dress were premature too.
Glint
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 15:21:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Would appear the stock market is down because we're finding out this is not going to be quick, easy war. Guess I'll stay in the bond market.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 14:47:45 (EST)

My two cents are: If they can't find chemical weapons they're just going to have to plant them. Not that this government would ever do such a thing.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 14:38:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Officials at the US Central Command described as "premature" reports of US-led forces having discovered a "huge" chemical weapons factory in central Iraq.
Once again, jism-head was, er, premature
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 14:31:06 (EST)

My two cents are: "Have they found the WMD in Iraq?" - Anonymous@00:06:31. Yes. Glint
Really?
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 14:28:01 (EST)

My two cents are: More than 100 % of Iraqi people voted Saddam. Sounds like Gallup practise.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 13:16:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Wow, even with a blow job and stained dress Clinton's numbers were never that good. Even when he was invading the Balkans without a UN mandate.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 13:05:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Colonel Oliver North, following an interview with General Franks, Commander of the war in Iraq, made this statement: �General Franks says the Marines only watch Fox News. That�s because Fox tells the truth, and portrays these brave men and women as they are �heroes defending the world.� If only we could say the same about the other major news media.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 13:04:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Anyway, that propoganda piece by Saddam proves he's dead. He praised the already surrendered 51st commander. That was prepared to air ahead of the war. The liberal idiot females on CNN last night all jumped with glee thinking their butt boy Saddam was alive. On the channel with sanity, FOX, they were already explaining why it was a dud. Amazing bias, blinders and idiocy on CNN. Cliton's network. Still tickin ...
Pete�
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 13:02:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, well, I have submitted from Kenya, also other places, but no LAX. The Rio rubes must think theya re real Genie-arses or sumthin. Talk about rubes. Aloha (01)
Pete�
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 12:54:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Read it and weep traitors: "Seventy-two percent of Americans interviewed in a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Saturday and Sunday favor the war against Iraq, while 25% are opposed. Roughly the same number approve of the job President George W. Bush is doing."
Pete�
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 12:49:19 (EST)

My two cents are:

�THE enemy should be in no doubt that we are his Nemesis and that we are bringing about his rightful destruction. There are many regional commanders who have stains on their souls and they are stoking the fires of Hell for Saddam. As they die they will know their deeds have brought them to this place. Show them no pity. But those who do not wish to go on that journey, we will not send. As for the others, I expect you to rock their world. �We go to liberate, not to conquer. We will not fly our flags in their country. We are entering Iraq to free a people, and the only flag that will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Don�t treat them as refugees, for they are in their own country. �I know men who have taken life needlessly in other conflicts. They live with the mark of Cain upon them. If someone surrenders to you, then remember they have that right in international law, and ensure that one day they go home to their family. The ones who wish to fight, well, we aim to please. If there are casualties of war, then remember, when they woke up and got dressed in the morning they did not plan to die this day. Allow them dignity in death. Bury them properly, and mark their graves. �You will be shunned unless your conduct is of the highest, for your deeds will follow you down history. Iraq is steeped in history. It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood, and the birth of Abraham. Tread lightly there. You will have to go a long way to find a more decent, generous and upright people than the Iraqis. You will be embarrassed by their hospitality, even though they have nothing ... �There may be people among us who will not see the end of this campaign. We will put them in their sleeping bags and send them back. There will be no time for sorrow. Let�s leave Iraq a better place for us having been there. Our business now, is north.� - Monday, March 24, 2003 at 12:48:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush wants to win an Oscar?
why on earth?
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 11:20:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush is being blackmaled by Rumsfeldt und other Military Industry lobbers to survive for next four years. "Precision" means:Lets spend plenty of ammunition into same spot and save some civilians(and spend lots of American taxpayers money also). There has been plenty of time to find Saddam. Where is the "precision" in there. Bush would not win oscar.
European <a.b@c>
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 10:33:43 (EST)

My two cents are: "Russia arms cache found" RUSSIAN missiles dated 2002 were found yesterday in a bunker south of Basra � despite a UN embargo on arms sales to Iraq since 1991. The missiles find threatens a major diplomatic bust-up with Russia, which has opposed Allied efforts to disarm Saddam. Russian lettering and the year 2002 were clearly stencilled on the containers of two Al Harith anti-ship cruise missiles. A larger missile, between 30 and 40ft long, lay nearby. It also bore Russian writing. The arms were discovered by Scottish troops from the Black Watch Battle Group at As Zubayr. Lt Angus Watson, who was in charge of the platoon which found the explosives, said: �There�s enough to kit a brigade. �It makes you wonder what chance UN inspectors had of finding anything damning in a country this big.�
We thought Pootie-Poot's objection to war was a noble jesture, not old Europe just pulling a CYA
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 09:24:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Many in the pro-Bush, pro-war crowd feel they are distinguishing themselves apart from the anti-war crowd by assembling under the banner of 'supporting our troops.' However, it has been my experience that most everyone--regardless of whether or not they support the war--supports our men and women in uniform. In fact, I've yet to hear one anti-war activist claim otherwise. On the contrary, while attending a large anti-war protest in Seattle last month, I noticed an overwhelming amount of pro-troop messages on display, much of it taking form in the manner of "Support Our Troops: Bring Them Home" banners and signs. This being so, why does the so-called 'Support Our Troops' movement feel the need to rally under a bogus cause that doesn't adequately set them apart from their opposition? It's simple: because their true passion--supporting war--doesn't attract as many people, nor does it cast them in the same moral light as the peace activists. It would be difficult for anyone, especially god-fearing Bush loyalists who typically claim high moral ground, to organize a large-scale rally in support of humankind's most destructive expression of hatred and ignorance. So the whole 'Support Our Troops' farce is merely invoked as a means to attract numbers and delude themselves into believing they are engaged in a pure and noble endeavor. You can easily test my assertion by attending a 'Support Our Troops' rally with a 'Support Our Troops: Bring Them Home' banner. Notice how quickly you are shunned, booed, or otherwise ostracized from the group. You will see that your support isn't welcome. The 'Support Our Troops' crowd isn't gathering to support our troops; rather, it is gathering to support Bush and his radical, extremist agenda. Worse yet, the 'Support Our Troops' crowd is almost pathologically bent on silencing dissent. They will actually tell you, with a straight face, that the peace activists are anti-American traitors. Even though the anti-war crowd has repeatedly expressed its support of the troops despite its opposition to war, the pro-war fanatics have repeatedly demonstrated their inability to support speech they don't agree with. You will never see a pro-war demonstrator supporting the anti-war protesters' right to free speech and assembly. You'll never hear one of them say "I don't agree with the peace marchers, but I support their right to march." On the contrary, every pro-war person, when given the opportunity, has criticized and ridiculed those voicing dissent -- and that is the most dangerous form of anti-Americanism.
NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 08:37:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 08:36:50 (EST)

My two cents are: There is also a collateral damage picture of bloodied Iraqi child for those needing another sip of blood.
sip, sip
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 03:30:19 (EST)

My two cents are: You ready to send Poe out to Iraq, are you?
beats working in a cafeteria?
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 01:11:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, Glint, that's what I meant. I knew you'd be glued to alJazeera once there were corpses aplenty.
enjoy!?
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 01:08:52 (EST)

My two cents are: MORE BLOOD FOR OIL!!
Cheyney, Halliburton, oh Snippy, and the oildboys
- Monday, March 24, 2003 at 01:07:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Help keep the working stiff employed. Hire someone to steam clean carpets instead of being a cheapskate and doing the job yourselves.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 22:11:56 (EST)

My two cents are: The Pincher wanted to impress Pete by posting from an Internet cafe. Bet he grinned and giggled the whole time while typing, thinking "Boy, ain't Pete going to be surprised." Fact is, Pete's been posting from airport cafes for years. Pete, how may times have you posted from LAX alone?
Glint
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 21:45:54 (EST)

My two cents are: "Have they found the WMD in Iraq?" - Anonymous@00:06:31. Yes.
Glint
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 21:40:21 (EST)

My two cents are: "Hey Glint-Carnage Photos!" I get all I need from Aljazeera.net. No holds barred photo spreads there. The polling information is proabably pretty interesting as well, at least for those who can read Arabic.
Glint
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 21:37:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Big news day in the struggle freeing Iraq. Had to do my part to support our troops in the field and our economy at home. Bought a clothes washer and a carpet steamer both. Had to plough that first, smaller, tax refund check back into the economy. (01)
Glint
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 21:32:43 (EST)

My two cents are: If the American victory is swift, Bush will have done our work for us, removing the hated Saddam and opening the way for a decent Islamist government. Even better, in 2004 Bush may actually win an election. Who can guess what that swaggering, strutting little pouter-pigeon will then get up to, and what resentments he will arouse, when he finally has something to swagger about?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 21:08:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe they're just a little cautious, seeing how much they benefited from being liberated by Daddy Bush the first time 'round.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 19:20:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Can't believe that someone actually believes our survival depends on getting rid of the evil dictator in Iraq. So far haven't seen Iraqi people helping fight for their freedom. Ok to spill America's blood but they won't contribute a drop of their own during this war. Are you sure they really want to be liberated?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 18:50:42 (EST)

My two cents are: �Everybody was predicting they�d be welcomed as liberators, but it�s working out differently,� said one senior Arab official in the gulf. �The Americans had a hard day today.�
A Hard Day's Fight?
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 18:26:31 (EST)

My two cents are: One group of Iraqi boys on the side of the road smiled and waved as a convoy of British tanks and trucks rolled by. But once it had passed, leaving a trail of dust and grit in its wake, their smiles turned to scowls. "We don't want them here," said 17-year-old Fouad, looking angrily up at the plumes of gray smoke rising from Basra. He pulled a piece of paper from the waistband of his trousers. Unfolding it, he held up a picture of Saddam, showing the Iraqi leader sitting on a throne with a benign smile. "Saddam is our leader," he said defiantly. "Saddam is good."
Ahh ... the satisfaction of liberating the masses!
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 18:16:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Perle had plans to invade Iraq from way before Daddy's War.
Perle's Iraqi wetdream sucks
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 17:14:57 (EST)

My two cents are: "If you take a response to 9/11 as being a driving force of the American approach to international affairs, I would strongly argue that one of the greatest assets that came out of that was the extraordinarily rich and powerfully diverse coalition against international terrorism.' That coalition, according to Cook, has now been shattered on the altar of pre-emptive diplomacy. America has long planned to attack Iraq and splits in the UN, Nato and in the European Union were a price worth paying. 'Now, I'm not an American politician but if I was I would be inveighing against the extent to which the Bush administration had allowed that terrific asset to disintegrate,' Cook said. 'Instead the US is left embarking on military action from a position of diplomatic weakness, unable to get any major international organisation to agree with it. We are heading for a very serious risk of a big gulf between the Western and Islamic world. That seems to me to have thrown away a powerful asset for the US, which could have helped its number one security concern.'
sset bush pissed away
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 17:13:55 (EST)

My two cents are: I think that Bush was too hasty to enter the war and should have sought a new UN resolution, however I accept the decision. If there had been more inspections, some progress might have been made, but that's irrelevant now.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 17:11:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush been runnin' down my country, an' he's walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
runnin' down and ruinin'
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 17:08:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush was to enter the war and should have sought a new UN resolution, however I accept the decision. If there had been more inspections, some progress might have been made, but that's irrelevant now.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 16:05:39 (EST)

My two cents are: "When you're runnin' down my country, man, you're walkin' on the fightin' side of me."
Merle
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 15:14:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Special Force Operatives from CIA vidoetaped Saddam and his leaders entering the bunker. Got positive ID from Langley that Saddam, his sons and most of the Military inner circle was there. Stealth bombers dropped two 2,000 lb. bombs on the bunker chimney while special ops identified the target with lasers immediately to position 30 Tomahawk missiles on the complex. No one could have survived the attack not even in a safe. Video was taken of Saddam with a gas mask over his face dug out of the complex. Everyone killed inside Saddams sons and all top generals. Deputy Iraq Prime Minister Tarik Aziz holds emergency meeting the next day making frantic cell phone calls to remaining Saddam/Baath Party leaderhip officials. Minutes later they show up wanting to know what has happened. Langley triangulates the desperate cell phone calls from Ambassador Aziz and sends 20 Cruise Missiles through the roof. Baath Party political Leadship terminated. CIA is leaving electricity and telephone lines up for as long as there is surveillance advantage to be gained tapping their sources electronically. Only two Iraqi top Military/Political officials known to have survived- Public Relations Spokesperson for the Defence Department and Minister of Defence Lt. General Sultan Hashem Ahmed. The Iraqis have not dug out the rest of the bodies yet except for Saddams
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 15:06:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, Pensioner, we figured you couldn't stay away from the forest fire here. Anyway, we aren't over in Iraq to make girlfriends, just kill as many hornets in the nest as possible. WE may be doing this kind of extermination for a while. In my view, this is a small phase in the overall WWIII started on 9/11. This will expand and get nastier before it gets better. It is us or them. You are with us or not. Just ebcause you got jaded in the earlier world chess match doesn't mean there are bigger minds at work laying out the framework for survival. Your type of "opinion" is no different than the gnats who infest the protesters. Sure, no one WANTS war. Duh, but it is sometimes essential to lay the groundwork for our survival. But to protest it while troops are fighting life and death is wrong. Go ahead and enjoy your social security. You probably earned it anyway. One of a hand full of demonrats, perhaps. Sip that pina colada. Oggle those pre-pubescent puffies. We know where you are coming from. Over the hill. Sunset, hacienda. Sad, really.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 14:40:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, Glint, I only mentioned the internet cafes for Pete�s benefit. He was confused that I had posted, as you�ll see if you scroll down. Rube. But you never answered my questions about why war and killing make you cum and maybe it�s none of my business. I just think it�s pretty twisted, especially when you consider that you have counterparts all over the world cheering the deaths of US Marines at the hands of the people Snippy has gleefully liberated. Not to mention the mounting, predictable friendly fire deaths. I�m beginning to get the impression that the Iraqis despise Saddam but equally despise US/UK presence in their country. This may confuse you but it�s really not that hard to figure out unless you�re a rube (and you are.) See, it�s kind of like good Americans despising what the Invasion Monkey, Snippy, is doing while being sickened at the deaths of those troops and those we�ve liberated to death with our WMD. Or, to put it terms you might understand, loving America but hating so many of your fellow Americans, who express their justifiable outrage at Snip�s warmogering. See, it�s my impression that you really only like America for the beer on Friday and Homecoming in Lincoln. Oh, and the killing. Can�t forget the killing. Time to go back to the beach.
Pensioner
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 14:25:01 (EST)

My two cents are: When Clinton led America into war (with no casualties) the GOP refused to back him, saying "We support the troops but not this president."
all depends who's buying or selling
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 13:35:26 (EST)

My two cents are: it's like our jismhead friends -- somehow it escapes them that a towering deficit and huge joblessness is um like baaaaad.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 12:53:27 (EST)

My two cents are: He's too stupid to notice?
bring back daddy bush
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 12:52:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Misery loves company?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 11:48:33 (EST)

My two cents are: This is Bush's plan ...to destabilize the world. But why?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 11:31:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh yes, the tea-sipping Republican women were SO concerned about the Taliban treatment of women in Afghanistan. About as concerned as they are right now.
Ann Thrax
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 10:04:55 (EST)

My two cents are: More Madness: BBC Report that U.S Patriot Missile Shot Down British Plane. The Bush Cartel Needs to be Impeached Before We are All Killed by Their Sheer Incompetence. Sunday, March 23, 2003 Support BuzzFlash When America Breaks Your Heart Get Your News First. Sign Up for BuzzFlash Alerts. U.S. Soldier Detained in Kuwait Attack for Grenade Attack on Our Forces. More Madness. Report of a Downed U.S. Plane in Baghdad. We Hope It's Not True. 3/23 Secret Bids: Companies, Including Big GOP Donors, Invited to Vie for Iraq Contracts BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! NOW, MORE THAN EVER. BuzzFlash Depends Upon You to Expand Our Resources. We are Completely Reader Supported! We are THE Pro-Democracy UnDrudge Report for Peace, Justice, and the American Way. Alleged Photos of Iraqi Casualties (Very Graphic). Also Worthy of Note. These Photos are Being Broadcast by Al-Jazeera to the Arab World. 3/23
Hey Glint-Carnage Photos! See what your tax dollars are doing! Death to ragheads! Whatta rush!
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 10:03:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Kurdistan has much to lose from any regime change, whether a Ba'athist or a US-backed government in Baghdad, or an external actor like Turkey imposes this change. The Kurdish groups have a number of expectations that they will pursue in a post-Ba'athist Iraq, which do not include full independence or control of oil fields. Initial indicators suggest that the KRG will be left alone to manage its own affairs following a possible change of regime. If, as appears likely, the USA splits Iraq into three administrative sectors - north, centre, and south - Washington insiders consider it likely that the northern US administrator will employ a light touch in his dealings with the self-reliant KRG. In keeping with their long history of betrayal, the Kurdish groups clearly do not consider a new war between the US and Iraq to be the end game, but merely the beginning of a new chapter. The KRG could provide a model for Iraqi development, but if Kurdish expectations are not met, the stability of any new Iraqi government would be undermined from the outset.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 02:55:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Best we not be firing those WMD into Iran.
even though they be next on the list
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 00:50:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Have they found the WMD in Iraq?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 00:06:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course women are much better off in Afghanistan now.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 22:57:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, really, WOW, no kidding, really, there were human rights violations in Iraq? Well, DUH, jismhead! What a frickin' surprise! Are we not SO glad you're finally waking up out of your lifelong human rights coma? Yo, talk about SHOCK AND AWE!
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war22.html
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 22:06:09 (EST)

My two cents are: "Treatment of women: A 1990 decree allows men to kill female relatives in the name of honour with no risk of punishment. Uday Hussein's militia practices beheadings. Dozens of women accused of prostitution were beheaded in October 2000 with no judicial process. One was an obstetrician whose real crime was believed to be criticising corruption in the health service."
Let's send over Hillary
Iraq human rights dossier: main points - Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 21:59:20 (EST)

My two cents are: No, asshole, where were you when Bush senior was fucking over the Kurds? Where were you when the Shah of Iran's Savak secret police was torturing people in his prisons? Don't try to get on the humanitarian bandwagon at this late date, liar. We all know that you're just spouting the usual propaganda crap, all the crap that the invasion lemming sheeple swallow wholesale every day.
we'd happily invade North Korea if there were oil there. have they found any yet? <bushist logic: Iraq = Alaska>
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 21:54:28 (EST)

My two cents are: "Sen. Daschle Encouraged by War's Progress" The Associated Press Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said he is encouraged by the progress of the war in Iraq but is not sure how long it will last. "We are encouraged that things are going so successfully," Daschle said. Daschle's comments came Friday after President Bush briefed Daschle and the rest of the congressional leadership on the war's progress at the White House.
If Tommy's for the war, then so am I
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 21:32:00 (EST)

My two cents are:

What do you mean "where was the Shah or Iran ten years ago?" I guess he was dead. The droning peanut farmer fu©ked that one up good. - Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 21:15:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Poor little protesters who think they're rotting in jail. Maybe they should try one of their idol Saddam's incarceration facilities. We are seeing people at their stupidest at these demonstrations. Completely clueless utter morons. The grunt end of humanity.
Glint
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 20:48:21 (EST)

My two cents are: little late for peace marches
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 19:53:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Peace marchers rally across United States - - - - - - - - - - - - By Tara Burghart March 22, 2003 | NEW YORK (AP) -- Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators, spanning 30 blocks, marched down Broadway on Saturday as part of a fresh round of cross-country protest against war on Iraq. Military backers also showed their support with flags and "USA" chants. Carrying peace signs and wearing costumes, demonstrators in New York streamed toward Washington Square Park. Unofficial police estimates put the crowd at 120,000 or more; United for Peace and Justice, the organizers of the march, estimated the crowd at more than 200,000.
blood for oil, anyone?
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 18:10:57 (EST)

My two cents are: The President lacks legitimacy, so how can anything he does have legitimacy?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 17:57:24 (EST)

My two cents are: ZAGREB, Croatia - Chafing at its inclusion on the Pentagon's list of coalition countries, Croatia's president denounced the U.S.-led war in Iraq on Thursday, saying it "lacks legitimacy" and could therefore set a dangerous precedent.
It's a ploy. They're just holding out for the $ame deal Lithuania got.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 17:34:53 (EST)

My two cents are: >
WTF?
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 17:29:24 (EST)

My two cents are: SHOCK & REVULSION: World Movement Fights Back Borrowing a page from the nightmare of the Vietnam War when a U.S. commander explained that U.S. soldiers were burning a peasant village in order to save it from communism, the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal have decided to burn Baghdad to save it from the current Iraqi Government. The world is in a state of Shock and Revulsion as the murderous Bush Administration follows through on its promise to "Shock and Awe" the Iraqi people by dropping thousands of bombs and missiles on their capital, a city that is home to 4.5 million human beings. This horrific unprovoked attack on a dense urban area must be understood as one of the extreme terrorist acts of modern times. Cruise missiles launched from submarines and air craft hundreds of miles away and 3,000 lb. bombs dropped from 30,000 ft. up are the latest example of the Bush administration's criminal resort to limitless violence and terrorism in order to achieve its objectives of conquest and occupation. The hypocrisy of the war against Iraq is extreme: the most powerful military in the world waging first strike war with the most advanced weapons against an impoverished country on the pretext that it someday may possess such weapons. The world has entered a new phase. The Bush Administration is hell bent on world domination. The war on Iraq was meant to signal that the U.S. use of raw military power will be the means to create a new era of Empire. Iraq was to be a stepping stone on this path of conquest. To the shock of the warmakers, their plans have ignited a world movement of opposition and solidarity. For months this movement has delayed and restrained the war plans for Iraq. Bush and Co. have lost all legitimacy and they are isolated. The people's movement has deprived them of the any threadbare claim to legality. Today our hearts are today filled with both anger at the war and sadness for the suffering people of Iraq who are enduring this unprovoked terrorist attack. But sadness and grief should be coupled with a profound understanding that the sudden emergence of a new global movement offers the best and only hope that the U.S. government's plans for militarism, war and domination -- the doctrine of endless war -- can and will be overcome. In the days ahead we must intensify the struggle against this cruel war.
blood for oil, anyone?
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:31:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, you're so upset about Saddam's abuse of human rights . . . now that we're going in to get his oil. Where were you ten years ago? Where did you stand on the Shah of Iran? Can you name other countries where there's abuse of human rights? Have you ever really given a shit about human rights?
spare us your crap
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:24:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Are we planting WMD's yet?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:22:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War By Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch March 21, 2003 As the first bombs rain down on Baghdad, CorpWatch has learned that thousands of employees of Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, are working alongside US troops in Kuwait and Turkey under a package deal worth close to a billion dollars. According to US Army sources, they are building tent cities and providing logistical support for the war in Iraq in addition to other hot spots in the "war on terrorism." While recent news coverage has speculated on the post-war reconstruction gravy train that corporations like Halliburton stand to gain from, this latest information indicates that Halliburton is already profiting from war time contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Cheney served as chief executive of Halliburton until he stepped down to become George W. Bush's running mate in the 2000 presidential race. Today he still draws compensation of up to a million dollars a year from the company, although his spokesperson denies that the White House helped the company win the contract. In December 2001, Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, secured a 10-year deal known as the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP), from the Pentagon. The contract is a "cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity service" which basically means that the federal government has an open-ended mandate and budget to send Brown and Root anywhere in the world to run military operations for a profit. Linda Theis, a public affairs officer for the U.S. Army Field Support Command in Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, confirmed for Corpwatch that Brown and Root is also supporting operations in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Georgia, Jordan and Uzbekistan. "Specific locations along with military units, number of personnel assigned, and dates of duration are considered classified," she said. "The overall anticipated cost of task orders awarded since contract award in December 2001 is approximately $830 million."
why, that's quite a lot of money!
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:21:35 (EST)

My two cents are: 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."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:17:18 (EST)

My two cents are: France now joins the fight because, lo and behold, the fucker does have chemical weapons and is using them.
duh
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:16:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Bob Arnot reporting that envelopes with white powder were confiscated from Iraqi soldiers with instructions on how to distribute Antrhax. The instructions also told the soldiers to assume civilian clothing and mix in with the population, the confiscated material was promptly sent to a US Military lab for authentication.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:15:09 (EST)

My two cents are: The only ignorant fools are those who think that by appeasing tyrants, dictators and socialist evil, we will ahve peace. No, you idiots are the real problem. Public Enemy #1. Toodles.
Pete�
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:12:08 (EST)

My two cents are: One French and two American journalists were killed after crossing the border with Iraq into Nasariyah, Central Command reported Saturday. No names and affiliations were given. A third American was injured. Centcom in Doha says a total of six journalists have been killed. Two British ITN reporters in Umm Qasr were killed by Iraqis after passing a checkpoint. An apparent car bomb killed an Australian cameraman and at least four other people Saturday at a checkpoint near a camp of a militant group linked to al Qaeda. Also Saturday, ITN television news reported that three members of one of its news crews were missing after coming under fire en route to Basra in southern Iraq.
so much for the "civilized" Iraqis/terrorists
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:10:31 (EST)

My two cents are: September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows condemns unconditionally the illegal, immoral, and unjustified US-led military action in Iraq. As family members of September 11th victims, we know how it feels to experience "shock and awe," and we do not want other innocent families to suffer the trauma and grief that we have endured. While we also condemn the brutality of Saddam Hussein's regime, it does not justify the brutality, death and destruction being visited upon Iraq and its citizens by our own government. What others may view as a policy decision, we see clearly as the murder of innocent people. Death among the civilian population in Iraq will be immediate: the result of bombing that kills indiscriminately. Especially at risk are the children who make up 50% of Iraq's population. Death will also come later, from malnutrition and disease caused by the interruption of vital relief services and the destruction of infrastructure for supplying food and medicine. More deaths will occur years from now, as a result of the horrendous environmental impacts of waging war using lethal contaminants such as depleted uranium, a substance banned by the European Union. We are also concerned about this war�s consequences for America's military personnel, brave women and men who enlisted to defend our country, only to find themselves sent to fight an unjust war of aggression. Our prayers are with them and their families, and our hopes are that they will return soon. Meanwhile, American citizens will bear the staggering costs of military action and the resulting reduction in spending on domestic infrastructure and social programs. We assert that Congress's lack of accountability for this war is a serious threat to our Democracy. We call on the House and the Senate to fulfill their Constitutional roles, both as representatives of the public will and as a check against the abuse of power by the Executive branch. And we call on them to defend America from all of the threats�economic, political, and military�that gather against it. This war will not make America safer. On the contrary, it has already resulted in heightened anti-American sentiment around the world, and is likely to promote further terrorist attacks, not just today, but years from today. It will not protect American families from another September 11th Therefore, members of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows will continue to oppose this war
sept 11 families for peaceful tomorrows
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:10:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes little warrior. Grab a beer, sit back, enjoy the war via TV while perched on your safe island.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:06:36 (EST)

My two cents are: You really are ignorant if you can't distinguish the difference in supporting troops sent to do administration's bidding and disagreeing with an oil hungry president.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:02:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, Glint, look! It's a patriotic Fornigator, properly censored for civility. Death to the Traitors!

Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:01:59 (EST)

My two cents are: The best news is the more the demonrats expose themselves as sick perverted atheistic traitors on all issues, the more they marginalize themselves and move further and further away from ever gaining any power in government again. Soon, it will be all over for this sickness. Hallelujah! Off to watch the liberation and the demise of the liar party!
Pete�
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 16:00:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Typical for a traitor to use the words of grief from a dead Soldier's family to support their form of treason. The man who died would not have done so. You show no respect. You are traitors. Support the troops or go to Hell.
Pete�
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 15:44:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush has higher poll numbers in Southern Iraq than he does in San Francisco.
Pete� <[email protected]>
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 15:42:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Jeez, the Iraqis can't even defend themselves. One would think they would use some of those WMD the Bush administration say they have. Angry enough and one would think they would attempt taking everyone down with them instead of just trying to survive.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 15:34:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Baltimore Marine Dies In Chopper Crash Victim's Father Has Strong Words For Bush POSTED: 4:14 p.m. EST March 21, 2003 UPDATED: 11:48 p.m. EST March 21, 2003 BALTIMORE -- One of the first American casualties in the war against Iraq is a Baltimore man, and his family shared their feelings about the war Friday. WBAL-TV 11 NEWS first broke the news Friday afternoon that a Baltimore man is among a group of Marines killed in a helicopter crash inside Kuwait that happened late Thursday night. He is identified as Marine Staff Sgt. Kendall Waters-Bey, 29, (pictured, right), of northeast Baltimore, WBAL-TV 11 NEWS reported. He is based out of Camp Pendleton in California and leaves behind four younger sisters and a 10-year-old son who lives in Baltimore. "It's sad that this war is going on and that we have to lose so many people over nothing. I can't bring my brother back, but I really miss him," one of the soldier's sisters said. WBAL-TV 11 NEWS reporter Noel Tucker spoke with the Marine's father who lives in northeast Baltimore where friends and neighbors were seen sobbing in the streets, sharing their grief with the family. The family spoke with WBAL-TV 11 NEWS Friday afternoon and shared their feelings against the war. As he held a picture of his son, Waters-Bey's father, Michael, (pictured, left), said: "I want President Bush to get a good look at this, really good look here. This is the only son I had, only son." He then walked away in tears, with his family behind him. Kenneth, the Marine's only son, was with the family, (pictured, below right).
no blood for oil
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 15:26:09 (EST)

My two cents are: War protesters not too thrilled about their night in S.F. jail They say police were rude, food and bedding inadequate Anti-war protesters emerged tired, hungry and, in some cases, tearful Friday after being held overnight in a San Francisco jail. They weren't exactly treated like royalty but said they would be willing to get arrested again. Most of the 1,400 demonstrators arrested by police Thursday were cited and released either later in the day or Friday on misdemeanors, including blocking traffic, unlawful assembly and disturbing the peace. Five people arrested on Thursday and one on Friday face felony charges, most of which involve battery on a police officer. They will be arraigned Tuesday. "Our interest is to distinguish between those (who) practice civil disobedience and those intent on violence and destruction. The latter will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," said Mark MacNamara, spokesman for District Attorney Terence Hallinan. Those who were released Friday whooped it up as they reunited with their friends outside San Francisco County Jail on Seventh Street. A group of women hugged and cried. Many declined to give their real names [cowards] as they ate hot cereal and drank tea provided by supporters. "I'm free -- no charges, no papers. Bonjour, mon ami!" exclaimed one man in a bright yellow sweatshirt. Protesters were less pleased about how they had been forced to spend the night. "We understand that we were not on vacation, but it was unacceptable the way we were treated," said a protester who gave her name as Pancetta, 24, of Berkeley. Some arrestees said that their hands had been bound too tightly and that police had ignored their complaints. Brian Henderson, 19, a UC Santa Cruz student, said police had used "scare tactics" on a protester who wouldn't give her name, including threatening to withhold bathroom privileges. "That is not right," Henderson said. Overnight, some protesters slept fitfully on the ground in small holding cells that housed 25 each. Others slept on mats with blankets in a gymnasium. Some women were addressed by deputies as "little girl" or "hon," one protester said. They griped that their requests for water or food were ignored or delayed for hours. When they did get fed, they got cheese or peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches that didn't taste great. "They didn't give us any water at all," said a woman who wished to be identified as Venus, 23, of Berkeley. "One (deputy) looked at me and turned away, and another said, 'I just got on duty, I don't know about water.' " Chris, 25, of Berkeley said their complaints were met by derision by deputies, who said, "This is what you get for protesting. Next time, don't protest."
crybaby traitors
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 15:12:27 (EST)

My two cents are: So what?
duh
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 14:48:50 (EST)

My two cents are: President Bush calls it a "crusade," a war against a new kind of evil.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 14:46:35 (EST)

My two cents are: 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."
chew on this you scumbag traitors
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 14:27:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes Glint, all dictators are socialsits and all socialsits are dictators. Explains reality. They are still Public Eenmy #1.
Pete�
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 14:21:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Your high pie for today.
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 12:09:11 (EST)

My two cents are: "An Iraqi woman welcomes U.S. Marines, as soldiers enter the southern border city of Safwan, Friday, March 21, 2003."
This is what the peaceniks are trying to stop.
Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 11:53:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like more people are getting fucked up protesting, bitching and moaning than have been killed in the war.
that's the way it should be.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 11:40:35 (EST)

My two cents are: "U.S. hits al-Qaida targets in N. Iraq" WASHINGTON, March 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles began hitting positions for suspected al-Qaida organization, Ansar al-Islam in northern Iraq Friday. The attack, which began at midnight in northern Iraq would be one of the first strikes on al-Qaida target in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Talabani, reading from electronic reports from PUK military command in Suliminiyah, said the strikes were focused on the northern Iraqi cities of Biyara and Tawela, where PUK forces had surrounded the Ansar al-Islam encampments. Talabani said the PUK forces were arrayed in offensive positions surrounding the group poised for "mopping up and cleaning up." He added, "It is our mission to obliterate this group."
That sounds like a war on terror. I thought Tommy D@$$hole said it was about failed diplomacy?
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 11:35:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Furious Arabs protest invasion of Iraq - - - - - - - - - - - - By Mort Rosenblum March 21, 2003 | AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Furious Arabs stormed Middle Eastern streets Friday, screaming ``Death to America'' and demanding vengeance for the invasion of Iraq. Gunfire in Yemen killed three people outside the U.S. Embassy. About 30,000 people assembled after prayers in the ancient Yemeni city of San'a and marched several miles to the embassy. Riot troops in armored cars held them off with water cannons, tear gas and, finally, live ammunition fired into the air. Witnesses said a teenage boy was shot dead by a police bullet, and a security official who asked not to be named said a policeman was killed by a protester. Premium Benefits Download Salon's latest music mix full of great artists like Linda Thompson, Steve Earle, Chumbawamba and more Free audiobook of Jonathan Franzen's book of essays "How to Be Alone" 6 month subscription to Mother Jones magazine Get Salon's headlines delivered to your e-mail address Salon Daily Download text or pdf Give the gift of Premium for only $20 Premium Help Log Out The official Yemeni news agency Saba reported late Friday that two demonstrators had been killed, but gave no details. The security official said seven other policemen were wounded, and at least 30 demonstrators were overcome by gas. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh expressed regret for the casualties and ordered an investigation. In a statement, he said people had the right to express their opinions, but ``what happened damages and harms security and the nation.'' Saleh stressed he also opposed the war. In Beirut, Lebanon, Grand Ayatollah Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah used his Friday sermon to denounce both the United States and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. ``We call on the Iraqi people to topple the tyrant who has destroyed Iraq and thrown the Arab and Islamic world into disarray,'' said Fadlallah, a Shiite. But, he added, he rejected ``Iraq's occupation by the arrogant powers, particularly America.'' In a statement faxed to The Associated Press, the Iraqi Communist Party, in exile, blamed both Saddam and Bush for what it said was carnage to come. ``There is no doubt about the dictator's grave responsibility,'' it said. ``But this does not exclude the U.S. responsibility for the harm, the human and material damage that will befall our people.'' In Amman, 4,000 Palestinians jammed into a mosque courtyard to hear Hamza Mansour, a cleric leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, urge them to fight back with car bombs and martyr themselves to Allah. Riot troops pumped tear gas into three crowds of stone-throwing youths in Amman, including one turned away from the Israeli Embassy. ``The Americans are targeting not only Iraq but also our nation, our dignity, our holy land,'' Mansour told the chanting, cheering crowd. Behind him on a stage, young men set alight American, British and Israeli flags. A large American flag was spread on the ground at the entrance gate where thousands of feet trampled it to tatters. In a television address, King Abdullah II said, ``I know the pain and anger you are feeling because of the suffering and ordeal that the Iraqi people are suffering,'' but he urged his subjects to act in ``a civilized manner.'' Meantime, Amman police entered a downtown mosque and took away two imams who delivered fiery sermons, worshippers said. About 10,000 angry protesters surged through Cairo, the Egyptian capital, after Friday prayers. Police beat them back with riot sticks and water cannons, leaving several streaming with blood. In his sermon, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, the grand sheik of Al-Azhar Mosque, called for jihad _ holy war _ to support Iraqis. ``Jihad in Islam is meant to defend ... those subject to injustice,'' he said. ``We have to support and defend the people of Iraq.'' A smaller violent protest erupted in Bahrain, and a crowd of Palestinians marched from al-Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, Syria, carrying portraits of Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat. The largest demonstration was in Yemen, where an estimated 30,000 chanting protesters converged on the U.S. Embassy to demand that Americans leave their country. Security forces fired automatic rifles into the air to stop their advance. At least two people _ one demonstrator and one policeman _ were killed by stray bullets. Some Arab voices blamed Saddam Hussein for crippling Iraq and unsettling the region, but most of them nonetheless opposed the American invasion. Violent messages in the streets were echoed in calmer assessments by a number of academics and analysts. ``People are very angry about this invasion,'' said Labib Kamhawi, who teaches political science at the University of Jordan. ``In the end, extremists will congratulate George W. Bush for unleashing terrorism.''
extremists will congratulate snippy for unleashing terrrorism--thanks for helping with national security, butcher boy!
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 11:35:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Article 8 War crimes 1. The Court shall have jurisdiction in respect of war crimes in particular when committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes. 2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means: * (a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention . . . . * (b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts: * (iv) Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated; * (v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;
FYI
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 11:29:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Shut up, asshole. You know nothing about the Kurds, just as you knew nothing about the Taliban prior to 9/11. It's your boy who's the Stalinist, just itching for a purge.
butcher of baghdad sends bomby kisses to osama--I'll help you form your Caliphate!
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 11:27:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 11:26:18 (EST)

My two cents are: The palaces and military complexes in the heart of Baghdad which are under attack are many blocks long and wide. No butchery, just precision strikes against a Stalinist dictator. That's what really sticks in the Liberals craw. They've never met a dictator they didn't like.
Glint
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 11:21:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Borrowing a page from the nightmare of the Vietnam War when a U.S. commander explained that U.S. soldiers were burning a peasant village in order to save it from communism, the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal have decided to burn Baghdad to save it from the current Iraqi Government. The world is in a state of Shock and Revulsion as the murderous Bush Administration follows through on its promise to "Shock and Awe" the Iraqi people by dropping thousands of bombs and missiles on their capital, a city that is home to 4.5 million human beings. This horrific unprovoked attack on a dense urban area must be understood as one of the extreme terrorist acts of modern times. Cruise missiles launched from submarines and air craft hundreds of miles away and 3,000 lb. bombs dropped from 30,000 ft. up are the latest example of the Bush administration's criminal resort to limitless violence and terrorism in order to achieve its objectives of conquest and occupation. The hypocrisy of the war against Iraq is extreme: the most powerful military in the world waging first strike war with the most advanced weapons against an impoverished country on the pretext that it someday may possess such weapons. The world has entered a new phase. The Bush Administration is hell bent on world domination. The war on Iraq was meant to signal that the U.S. use of raw military power will be the means to create a new era of Empire. Iraq was to be a stepping stone on this path of conquest.
shock & revulsion --thanks to the bush baby, butcher of baghdad
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 09:08:26 (EST)

My two cents are: "Fears expressed for 'shield'" The whereabouts of a Japanese "human shield" endangering lives by trying to maintain Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's dicatorship are unknown, Foreign Ministry officials said Friday. Although 30 Japanese, including the man, are known to be in Baghdad, the ministry has not been able to get in touch with him.
The kind of erson P.T. Barnham lived for.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 03:05:47 (EST)

My two cents are: What an idiot. Blix and his team couldn't find boil on his own fart horn.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 02:57:54 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix yesterday said Iraq violated its agreement with the United Nations if the missiles it fired at American troops were Scuds.
Shut up you fucking dime late dollar short asshole and go back to France!
So, Bush was right all along. IRAQ is in material breach. - Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 02:55:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Takin' out the trash!

Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 02:52:20 (EST)

My two cents are: HOME | News Email This Story Print This Story SF Police Find Cache Of Molotov Cocktails POSTED: 1:11 p.m. PST March 21, 2003 UPDATED: 8:53 p.m. PST March 21, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco arson investigators removed 12 Molotov-type cocktails on Friday from a backpack discovered by a groundskeeper cleaning up debris left by anti-war protesters in a downtown alley way. The investigators carefully removed the homemade devices -- consisting of old liquor bottles filled with gasoline and having a wick -- and fingerprinted them.
Keep those prints on file for later. Treason's still a hanging offense.
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 02:41:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Conscripts shoot their own officers rather than fight London Times - UK, by Tom Newton Dunn Original Article Posted By:ID10T, 3/21/2003 7:47:15 PM IRAQI conscripts shot their own officers in the chest yesterday to avoid a fruitless fight over the oil terminals at al-Faw. British soldiers from 40 Commando�s Charlie Company found a bunker full of the dead officers, with spent shells from an AK47 rifle around them.
Maybe we should start blowing out the brains of Stalinists here who support Saddam's reign of terror!
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 02:37:16 (EST)

My two cents are: In your particular circumstance, "anonyous" 20:26, it's not your spotted dresses but rather your POTted dresses people ar talking about.
Glint
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 02:07:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Now that I am ensconced firmly on the inside lining of the bubble it is my task to shepherd the lucky ones still in orbit. One of my consultants poked his head in on his way to the airport. He was returning to his home in Buenos Aires for the weekend. We got to talking about travel, comparing notes on flights to the southern hemisphere, and the fearful travelers cowering on the mobile terminals five hours at a time. Which brought me to the subject of Rio and a certain purveyor of the finer 30¢/hour internet cafes. He assurred me that Rio is a friendly town full of nice people and not to worry about the pie faced Pincher.
Glint
- Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 01:46:54 (EST)

My two cents are: All this obsessive behavior. If it's not spotted dresses it POT, cottage cheese.
poor babies, therapy might help
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 20:26:23 (EST)

My two cents are: If the dress fits, oh POTted one.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 20:02:55 (EST)

My two cents are: If the dress fits, oh POTted one.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 20:02:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Poor baby, you never gonna get over that dress obsession?
like a baby with a pacifier, can't give it up
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 18:04:30 (EST)

My two cents are: "PoWs to be stripped in suicide bomb fears" American forces amassing on the Kuwait border were told yesterday to strip injured prisoners of war naked before loading them on to evacuation helicopters amid concern that some could be suicide bombers strapped with explosives.
should probably wrap them in plastic to keep the smears to a minimum
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 18:00:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Dr. Sagan also explained the google. Next to one a billion is just a drop on the dress.
Glint
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 17:58:10 (EST)

My two cents are: White House could seek as little as $40 billion or as much as $100 billion to pay cost of war. As Carl Sagan would say, billions and billions and billions......
master charge or visa?
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 16:56:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Golly gee willicker! Ever heard of a place called an internet cafe? Well, I have, since I've been in hazy Rio. They got them here, whadda ya know? Yep now I can pinch my online loafs while Harlan gets Clintonized by the local E's.
Pincher
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 16:27:21 (EST)

My two cents are: What do you mean "ever hear of internet cafes?" What are you some kind of rube?
Glint
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 16:19:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Interestingly, "Fox News" seems to have zero international presence. Sure, I can watch the mugging on CNN, BBC, Italian Cable News, German Cable News, but without the wisdom and insight of Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, how can I be sure I'm getting the real story? I guess, Fox decided everybody in any other country would see "Fox News" as a lame rival for Comedy Central (which is international, along with TNT, Nickolodean, Classic Movie and just about every other cable outlet.) Bye.
Pensioner
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 15:51:42 (EST)

My two cents are: By the way, good work shaming these sick pansies, numbers 12, 7, 18, et al. Ran into Harlan St. Wolf the other night. Fat guy. He was surrounded by about 5 teenage whores who were beautiful. Drunk as skunk on cheap Brazilian sugar cane liquor.
Pensioner
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 15:47:22 (EST)

My two cents are: I am in Rio and loving every mintute of it. Ever hear of internet cafes? And I get to watch the mugging, if I'm bored, on the Clinton News Network. Interesting that shitheads like Glint and Pete, pussies, can even call it a war. See, chidren, a War, or a "fight" is when you stand a chance of getting hurt. All Snippy is doing is jumping Iraq, like some other criminal is going to smack Glint on the head with a 2x4 one fine day. All jocularity aside, why does this thing give you poor fucks such big hard-ons? I'd really like to know. But, I probably won't bother to check back until I return week after next. This Internet cafe is cheap as hell, about $3 for ten hours. But I'd rather spend the time playing soccer with piece of dogshit and the $3 bucks on useless Brazilian lottery tickets. Ciao.
Pensioner
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 15:43:49 (EST)

My two cents are: More blood for oil!
halliburton's lip-smackin' contract
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 15:39:06 (EST)

My two cents are: We are in a Nation Ruled by Madmen Who Will Bury the U.N. BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL Before announcing a state of war Bush pumps his fist and boasts, "Feels good." Donald Rumsfeld walks around quoting Al Capone. Richard Perle calls an internationally respected journalist a terrorist for disclosing how Perle would profit from an Iraq war. And then Richard Perle celebrates the death of the U.N. Like it's yet unleashed Guernica-bombing campaign, touted as "Shock and Awe," the brazen, thuggish extremism of the Bush administration is meant to numb the American public into numbed submission.
numbed submission? suits me fine, love, Osama
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 15:37:04 (EST)

My two cents are: The unification of the Muslim world has begun.
gleeful Osama, actual enemy
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 15:35:38 (EST)

My two cents are: The bombing of Dresden has begun.
dresden? china?
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 15:34:46 (EST)

My two cents are: No doubt about it � . Administration would love to rid themselves of anyone who disagrees with their imperialistic goals. You should be over there helping the marines plant the U.S. flag on Iraqi soil.
oil rules
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 13:39:29 (EST)

My two cents are: The next election will settle the score for these treasonous demonrats once and for all. They will be soundly defeated and sent back to their sewers permanently. Its about time.
Pete�
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 13:32:39 (EST)

My two cents are: No, cowardly anon, the next targets are the demonrat liars like you. Traitor.
�
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 13:16:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Among supporters of the war, nearly 80 percent say they support both the troops and the president's policy, while 20 percent say they support the troops, but oppose the policy. At the same time, the number of people who "strongly" support the war, 53 percent, far outstrips the number of "strong" opponents, 18 percent. Partisanship is still a striking feature of views of this conflict. Ninety percent of Republicans support the war; that declines to 73 percent of independents, and drops further to 51 percent of Democrats. And 84 percent of Republicans say this was the right time to attack; just 43 percent of Democrats agree.
more evidence of treason from the mutherfuckin liebrals
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 13:15:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe they'll appreciate Bush, the new ruler. Next on the agenda is Iran, then Syria, then ?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 13:12:23 (EST)

My two cents are: ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press Writer SAFWAN, Iraq - U.S. Marines hauled down giant street portraits of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in a screeching pop of metal and bolts Friday, telling nervous residents of this southern Iraqi town that "Saddam is done." Milling crowds of men and boys watched as the Marines attached ropes on the front of their Jeeps to one portrait and then backed up, peeling the Iraqi leader's black-and-white metal image off a frame. Some locals briefly joined Maj. David "Bull" Gurfein in a new cheer. "Iraqis! Iraqis! Iraqis!" Gurfein yelled, pumping his fist in the air. "We wanted to send a message that Saddam is done," said Gurfein, a New York native in the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. "People are scared to show a lot of emotion. That's why we wanted to show them this time we're here, and Saddam is done." The Marines arrived in Safwan, just across the Kuwait border, after Cobra attack helicopters, attack jets, tanks, 155 mm howitzers and sharpshooters cleared the way along Route 80, the main road into Iraq (news - web sites). Safwan, 375 miles south of Baghdad, is a poor, dirty, wrecked town pocked by shrapnel from the last Gulf war (news - web sites). Iraqi forces in the area sporadically fired mortars and guns for hours Thursday and Friday. Most townspeople hid, although residents brought forth a wounded little girl, her palm bleeding after the new fighting. Another man said his wife was shot in the leg by the Americans. A few men and boys ventured out, putting makeshift white flags on their pickup trucks or waving white T-shirts out truck windows. "Americans very good," Ali Khemy said. "Iraq wants to be free." Some chanted, "Ameriki! Ameriki!" Many others in the starving town just patted their stomachs and raised their hands, begging for food. A man identifying himself only as Abdullah welcomed the arrival of the U.S. troops: "Saddam Hussein is no good. Saddam Hussein a butcher." An old woman shrouded in black � one of the very few women outside � knelt toward the feet of Americans, embracing an American woman. A younger man with her pulled her away, giving her a warning sign by sliding his finger across his throat. In 1991, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died after prematurely celebrating what they believed was their liberation from Saddam after the Gulf War. Some even pulled down a few pictures of Saddam then � only to be killed by Iraqi forces. Gurfein playfully traded pats with a disabled man and turned down a dinner invitation from townspeople. "Friend, friend," he told them in Arabic learned in the first Gulf War. "We stopped in Kuwait that time," he said. "We were all ready to come up there then, and we never did." The townspeople seemed grateful this time. "No Saddam Hussein!" one young man in headscarf told Gurfein. "Bush!"
the lying sack of shit liberals are going to ahve to find soemthing else now to lie about Bush
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 12:59:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Washington envisions radical change in world order after war with Iraq Thu Mar 20, 5:14 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - Washington sees the war on Iraq as the first stage of a radical change in international order, including acceptance of the concept of "preventive war," the "reshaping" of the Middle East, and a reshuffling of traditional alliances. Many US officials close to the so-called "neo-conservatives" now moving to the fore in President George W. Bush 's entourage have long seen the Iraqi conflict as inevitable and have been working toward redrawing the world political map. This school of thought, the object of heavy criticism both abroad and in liberal American circles for its unilateral tendencies, wants to put the United States at the center of a new post-cold war order, unshackled from the inherited burden of treaties and international institutions. Its most noted proponents are vice President Dick Cheney , Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz. Numerous advisors in the White House, Pentagon and State Department also share that vision of a new world order. Even Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), a reputed moderate long wedded to classic multilateralism, has in recent months evolved in this direction, notably talking of a "reshaping" of the Middle East. Bush has on numerous occasions bolstered the voices of the neo-conservatives, notably in rejecting the Kyoto Protocol (news - web sites) on global warming , and in pulling out of the US-Russian anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in order to pursue his anti-missile shield plans. In January 1998, 18 noted Republicans, half of whom today hold top posts, had already sent an open letter to then president Bill Clinton proposing the the course of action his predecessor has now taken against Iraq. The 18 urged Clinton to "enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the US and our friends and allies around the world. "That stategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime from power," said the letter. They also urged that US policy on Iraq not be shackled by the United Nations , a policy today being embraced by Bush. US officials see three main new concepts coming into play: -- The idea of "preventive war," put forth by Bush last year as a central pillar of US defense against threats from terrorist-friendly "rogue states" like Iraq, Iran and North Korea . -- the reshaping of the Middle East, or the so-called theory of "democratic dominos," which assumes the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime will trigger a move toward democracy in other countries of the region, and, notably, facilitating peace between Israel and the Palestinians. -- New alliances. Figuring that major institutions like the United Nations and NATO have demonstrated their limitations, and disappointed by traditional US allies like France and Germany, Washington wants to develop "coalitions of the willing," more pliable, less restrained and more inclined to rally around the United States. Tried out with the "anti-terrorist coalition" formed after the September 11 2001 attacks, this idea is getting legs today with the "coalition for the immediate disarmament of Iraq," serving as the international mantle of support against Iraq that Washington sought but failed to get from UN Security Council. Many foreign officials and commentators began Thursday, the morning after the war on Iraq began, to denounce Washington's "unilateralist vision," fearing the conflict was proof only of a desire to dominate, to the detriment of the United Nations. "The word 'empire' has been used fairly often as a metaphor to convey the global scope of American interests and of American military, economic and political influence," said Leon Feurth, advisor to former US vice president Al Gore . "After the conquest of Iraq, however, it can be fairly argued that we shall have created not a figure of speech but a concrete reality."
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 11:07:15 (EST)

My two cents are: "doddering," you spelling-impaired invasion lemming.
lets take more money away from education so the morons start conflicts because they need to kill Osama, but they can't find him, so another towelhead will do just fine
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 10:00:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh yes, it was Iraqis in those planes, was it?
how stupid is too stupid, you invasion lemming?
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 09:58:13 (EST)

My two cents are: We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy. � U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, Aug. 12, 1945. Will Bush be impeached? Will he be called a war criminal? These are not hyperbolic questions. Mr. Bush has permitted a small cadre of neoconservatives to isolate him from world opinion, putting him at odds with the United Nations and America's allies. What better illustrates Mr. Bush's isolation than the fact that he delivered his March 16 ultimatum to the U.N. concerning Iraq from an air base in the Azores, where there was no prospect for massive demonstrations against his policy. Standing with Mr. Bush against the world were Britain and Spain. The U.S., once a guarantor of peace, is now perceived in the rest of the world as an aggressor. Its victim is a small Muslim nation unable to defend its own air space, much less to project power beyond its borders. If Iraqis attempt to resist invasion, they will be slaughtered. On the eve of Mr. Bush's ultimatum, it came to light that a key piece of evidence used by the Bush administration to link Iraq to a nuclear weapons program is a forgery. Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has asked the FBI to investigate the origin of the forged documents that the Bush administration used to make its case that Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. Secretary of State Colin Powell denies that the Bush administration created the phony documents. "It came from other sources," Mr. Powell told Congress, but he could not identify the source. As George Santayana said, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it." The administration's use of forged evidence opens Mr. Bush to unflattering comparisons that his enemies will not hesitate to make. They will point out that it was Adolf Hitler's strategy to fabricate evidence in order to justify his invasion of a helpless country. He used S.S. troops dressed in Polish uniforms to fake an attack on the German radio station at Gleiwitz on Aug. 31, 1939. Following the faked attack, Hitler announced: "This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our own territory." As German troops poured into Poland, Hitler declared: "The Polish state has refused the peaceful settlement of relations which I desired, and has appealed to arms." The German High Command called the German invasion of Poland a "counterattack." Thanks to his neoconservative cadre, outside the U.S. Mr. Bush is now a disliked and distrusted politician. Mr. Bush's enemies will exploit parallels to "naked aggression." After many decades of U.S. leadership in building an "international order," Mr. Bush's enemies will hold him accountable for his defiance of this order.
this from the moonie paper--war crimes, impeachment for Georgie Boy
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 09:56:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Has the dottering old Wally Crankcase forgotten about 911, or is that what he's referring to when he says "sorry?"
Glint
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 09:56:13 (EST)

My two cents are: As the war against Iraq begins, the US may have a far more formidable challenge with Iran, should war in the region spread. Three times the size of Iraq in both size and population, Iran's army is reported to be 450,000 strong. "Western naval analysts are perhaps most concerned about Iran's five submarines, which given the constricted nature of the waterways in the region could close ship lanes," writes Peter Grier in Air Force Magazine.
now what, georgie boy
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 00:52:00 (EST)

My two cents are: "We are going to be in such a fix when this war is over, or before this war is over. Our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for this war. I look at our future as, I'm sorry, being very, very dark." --Walter Cronkite
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 00:42:02 (EST)

My two cents are: President Bush has gone to great pains to document the undeniably tyrannical nature of Saddam Hussein's regime. Hussein, Bush has declared, is both evil and dangerous. And so war, Bush has said, is both justified and right. But on the question of legality, administration officials have simply asserted that existing Security Council resolutions adopted more than a decade ago authorize the attack. That assertion has gone largely unexamined by politicians and pundits alike. But, with the White House having pulled the plug on its disastrous attempt to secure a final resolution, a growing number of legal experts are now suggesting that the US may be waging a war in violation of international law.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 21, 2003 at 00:24:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Islamic countries lined up to attack the legitimacy of the war. There was a strong response from Iran, where the foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, was quoted by the Islamic Republic News Agency as saying: "American military operations on Iraq are unjustifiable and illegitimate." Mr Kharrazi stressed that Iran would not take action in the conflict "to the benefit of either side". Iran, along with Iraq and North Korea, forms part of the "axis of evil" identified by President Bush last year. Asian Islamic leaders addressed the press within minutes of President Bush's declaration of war, saying the US would pay a heavy price for the conflict. "This is not an attack on Islam but an attack on humanity," said Syafii Maarif, head of the 30-million-strong moderate Muhammadiyah Muslim group in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country. His views were echoed by Abdul Hadi Awang, the president of the conservative Islamic opposition in Malaysia, who said: "This despicable war exposes the ugliness of America and its allies."
grinning Bin Laden
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 22:48:44 (EST)

My two cents are: One reason was sheer American ineptitude in daily deriding the UN, its inspectors and anyone seeking peaceful disarmament. This swung world opinion against the much-desired �second resolution�, boosting Saddam and undermining Mr Blair. This destroyed the two pro-American coalitions forged after September 11, 2001 and again before last autumn�s Resolution 1441. Both were real achievements of British diplomacy, and Washington�s hamfisted wrecking of them will rank among the fiascos of international relations. Small wonder Mr Blair shuddered after condemning France when a backbencher referred to America�s 75 vetoes on Middle East resolutions. Washington received hardly a mention in his speech. This was suddenly a very British war. UN backing for a war was perfectly possible with tact and with time. It received neither. Instead the hapless Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, was rushed forward on Monday to refute almost all legal opinion and invent an eccentric interplay between resolutions 678, 687 and 1441 to deny the fact that last year�s coalition was forged on the explicit understanding that war was for the Security Council to determine. Knowing America�s intent, the Government would have been more honest to leave the UN in the gutter from the start. Instead it is sustained only on the broken-backed morality of Clare Short. The truth of this war emerged in Mr Blair�s most significant aside. He referred to Europe still needing to grasp the �psychological change� in America�s outlook since September 11. What he meant was that without it there would be no war. Yet he could not analyse the meaning of that change. The terrorist has been with us always, as have his bombs, agents, gases and plagues. What is eerily elusive is the true author of this new mayhem. Saddam is a mere proxy. As Mr Blair tacitly acknowledged, this is another bin Laden war. Osama bin Laden hovers over events in the Gulf as he hovered over Mr Blair�s dispatch box. History will surely rate this stateless psychopath as potent beyond all imaginings. He did not just kill 3,000 people. His single act entered so deep into US psychology as to traumatise its sense of security and well-being. He devastated the economy of a city, New York, and a whole country. He turned Americans in on themselves, fortifying their houses, buying gas masks, fearing dark-skinned foreigners and screaming at the sight of powder. He bankrupted their airline companies. He emptied their office blocks. He made them suspend habeas corpus. Bin Laden incited one war, of America against Afghanistan. He licensed another, the revived Palestinian suicide intifada and thus Israeli retaliation. He fuelled fundamentalist dissent in Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey. He made every American and Briton in the Middle East fear for his life. Then early last year the unthinkable became thought, an all-out American war on the quiescent Saddam lest he �might� form an alliance with the Scarlet Pimpernel bin Laden. By an act of psychological transference, fear of bin Laden became fear of Iraq. Washington and London suddenly found themselves expecting attack from bin Laden and, by proxy, Saddam. Tanks raced back and forth to airports. Bunkers were built. Tourists were driven to stay at home. War became a matter of �self-defence�. Britain and America have now allowed bin Laden to goad them to a conflict that has divided the West more fiercely than the Soviet Union ever did during the Cold War. Bin Laden has split Europe. He has reawakened �ugly American� diplomacy and reopened wounds between the New World and the Old. He has split Europe from America. He has split Russia from America. He has divided America within itself. He has made Iraq�s old friend, Jacques Chirac, a domestic hero unparalleled since de Gaulle. Bin Laden has left Nato inert as an alliance supposedly under threat. He has destroyed, possibly for ever, the ambition of a common European Union foreign and defence policy. He has also destroyed Tony Blair�s dream of one day leading it. He induced the British to treat the UN first as a validator of war, then as a disposable comfort blanket. Nor is that all. Nothing can be giving bin Laden greater pleasure than the spectacle of the West going to war to topple his hated foe, the �atheist Satan�, Saddam Hussein. Even in his wildest dreams, he cannot have imagined what has now come to pass, Saddam about to go and Islam radicalised against the West. In truth we all let this happen. We all capitulated to the terror of September 11. We all stayed at home, sold shares and bought gas masks. We let politicians pass repressive laws and peddle mendacious dossiers. We showed democracy vulnerable to attack and capitalism frighteningly so. Eventually diplomacy could not hold back the tide of vengeance. First in Afghanistan, now in Iraq, it threw in the towel and left soldiers to do their worst. It is a poor comment on the civilised West in the 21st century that its chief means of retaliation against terrorism is a declaration of war on whole peoples. I wondered if Mr Blair would yesterday resist the Hitler parallel. Sadly he could not. This is to be another war of analogies. Saddam�s arsenals are Hitler�s Holocaust. One day Mr Blair�s successors will doubtless cite September 11 as the basis for some new curb on civil liberties and free speech. I cheered the Falklands task force. I cheered the eviction of Saddam from Kuwait. I backed ground troops in Kosovo (though not the bombing) to stop, too late, a patent humanitarian disaster. I thought the war on Kabul foolish because it would make harder the location and elimination of bin Laden, as it did. This new Gulf war, at this time and in this context, falls into none of these categories. The catalyst is a state of mind to which one madman has reduced half the free world. Now Pandora�s box creaks open once again and out will jump the miseries, distempers and demons of war. We should remember what the ingenious Greeks left at the bottom of that box, a mistress called Hope. She did not escape. She remained �to assuage the lot of man�. Hope now pleads for a quick victory. Hope pleads for no gratuitous bombing. Hope craves a swift rebuilding of Iraq. Hope prays for the Palestine �road map� to be sincere. Hope longs for the UN to pick itself up and play a full role in a reconstructed Middle East. Hope wants this war to purge once and for all America�s September 11 trauma and rejoin the world community. Hope believes in America as a force for good in the world. Hope wants this war turned to good account. Hope hates the sound of bin Laden laughing. [email protected] One reason was sheer American ineptitude in daily deriding the UN, its inspectors and anyone seeking peaceful disarmament. This swung world opinion against the much-desired �second resolution�, boosting Saddam and undermining Mr Blair. This destroyed the two pro-American coalitions forged after September 11, 2001 and again before last autumn�s Resolution 1441. Both were real achievements of British diplomacy, and Washington�s hamfisted wrecking of them will rank among the fiascos of international relations. Small wonder Mr Blair shuddered after condemning France when a backbencher referred to America�s 75 vetoes on Middle East resolutions. Washington received hardly a mention in his speech. This was suddenly a very British war. UN backing for a war was perfectly possible with tact and with time. It received neither. Instead the hapless Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, was rushed forward on Monday to refute almost all legal opinion and invent an eccentric interplay between resolutions 678, 687 and 1441 to deny the fact that last year�s coalition was forged on the explicit understanding that war was for the Security Council to determine. Knowing America�s intent, the Government would have been more honest to leave the UN in the gutter from the start. Instead it is sustained only on the broken-backed morality of Clare Short. The truth of this war emerged in Mr Blair�s most significant aside. He referred to Europe still needing to grasp the �psychological change� in America�s outlook since September 11. What he meant was that without it there would be no war. Yet he could not analyse the meaning of that change. The terrorist has been with us always, as have his bombs, agents, gases and plagues. What is eerily elusive is the true author of this new mayhem. Saddam is a mere proxy. As Mr Blair tacitly acknowledged, this is another bin Laden war. Osama bin Laden hovers over events in the Gulf as he hovered over Mr Blair�s dispatch box. History will surely rate this stateless psychopath as potent beyond all imaginings. He did not just kill 3,000 people. His single act entered so deep into US psychology as to traumatise its sense of security and well-being. He devastated the economy of a city, New York, and a whole country. He turned Americans in on themselves, fortifying their houses, buying gas masks, fearing dark-skinned foreigners and screaming at the sight of powder. He bankrupted their airline companies. He emptied their office blocks. He made them suspend habeas corpus. Bin Laden incited one war, of America against Afghanistan. He licensed another, the revived Palestinian suicide intifada and thus Israeli retaliation. He fuelled fundamentalist dissent in Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey. He made every American and Briton in the Middle East fear for his life. Then early last year the unthinkable became thought, an all-out American war on the quiescent Saddam lest he �might� form an alliance with the Scarlet Pimpernel bin Laden. By an act of psychological transference, fear of bin Laden became fear of Iraq. Washington and London suddenly found themselves expecting attack from bin Laden and, by proxy, Saddam. Tanks raced back and forth to airports. Bunkers were built. Tourists were driven to stay at home. War became a matter of �self-defence�. Britain and America have now allowed bin Laden to goad them to a conflict that has divided the West more fiercely than the Soviet Union ever did during the Cold War. Bin Laden has split Europe. He has reawakened �ugly American� diplomacy and reopened wounds between the New World and the Old. He has split Europe from America. He has split Russia from America. He has divided America within itself. He has made Iraq�s old friend, Jacques Chirac, a domestic hero unparalleled since de Gaulle. Bin Laden has left Nato inert as an alliance supposedly under threat. He has destroyed, possibly for ever, the ambition of a common European Union foreign and defence policy. He has also destroyed Tony Blair�s dream of one day leading it. He induced the British to treat the UN first as a validator of war, then as a disposable comfort blanket. Nor is that all. Nothing can be giving bin Laden greater pleasure than the spectacle of the West going to war to topple his hated foe, the �atheist Satan�, Saddam Hussein. Even in his wildest dreams, he cannot have imagined what has now come to pass, Saddam about to go and Islam radicalised against the West. In truth we all let this happen. We all capitulated to the terror of September 11. We all stayed at home, sold shares and bought gas masks. We let politicians pass repressive laws and peddle mendacious dossiers. We showed democracy vulnerable to attack and capitalism frighteningly so. Eventually diplomacy could not hold back the tide of vengeance. First in Afghanistan, now in Iraq, it threw in the towel and left soldiers to do their worst. It is a poor comment on the civilised West in the 21st century that its chief means of retaliation against terrorism is a declaration of war on whole peoples. I wondered if Mr Blair would yesterday resist the Hitler parallel. Sadly he could not. This is to be another war of analogies. Saddam�s arsenals are Hitler�s Holocaust. One day Mr Blair�s successors will doubtless cite September 11 as the basis for some new curb on civil liberties and free speech. I cheered the Falklands task force. I cheered the eviction of Saddam from Kuwait. I backed ground troops in Kosovo (though not the bombing) to stop, too late, a patent humanitarian disaster. I thought the war on Kabul foolish because it would make harder the location and elimination of bin Laden, as it did. This new Gulf war, at this time and in this context, falls into none of these categories. The catalyst is a state of mind to which one madman has reduced half the free world. Now Pandora�s box creaks open once again and out will jump the miseries, distempers and demons of war. We should remember what the ingenious Greeks left at the bottom of that box, a mistress called Hope. She did not escape. She remained �to assuage the lot of man�. Hope now pleads for a quick victory. Hope pleads for no gratuitous bombing. Hope craves a swift rebuilding of Iraq. Hope prays for the Palestine �road map� to be sincere. Hope longs for the UN to pick itself up and play a full role in a reconstructed Middle East. Hope wants this war to purge once and for all America�s September 11 trauma and rejoin the world community. Hope believes in America as a force for good in the world. Hope wants this war turned to good account. Hope hates the sound of bin Laden laughing.
whats the sound of bin laden laughing?
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 22:39:58 (EST)

My two cents are: And don't take it to the cleaners. Leave the caked on evidence in place, just in case the boss lies and says you're dreaming.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 16:23:01 (EST)

My two cents are: But keep the smudgy blue dress just in case the employee on the job is trashed by the boss.
Bent PudBill
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 16:03:31 (EST)

My two cents are: At least make sure all recordings of the proceedings are destroyed.
Capt. Trickydick
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 15:59:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Speaking freely and having people record that speech are two entirely different things, unless you are a stoopid moron socialsit idiot demonrat.
Duh!
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 15:57:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from his speech Wednesday at an appearance where he received an award for supporting free speech. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030319/ap_on_go_su_co/scalia_media_ban_5
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 15:39:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Constitutionally legal. The rest doesn't matter when our interests are threatened by those who harbor terrorists bent on killing us for no good reason.
Pete�
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 15:27:20 (EST)

My two cents are: "On October 16, the American President signed a Congressional resolution, which sanctions his authority to use any necessary force to dismantle Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction."
Sounds legal to me.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 15:12:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Rio is their kind of place today. Hazy, lazy, and dazy.

Take that Liberal scum!

- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 15:03:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, we can tell the difference. Viva la difference! The imposters always spout idiocy. they are programemd idiots. They cannot possibly spew anything BUT idiocy. (01)
Pete�
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:56:43 (EST)

My two cents are: This was a liberal setup all along. Done.

Take that Liberal scum!

- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:54:35 (EST)

My two cents are: SHAME ON BUSH. SHAME.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:39:41 (EST)

My two cents are: The anti-war movement has metamorphosed into the Anti-Bush movement, calling for immediate impeachment of the man who declared unilateral war on a sovereign nation, and ignored the will of the United Nations. "Shame on Bush" is the crowd's cry, as signs reading "No Blood for Oil" and "No Blood For Hubris" waved in the Chicago sky. Demonstrators turned out in tens of thousands, surprising not only broadcasters but also local police.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:37:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Besides, my posts are a code unto themselves. (01) (01) (01)
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:33:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't worry. Pete's immersed in "Match Game '73".
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:32:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Forthe record, I only say this: Anyone of any importance can know the truth of who posts this particular message when they see the (01). (01)
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:31:41 (EST)

My two cents are: As is 14:28:23. Pete, don't look until I tell you it's safe to come out. (01)
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:29:44 (EST)

My two cents are: True, but 14:27 was fake. (01)
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:28:23 (EST)

My two cents are: My bad. 14:24:50 was real. (01)
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:27:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Just for the record, the last four posts were false.
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:25:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Seems they couldn't be tempted from the safe perimeter at IAD, Pete. Cowards to the core, each with a 100% pur chiffon backbone. (01)
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:24:50 (EST)

My two cents are:

Buyer beware: 14:23 was also bogus. (01) - Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:24:37 (EST)

My two cents are:

Another false posting at 14:21. (01) - Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:23:11 (EST)

My two cents are:

Besides, the code was all wrong. (01) - Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:21:56 (EST)

My two cents are:

False posting under the "color of life" font, at 14:16. - Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:19:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Like Saddam's imposters, no doubt a Pete imposter.
Re-Pete� <[email protected]>
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:17:01 (EST)

My two cents are:

Pete, tune in to the Game Show Network. Quick! - Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:16:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Hopefully, Saddam IS dead. I seem to recall that we also first read here that Pete was leaving the board.
Dubious
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:11:14 (EST)

My two cents are: The House has voted to condemn a federal appeals court's ruling that the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional in public schools. The non-binding resolution states that the phrase reflects the religious faith central to the founding of the nation. The resolution passed 400 to seven. Fifteen voted present.
tell those 2 or 3 liberal idiot zen boodistz to shut the hell up
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 14:06:37 (EST)

My two cents are: So, Glint, are all the cowards in Rio? Did youe ver arrange a rendezvous post tryst dans l'aeropuerto?
Pete�
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:57:43 (EST)

My two cents are: "We are in communication with still more people who are officials of the military at various levels - the regular army, the Republican Guard, the Special Republican Guard - who are increasingly aware that it's going to happen, he's going to be gone," Rumsfeld said. The sources said U.S. intelligence suspected Saddam's sons, Qusai and Odai, may have been with him during the strike on a complex where Iraqi leaders were suspected of sleeping. Even if Saddam and his sons weren't killed, U.S. officials hoped the surprise attack would leave them distrustful of their inner circle, suspecting betrayal by one of their advisers. Officials said the surprise attack was the product of a complex operation that benefited from human intelligence, electronic spying, special military operations and changes in technology that permitted military chiefs to quickly reconfigure the cruise missiles for a special, pinpointed attack. The officials said the attack began with about three dozen cruise missiles that leveled the aboveground structures and which were followed up quickly by Air Force F-117 precision bunker-busting bombs that could penetrate deep into the leadership compound.

- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:56:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Earlier in the week there was a news story about a representative of Saddam being in Thailand shopping for diamonds. The idea was that he was trying to convert currency into some trade goods prior to bolting.
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:47:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Even Bangkok gets into the act. Go bangkok.com!!! Three Iraqi diplomats expelled Accused of wanting to harm US interests Post reporters Three Iraqi diplomats and eight Iraqi citizens are to be expelled from Thailand for ``security reasons'' which sources said may include plans to attack US targets in the country. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday admitted the expulsion of the Iraqi diplomats, saying the decision was based on security reasons and was part of intelligence cooperation efforts with the United States, which has threatened to strike Iraq unless Iraqi President Saddam Hussein steps down and goes into exile. Eight Iraqi citizens had also been put on the blacklist by the Immigration Police Bureau and their visas revoked after the National Intelligence Agency found that they could be involved in a plan to attack US interests in Thailand, a government source said. The NIA had told cabinet on March 4 about their suspicious behaviour. They entered the country to order machinery which could be adapted to produce arms once they reached the Middle East, the source said. Their whereabouts remain unknown. The decision to send home the diplomats came after talks on Monday between Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai and US ambassador Darryl Johnson. The next day the first secretary of the Iraqi embassy, Ali Mohammed, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry's Protocol Department to receive marching orders for the three. Iraq's three attache{AAC}s _ Samer Dawood, Satar Najim and Ghazi Purki _ will leave for Baghdad via Amman, the Jordanian capital, an Iraqi diplomat at the embassy said. A government source said one of them had already left the country but he did not know which one. Mr Samer was posted to Bangkok about two years ago and the other two joined the Iraqi embassy last year. Mr Thaksin said the decision was for the safety of the country. ``If any country finds that foreign diplomats conduct activities which pose security problems, it should remove those people,'' he said.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:39:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, Glint, just like typos and so-forth, flubbed lines and mispronunciations are fine so long as the truth adn substance are loud enough to drown out the sick, lying, thieving, dishonest, virtue-less, scumbag, treasonous, socialsit demonrats. Substance matters.
Pete�
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:37:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Gullible Golliwogs in the liberal media thought their hero was still alive. Ha!

Take that Liberal scum!

- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:34:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Saddam is dead. You heard it here first.
Pete�
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:32:37 (EST)

My two cents are: ....(except without her mustache). <> Agreed Pete. Another great speech by the president. Whatever happened to all the critcs who used to carp about flubbed lines and mispronunciations? Guess their headw got cold from being outside their asses for too long.
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:30:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Woah! Is that picture really from Saddam's press conference where they stuck a camera down into his hole? He looks just like Louise Jefferson!
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:28:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Saddam "Elvis" Hussein

Take that Liberal scum!

- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:19:01 (EST)

My two cents are: "There is something about �anti-war� (read that �anti-American�) demonstrators in a state university town that seems to especially anger the reasoned and informed mind. Is it the fact that the crowds of students and professors in Austin are more vociferous than they are in, say, San Antonio, Dallas, Waco or Fort Worth? Or is it their utter fatuity, their almost purely emotional motivation, their ignorance and stupidity?"

Austin Students, Profs Making Fools Of Selves - Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:13:44 (EST)

My two cents are: THE PRESIDENT: My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war. These are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. More than 35 countries are giving crucial support -- from the use of naval and air bases, to help with intelligence and logistics, to the deployment of combat units. Every nation in this coalition has chosen to bear the duty and share the honor of serving in our common defense. To all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces now in the Middle East, the peace of a troubled world and the hopes of an oppressed people now depend on you. That trust is well placed. The enemies you confront will come to know your skill and bravery. The people you liberate will witness the honorable and decent spirit of the American military. In this conflict, America faces an enemy who has no regard for conventions of war or rules of morality. Saddam Hussein has placed Iraqi troops and equipment in civilian areas, attempting to use innocent men, women and children as shields for his own military -- a final atrocity against his people. I want Americans and all the world to know that coalition forces will make every effort to spare innocent civilians from harm. A campaign on the harsh terrain of a nation as large as California could be longer and more difficult than some predict. And helping Iraqis achieve a united, stable and free country will require our sustained commitment. We come to Iraq with respect for its citizens, for their great civilization and for the religious faiths they practice. We have no ambition in Iraq, except to remove a threat and restore control of that country to its own people. I know that the families of our military are praying that all those who serve will return safely and soon. Millions of Americans are praying with you for the safety of your loved ones and for the protection of the innocent. For your sacrifice, you have the gratitude and respect of the American people. And you can know that our forces will be coming home as soon as their work is done. Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly -- yet, our purpose is sure. The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. We will meet that threat now, with our Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines, so that we do not have to meet it later with armies of fire fighters and police and doctors on the streets of our cities. Now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply decisive force. And I assure you, this will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome but victory. My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail. May God bless our country and all who defend her.
All Hail The Chief!! <Let'[email protected]>
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:11:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Check recent Dixie Chicks sales. I have put my CD of wide open spaces into the drawer until they personally apologize to our Commander in Chief and/or demonstrate that they are not hypocritical traitor liberal sympathizers. These dumb sh*ts have no clue about politics or international relations. Hell, they are from "Dixie" as inbred as they come. Just looka the pregnant barefooted cross-eyed girl. Would you ask her for anything mroe than whether she likes rasberry jam on her morning bagel? What a typical group of liberal know-nothing idiots. Spouting off some idiotic feel-good nonsense. Thank God the adults are in control. //PS: Aloha crynic. Looks like Md. might go places this March madness. At least on my pick sheets.
Pete�
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:05:14 (EST)

My two cents are: "Protester chains himself to wrong building" OLYMPIA -- On Tuesday, Jody Mason mistakenly padlocked himself to the Washington State Grange building in an act of civil disobedience directed at the federal government. He thought the address belonged to the U.S. Department of Energy. The Grange is a nonprofit group that advocates for citizens in rural areas. Mason spent about 18 hours Tuesday chained to a door until Grange employees informed him he had the wrong building. Mason was cut loose by officers with heavy-duty bolt cutters because he didn't bring a key.
At least he's not dumb enough to walk into a moving bulldozer
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 13:02:10 (EST)

My two cents are:

Concert at the school last night. Was pleasing to see the band director's way of supporting our president. There were no "French horns" in the program - only "Horns." Naturally, "Freedom Horns" would have been better but does anyone really think a member of the teachers' union would get away with anything close to that? Anyhow, no Brenda sightings to report. This was a band and orchestra concert - the choir didn't sing. Sorry, no new pics to post of nature's most curious creations. - Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 12:52:27 (EST)

My two cents are: The bulldozing of Ditzie Chicks memorabilia doesn't bother me any. If I was concerned to the point of feeling compelled to participate, I would download some of their songs from the napster-like Kraftwerk feed, burn a 3¢ CD. Then I'd toss it into the pile after writing the band's name on it using a Sharpie. But it doesn't, so I haven't and probably won't.
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 12:35:52 (EST)

My two cents are: See? Nothing to worry about. Go back to sleep.
Snippy
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 11:35:28 (EST)

My two cents are: "N. Korea Stymied On Plutonium Work Reprocessing Lab" North Korea appears to be having trouble restarting a nuclear reprocessing facility that would separate plutonium for weapons from spent fuel rods, according to administration officials with access to recent intelligence. The Bush administration had been bracing for the reclusive communist regime to time the start-up of the facility to coincide with the war with Iraq. But despite feverish activity that can be observed around the site, officials believe the North Koreans have been stymied in their rush to begin creating the raw material needed for nuclear weapons. "They are working 24/7," a senior administration official said.
Why don't they ask France to help?
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 11:33:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, you shouldn't be dismissive of conservatives who like to obsess over Hollywood.
A conservative who likes to obsess over Hollywood
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 11:31:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Hollywood V. Hollywood. A splash in the fish bowl. The real treason comes from the mouth of Tommy D@$$hole and his reptillian ilk. Trying to dig his own grave using his mouth.
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 11:25:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Travis is so mad he's buying Dixie Chicks CDs just to smash 'em.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 11:19:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Travis Tritt � CD: Strong Enough; Released: September 24, 2002; Amazon.com Sales Rank: 9,720 / Dixie Chicks � CD: Home; Released: August 27, 2002; Amazon.com Sales Rank: 3
But he was 9,840 just a week ago!!
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 11:16:08 (EST)

My two cents are: HIRAM, Ga. � Singer Travis Tritt blasted fellow country singers the Dixie Chicks for criticizing President Bush, and said it's time for celebrities to start supporting the military troops in Iraq. "The bottom line is ... what's going to happen is going to happen. To be a good American � regardless of which side you're on � you have to get behind President Bush. More important, you have to get behind the troops," the singer said recently. Tritt also had some stern words for Dixie Chicks leader Natalie Maines, who during a recent concert in London said, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." "I think the comments were made primarily because it was in front of an audience that agreed with them," Tritt told Fox News on Tuesday. "But I think if you make those statements over there versus over here it is sort of cowardly and I think it was a cheap shot." The Grammy-winning Dixie Chicks have repeatedly apologized for the statement, but Tritt said he has another idea for how they could make up for the anti-Bush statement. "If the Dixie Chicks really wanted to do something to prove just how sorry they are about those statements, they would volunteer to go and perform at some military base," suggested Tritt. Several radio stations in the nation have decided to boycott the Chicks, whose album Home recently won a Grammy. After more than 250 listeners called Friday to complain about Maines' comments, WTDR-FM in Talladega, Ala., dropped the Dixie Chicks. "We've had a huge listener reaction and movement against the statements," said Paul Williams of KPLX-FM in Dallas-Fort Worth, the nation's fifth-largest radio market. Many celebrities, such as Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon, have spoken out against the impending war with Iraq. Tritt says hearing celebs criticize military action hurts soldiers' morale when they are putting their lives on the line for the United States "The last thing in the world that those people need to hear is every time they turn on the television or every time they turn on the radio is some half-cocked entertainer coming off and making statements against the actions that they're over doing under the direction of our commander-in-chief," Tritt said. As for people who have strong feelings about a celebrity's remarks, Tritt has a suggestion for how Americans can make their voices heard. "The best way to get an entertainer's attention is to hit them in their pocketbooks," he said.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 11:12:08 (EST)

My two cents are:

Homeland security update. School cafeterias are being requested to ensure that they have several days worth of canned peaches on hand, and school officials are requesting kitchen staff and other faculty members who take prescription drugs to keep a supply on hand in the nurse's office in the event that an extended school "lockdown" becomes necessary. - Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 11:01:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Yak! Yak! Yak! Fact is Bush plan has 71%, despite a minority of squeaky minds handing signs and falling from their bridges.
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 10:37:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Flowers in the Dark Winter of War By Jim Hightower, AlterNet March 17, 2003 The politicians don't want to think about it, the media establishment has turned a blind eye to it, and the Bushites are trying to shout it down � but it's rising anyway, getting bigger and bigger all across the country. The "it" is a burgeoning American peace movement, flowering beautifully in the toxic climate of Bush's increasingly strident irrational and petulant warmongering. Every week, there are tens of thousands of American marching in the streets, attending prayer vigils, protesting Bush and Cheney events, holding teach-ins, and otherwise doing the hard work of democracy, confronting the powerful as best they can. Yet, you don't hear about it. All you hear is the White House pounding the war drums, the political yak-show hosts frothing for war, and the Democratic leaders in congress meekly mouthing their support. The people, however, mostly are not swallowing it. When I say "the people," I don't just mean just the campus groups and peace organizations. Now they've been joined by the president of the AFL-CIO and several hundred thousand union members who are stoutly patriotic... and just as stoutly opposed to Bush's war. They are joined by the Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians, evangelical Christians, Catholic Bishops, and other church groups that are agressively organizing againsts George's Iraq Attack. They are joined by Mothers Against War, a mushrooming grassroots group that began in a living room in Massachussets. They are joined by a veterans group led by vets who were in the last war against Saddam, when George the Elder was president. They are joined by corporate leaders who oppose the madness. They are joined by Black Voices for Peace, which has launched a poor people's peace movement, just as Martin Luther King, Jr. did back in '68. If you are somewhere between doubtful and dismayed by the current rush to war, you are hardly alone. Join the rebellion. Visit www.unitedforpeace.org
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 10:32:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, just wait until he bombs Tel Aviv! That will really prove him to be the murderous thug everybody already knew he was anyway!
it's about time it all went up in smoke
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 10:27:58 (EST)

My two cents are: When will the war of liberation against the murderous Chinese thug anti-human rights regime begin?
loving the new liberation philosophy!
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 10:26:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Anyone else notice how Saddam played the Ishmaelite card in his bunker speech? Little quip at the end about the Palestinians? World's a better place already with him down in his hole waiting for the smoke.
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 10:24:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 10:24:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Did you mean "Saddamite" anti-dissenters, as in being against dissent just as Saddam is against dissent?
curious gerund
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 10:23:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Shut up, you Saddmite anti-dissenters.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 10:22:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 10:21:50 (EST)

My two cents are: I wish more anti-americans would put banners up on tall bridges and then tumble off. Either that or try to become human bulldozer shields. So far the death toll is highest among those trying to freely squeak their minds.
Glint
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 09:41:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Wonder if taking down Saddam would be of prime importance if Iraq's chief export were almonds.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 02:25:02 (EST)

My two cents are: I fell most sorry for the delusional idiot who posted the last two vomit episodes. That is real sickness.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 23:09:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't worry. Next on the list of human rights violators with weapons of mass destruction who are suckface tyrants whose country we will be invading in order to liberate are: China, Pakistan, North Korea, Libya, a whole bunch of African counties . . . just you wait. Oh sorry, fuck, none of them has oil. Oh well, never mind. We don't give a shit anymore. Well, ok, we never gave a shit.
quod erat demostrandum
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 22:52:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Urinefont for the urinewar. Might makes right, truth is trampled underfoot, Halliburton makes a hefty profit fixing what it broke, what's not to love?
george orwell is a fascist pig
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 22:47:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Ahhhh, the rockets red glare ...
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 22:47:16 (EST)

My two cents are:

It became clear the nation was finally going to war with Iraq this week when the New York Times pulled two dozen reporters off the Augusta National Golf Club story. In a speech to the nation on Monday night, President Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to get out of Baghdad, warning that the American military was poised to remove him forcibly. Many still held out hope that Saddam would abandon power without a fight, primarily so we could listen to liberals explain how a peaceful resolution was brought about by their urgent demands that we work through the United Nations, and had nothing to do with the fact that Saddam was surrounded by 200,000 American troops. In response to Bush's ultimatum, Saddam's son, Uday Hussein, said Bush was stupid. He said Bush wanted to attack Iraq because of his family. And he said American boys would die. At least someone is finding the New York Times editorial page helpful these days. In angry harangues largely indistinguishable from the one by Uday Hussein, the Democrats were also hopping mad at Bush. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., spent 40 minutes detailing Saddam Hussein's manifest cruelties and violations of all human norms. Without breaking a sweat, Lieberman then said he could understand why the French were not bothered by these indisputable barbarisms: It was Bush's failure of "diplomacy." Bush, the clod, had failed to convince the inconvincible. Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said: "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." Mostly, the Democrats were saddened that America was about to win a war. With the nation on the verge of a glorious military triumph, liberals have had to put their predictions of a Vietnam "quagmire" on the back burner for a few weeks. Instead, they have turned with a vengeance to attacking "American arrogance." The day after President Bush's speech, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius spoke of self-defeating "American arrogance." The Post quoted "a senior U.S. official" (in newspaper jargon: "a janitor at the Pentagon") who warned of "a degree of hubris unprecedented in American history." The New York Times' lead editorial on Tuesday also bemoaned American "hubris." One front-page article called Bush trigger-happy and another bitterly accused him of breaking a campaign pledge to preside over a "humble" America. In the 19 months since the 9-11 attack, the Times has used the phrase "American arrogance" nearly as many times (17) as in the entire 96 months of the Clinton presidency (24). Instead of American arrogance, the Times yearns for Clintonian flatulence. There was no more eloquent testimony to what liberals mean by "American arrogance" than an article in the March 10 New Yorker, which nonchalantly quoted a Nazi in support of the proposition that Americans are jingoistic, imperialist rednecks. Amid page after gleeful page of European venom toward Americans, Columbia University professor Simon Schama quoted the anti-American bile of Norwegian writer and renowned Nazi-sympathizer Knut Hamsun. Schama admiringly cited Hamsun's contempt for American boosterism, neglecting to mention that Hamsun went for Hitler boosterism in a big way. Beginning in the early '30s and until his death in 1952, Hamsun was absolutely smitten with Adolf Hitler. He exchanged gifts and telegrams with Goebbels and Hitler. Indeed, so enamored of Joseph Goebbels was he, that Hamsun gave Goebbels his own Nobel Prize medal. When the Nazis invaded Norway, Hamsun wrote a newspaper column saying: "NORWEGIANS! Throw down your rifles and go home again. The Germans are fighting for us all." Tearful upon news of the Fuhrer's death, Hamsun was quoted in an obituary on Hitler saying: "I am not worthy to speak his name." He never equivocated and he never apologized. While he issued tributes to Hitler, Hamsun wrote the ironically titled book "The Cultural Life of Modern America," which, as professor Schama sniggeringly writes, was "largely devoted to asserting its nonexistence." Hamsun called America "a strapping child-monster whose runaway physical growth would never be matched by moral or cultural maturity." It must have been a relief for Hamsun to find such genuine "cultural maturity" in Nazi Germany. Hamsun hated America for all the reasons liberals hate America. To the delight of New York sophisticates, Hamsun once sneered at pathetic Americans marching in veterans' parades, "with tiny flags in their hats and brass medals on their chests marching in step to the hundreds of penny whistles they are blowing." America's little patriotic parades apparently compared unfavorably to a stirring Nazi war rally. This is the essence of liberal admiration for Europeans and their pompous cultural snobbery. For proof that Americans are immature hicks in an ugly jingoistic mood, they cite a Nazi. - Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 21:12:22 (EST)

My two cents are: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A man protesting the looming U.S. war on Iraq fell to his death from San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge on Wednesday as he was hanging a banner, officials said. "He appears to have been hanging a banner of some kind," said California Highway Patrol officer Timothy Willock. "We're not sure if he decided to jump or slipped while he was, you know, hanging the banner. That's unclear right now." Anti-war sentiment is strong in the San Francisco Bay Area but the death of the man in his 30s was the first related to the latest protests over the U.S.-led war against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. � 2003 Reuters
1 less liberal traitor to deal with, and counting ...
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 18:50:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Get over it. You have more important things to cogitate. Such as what the high noon get out of town cowboy in the oval office will do next.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 18:13:56 (EST)

My two cents are:

These days, with wars against terror and rogue dictators seeking weapons of mass desctruction, we need a president with more substance than we had during the greedy 90's. The only substance Clinton expressed which has stood the test of time was that which wound up on a blue dress. - Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 17:49:28 (EST)

My two cents are: "More than five months after Congress redeclared war on Iraq, U.S. soldiers are about to enter the battlefield. Not everyone agrees that liberating Iraq is the right thing, or a wise thing, to do, but that is now a question for history to judge. The political debate is over--or it should be. A responsible political leader, whatever his view of the conflict, would say something to the effect of: Our troops are now in harm's way. Let us pray for their safety, and let's roll. So what in the world was Tom Daschle thinking Monday?... "
Glint
Tom Daschle and the Clinton Legacy - Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 17:44:11 (EST)

My two cents are: An Unproven Case, A Spurious War Joe Conason-- This is not to say that Saddam Hussein doesn�t deserve to be deposed, or that he may not have hidden some very dangerous chemical and biological weapons somewhere in his domain. While the Bush administration�s plans for a post-Saddam Iraq are murky, the idea of freeing the people of Iraq from hideous oppression appeals to every decent person. It is hard to imagine that whatever regime replaces him could be worse. The questions remain: at what cost and to whose benefit? The real price of the coming conflict, in blood and treasure, has been concealed rather than debated. While Mr. Bush spoke of the certainty of "sacrifice" of our own young people in uniform, he has barely acknowledged the terrible suffering likely to be inflicted on innocent Iraqis. The future price of the diplomatic misadventures that have led us to this moment, in ruined alliances and damaged institutions, cannot begin to be reckoned now. For the President and his political advisers, an easy victory promises better poll numbers and election prospects. For the American corporations that are already being invited by the Bush administration to bid on multibillion-dollar reconstruction contracts, such short-term gains may outweigh global problems on the distant horizon
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 17:16:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh faux Glint. If you were as concerned about this historical path our country is about to undertake as you are about Israeli bimbos, perhaps the sludge flowing from your pie hole would be reduced to just a painful ooze.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 17:02:50 (EST)

My two cents are: More sips of blood. Can't seem to get his fill.
sip, sip, sip
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 16:52:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Crynic, did you hear about the bimbo who tried to stop a bulldozer in Israel? Guess she never saw Soylent Green. Otherwise she would have understood the danger of tractors with front end loaders and, as a college student, would have been able to extrapolate the danger to include bulldozers. She might have made it too if it hadn't backed up after running over her the first time.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 16:34:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh sorry. "Traitor" Better now?
Glint
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 16:13:09 (EST)

My two cents are: and resolved, you fuckface.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 16:08:04 (EST)

My two cents are: He looked determined, sincere, and unapologetic.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 16:07:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Exile or war, he threatened the Iraqi regime: you have 48 hours to decide. But neither the staging of the President's address nor his manner matched those words. Rather than sitting behind his Oval Office desk, Mr Bush had chosen to stand at a lectern, between two flags. He was visually diminished by the upright comparisons. He looked pale (what had the make-up and lighting people been doing?) and diffident. His brow permanently furrowed, his eyes squinting, he fluffed lines. He could not settle on a constant pronunciation of even his chief adversary (Iraq or Eye-rahq, or Eye-rakk). Was this the sole superpower's Commander? In Chief?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 15:58:44 (EST)

My two cents are: "...the work of the weapons inspectors had been cut short..." Cut short? Duh, it's lasted eleven and one half years TOO LONG. The issue is compliance. Nothing more, nothing less. Simple compliance. Hussein ignored the resolutions, so now he must be erased. Nothing more, nothing less.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 15:39:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey Glint. Gotta admire your perserverance, but the odds are stacked against you. These traitorous peaceniks yap about giving peace a chance, diplomacy, and more stal tactics. Peace has had twelve long years. Hussein plays these liberals like the ignorant immoral dunderheads they are. Time to take control and oust this murderous tyrant. Time to take him down. Time to do what Cliton didn't have the balls to do. Hell, even E has the balls to make this no brainer call.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 15:36:13 (EST)

My two cents are: France, Germany and Russia condemn war threat Sarah Left Wednesday March 19, 2003 As British and US troops today prepared for an assault on Iraq, the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Russia condemned military action from the floor of the UN security council. All three countries expressed outrage that the work of the weapons inspectors had been cut short by the impending conflict. Despite insistence from Washington and London that France was to blame for the failure to secure a second resolution backing war, the harshest criticism came from Russia. The country's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, powerfully denounced the coming war, and said that no UN resolution had approved it. "Not one of these decisions authorises the right to use force against Iraq outside the UN charter. Not one of them authorises violent overthrow of a sovereign state," he said.
we'll violently overthrow any sovereign state we feel like--be cause we bushists are ABOVE THE LAW. <no blood for hubris.com>
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 15:12:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 15:09:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush is about to make Osama bin Laden's day Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2003 by vgdesign By PAUL WATSON, New Zealand Herald Somewhere in the mountains bordering Afghanistan, in a deep cave, heated and illuminated by generators, comfortably furnished with carpets and a few luxury goods, there most likely sits a very happy man. By now, word has reached him about President George W. Bush's ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. The "Sheriff from Texas" has given the bully-boy dictator of Iraq 48 hours to get out of town � or else. Finally, a year and a half after Osama bin Laden planted his horrific, fiery seeds in New York City, his plans are coming to fruition. What he has so long wanted, planned for, worked towards, and dreamed of, is coming to pass. The very idea of his enemy Bush striking down his enemy Hussein makes his day. >>
bushism giving aid and comfort to the enemy, Osama
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 15:09:06 (EST)

My two cents are: CRISIS SITUATION: George W. Bush is sealing the fate of the world. He has madly torn apart the international community, alienating our allies and buying off his feebly named "Coalition of the Willing." This is not the allied power that came together in World War II, and for good reason: this is a war that need not be fought. What more perfect a place for he and his two allies to gather than an island, far removed from the voices of the world that have resoundingly risen against them--and yet, still they rose. And what better way to avoid the awkwardness of hearing those voices than not even presenting his inane plan to the United Nations for certain defeat. The man has no ground to stand on, and he has no shame. He has only an island in his mind where he is ruler over a powerless fool. And that will never be enough. Smirking towards disaster, Bush smells oil, money, and the zany manifest destiny of a campaign for a new American Century. He is choosing to ignore the blood that will come with it. He is choosing to ignore the will of the world. YOUR MISSION: If the U.S. Attacks Iraq, Make Your Opposition Known! If the bombs do start falling, join with United for Peace & Justice and hundreds of other groups around the country and million of people around the world in organizing emergency protests. However you choose to express your opposition to war - from silent vigils to loud marches to nonviolent civil disobedience - get out on the streets immediately and join with millions around the world in demanding an end to the bloodshed. You can find ideas on what you can do here. For listings of events and rallies already planned to take place the day after a war begins, go here and find one near you or plan your own and list it online so others can join you. If Bush is hellbent on going to war and bombing the people of Iraq without ever trying for a real and peaceful solution, we must not be silent. The innocent people of Iraq running for cover from our cruise missiles certainly won't be silent.
ok lets kill some towelheads for their oil, so Saddam will be inspired to lend WMD to Osama, and let's attack Israel too why not?
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 15:04:18 (EST)

My two cents are: "Those Americans who opposed our going to war with Iraq, who wanted the United Nations to remove those weapons without war, need not apologize for giving voice to their conscience, last year, this year or next year. In a country devoted to the freedom of debate and dissent, it is every citizen's patriotic duty to speak out, even as we wish our troops well and pray for their safe return. Congressman Abraham Lincoln did this in criticizing the Mexican War of 1846, as did Senator Robert F. Kennedy in calling the war in Vietnam "unsuitable, immoral and intolerable." "This is not Iraq, where doubters and dissenters are punished or silenced --this is the United States of America. We need to support our young people as they are sent to war by the President, and I have no doubt that American military power will prevail. But to ensure that our post-war policies are constructive and humane, based on enduring principles of peace and justice, concerned Americans should continue to speak out; and I intend to do so.
ok its not Iraq, but the bushists are running it like the soviet union
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 15:01:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Will pie hole chartist Glint be learning to spell anytime soon?
raise spelling standards for amateur astronomers
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:54:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush's lies and deceit, of course, don't count.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:49:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Good. Please stay there.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:43:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Headline in Brazilian paper: Bush es Bisha (Bush is a queer!)
Pensioner
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:41:52 (EST)

My two cents are: And this from a guy who obsesses over transsexuals.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:37:30 (EST)

My two cents are: I only protest things which have a chance and that are virtuous. Like impeaching a dishonorable scumbag dribble root who lies and deceives the American people and under oath.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:31:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Hi ho, Crynic, our good man. Looks like the peaceniks are planning on abandoning their non-violent tactics. Good, I hope they like the taste of pepper spray!
Glint
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:25:27 (EST)

My two cents are: You've used it before?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:19:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Ouch. And throwing fuckface around willy nilly. At least give me a footnote for its use.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:15:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Shut up, fuckface.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:10:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Like it or not, we're all in this together. So put your stupid liberal pussy views away for awhile and support our troops doing the work that must be done. If you can't do that, it's not too late to hop a plane to the Middle East and be a human shield. I hear they've had a few no-shows. / / / E grew some balls? Never doubted her balls, it's her brain that's quEstionable.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:04:34 (EST)

My two cents are: CLEVELAND � Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from an appearance Wednesday where he will receive an award for supporting free speech.
par for the course
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 14:01:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Polls taken after President Bush's speech Monday night show 65 to 71 percent of Americans support going to war against Saddam's regime, even without the U.N.'s blessing. Surveys taken by the Washington Post/ABC News, MSNBC and the Wall Street Journal reflect growing support for Bush in excess of the usual patriotic bump a president gets before the outbreak of hostilities. For example, the Post/ABC News poll showed 71 percent support a war with Iraq, compared to 59 percent two weeks ago. Nearly 66 percent said they approve of the way Bush is handling the confrontation with Iraq, compared to 55 percent a week ago. The surge in support is coming mostly from Democrats who've come over to the president's position. The Post/ABC News poll found 60 percent of Democrats now agree with Bush, compared to 40 percent in early March. A majority of women (66 percent) also think Bush is doing the right thing.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 13:12:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Too bad they kicked the media out. They should make the first wave of human shields. Liberal jackasses that mind crontrol the populace falsely with their half-baked prejudices, whims and stoopid socialsit idiocies.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 12:50:09 (EST)

My two cents are: First shots fired at sea as allied battle plan unfolds - THE first shots of the war have been fired, killing at least one Iraqi during a suspected operation to mine the waters off Kuwait. But that opening skirmish is about to be dwarfed by the most formidable military assault in modern warfare: 250,000 British and American troops � backed by more than 1,000 aircraft, 400 tanks and a 110-strong armada � are poised to unleash their awesome power on Saddam Hussein�s Iraq the moment the order is given.
killed him dead!
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 12:02:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Nearly two out of three Americans polled approve of the way Dubya is handling Iraq. Imagine what his number would be WITH a BJ!!
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 10:46:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Here is the first of today's pie charts.
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 10:39:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Where in tarnation are the human shields? Don't tell me they chickened out? Bwaaak! Bwaaak! Bwaaaaaaaak!
Glint
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 10:32:43 (EST)

My two cents are: What, you've never heard of the coalition? You need to stop listening to Pacifist Radio. Question is, what to do with all the Iraqi soldiers once they begin surrendering in droves. Hope the ones that have been turned away so far, those who jumped the gun, won't be summarily executed by the Stalinist Saddam.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 10:26:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Wait--didn't that haole just support the socialist Blair? Omigodd!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 09:08:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Osama bin Laden is gloating like hell now. where will we be when WMDs get into his greasy hands? thanks snippy.
let's play right into his plans for world domination and the imposition of a caliphate
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 09:05:30 (EST)

My two cents are: The freedom and diversity we so cherish for others is strikingly lacking in our public discourse. We must not forget our traditions of challenge and dissent. For openers, we can invoke the injunctions of Theodore Roosevelt, the most red-blooded and manly of our presidents--if that is to be the litmus test for strong leadership. In 1918, ex-President Roosevelt challenged Woodrow Wilson's sweeping crackdown against dissent after the American entry into World War I. "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong," Roosevelt said, "is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
not according to the lemmings
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 02:11:01 (EST)

My two cents are: I think if it had been a family obsession, you know, if he was Captain Ahab and Saddam Hussein was the great white whale � we would have heard a lot more of this early on, and we just didn't," said Walter Russell Mead, a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.
he sounds as if he's a little bit of ahab and queeg
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 01:59:24 (EST)

My two cents are: MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Ending weeks of speculation, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar told Parliament Tuesday that Spain would not send combat troops to fight alongside the United States and Britain in the expected war on Iraq. "Spain will not participate in missions of attack or offense. There will not be Spanish troops in offensive attacks," Aznar said
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 00:10:54 (EST)

My two cents are: On the other hand, then God seems to swat those goddamned hubristic dickwads into preternatural dust, and ok then so mote it fuckin be, and so mote it be.
yowzah yowzah Bin frickin yowzha
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 23:41:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Sometimes the powers of total darkness seem to gain the upper so-called hand . . . . . .
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 23:36:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Sometimes the powers of total darkness seem to gain the upper so-called hand . . . . . .
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 23:36:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Phew. That's a relief. There's no way I was going in without Lithuania.
G.I. Joe
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 20:30:13 (EST)

My two cents are: HAHAHAHAHA!
Pensioner
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 20:14:35 (EST)

My two cents are: The initial military phase may go quickly. Iraq today poses far less of a military threat to American troops than it did in 1991, when the phrase "turkey shoot" came into popular use. The march to Baghdad-following massive bombing of the city and its inhabitants-will likely encounter little substantial opposition; as was true in the first Gulf War, far more U.S. troops will probably die due to cancer from their uranium-enriched arsenals than from any initial Iraqi attacks. But once U.S. troops reach Baghdad, there's major potential for bloody urban warfare, followed by a protracted occupation
let the blood feast begin
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 19:37:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Boucher said the 30 countries on the list are Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Britain, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea , Spain, Turkey and Uzbekistan.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 19:14:40 (EST)

My two cents are: So much for the loud mouth liberals in England. Resoundly defeated by vote backing Blair. Now jsut shut up liberal traitors and let the real work begin.
Pete�
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 19:04:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Code obsessive behavior.
probably requires therapy
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 17:30:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Watch out, peaceniks. It's a big one and it's cumming. It's cumming for YOU!

Take that Liberal scum!

- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 17:29:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, it certainly does speak so for itself, Glint. These code mongers are dopey socialsits in withdrawal. (01)
Pete�
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 17:16:03 (EST)

My two cents are:

Those stupid human shield types. Standing around the SAM batteries, holding hands and singing Kum-Ba-Yah. The last verse (sung by us): "Someone's hamburger Lord, Kum-Ba-Yah..." - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 17:10:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Human shield misfits have 48 hours to get in place. Pile themselves and their bongos into their double decker buses and speed on down to the SAM batteries.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 16:50:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Comnpare codes between 15:38 correction and 16:14 retraction forgery. The code speaks for itself.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 16:40:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Negative on 14:14. I stand by my original code receipt failure.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 16:14:56 (EST)

My two cents are: He's such a brave little warrior. Until things get rough like on 9/11. Then he'll probably bolt again to the nearest rabbit hole.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 16:05:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Arabs Call Bush 'Cowboy' - Reuters - Tuesday, March 18, 2003; 11:19 AM By Caroline Drees - CAIRO (Reuters) - A U.S. ultimatum telling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to quit now or face war is a throwback to the Wild West where might made right, Arabs said on Tuesday.
Wrong president. Dubya's not the one that fires the shotgun or brandishes the sword when standing at the podium like some looney wild west outlaw. <Glint>
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 15:55:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Rather, update the time tag to 14:14, not 14:09. My mistake.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 15:38:42 (EST)

My two cents are: PLONK! Code receipt failure at 14:09. Wish I could say "nice try" but I don't want to lie.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 15:02:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Only one? Pshaw. That's not even news.

- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 14:24:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Saudi Arabia? Uh oh. Looks like we'll have to apologize and send our condolences to the Saudi Royal family.
Snippy
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 14:16:01 (EST)

My two cents are:

You might want to try Gold Bond Medicated Anti-Itch Cream. Always seemed to work for me. Of course, I never tried it on crabs caught from humans. (01) - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 14:14:24 (EST)

My two cents are: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- An explosion in a house in the Saudi capital Tuesday killed one person, the Interior Ministry said. The blast, caused by an explosive device, occurred in the al-Jazirah neighborhood in the eastern part of Riyadh, the ministry said in a statement.
Suicide bomb test? It worked.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 14:13:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Wow, E grew a set of balls! And they itch too. Will wonders never cease?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 14:10:35 (EST)

My two cents are:

Not at all, no not at all. What the itchiness means is simply that it is time to warm up the code transceiver again. No more, no less. (01) - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 14:09:25 (EST)

My two cents are: France awoke on Tuesday torn between two emotions. A proud sense of righteous indignation, on the one hand. But on the other, a fearful recognition that - in the world of human reality as opposed to the sphere of moral abstractions - control of events has slipped entirely from its grasp.
Glint
BBC: France faces war on sidelines [bending over with hands raised] - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 14:03:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Memo to Colin: Mention us by name and we're outta here. AND we're keeping your money.
1 of the quiet 15
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 13:55:39 (EST)

My two cents are:

Right. Don�t want to make things worse, over there, if that�s possible. Speaking of health problems, I woke up with itchy balls this morning. Does that mean I had a successful date last night? - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 13:51:00 (EST)

My two cents are: No, I think she failed the health inspection and couldn't get a visa. Rio has enough health problems already.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 13:45:27 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON-- Thirty nations have joined with the United States in a "coalition of the willing" to bring down Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and another 15 quietly have promised their support, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday.
Glint
GREEN light - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 13:44:13 (EST)

My two cents are:

Hi Glint. I thought the traitorous liebral socialsit was in Rio? What gives? - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 13:42:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Requesting escorts. Now Glint's talking about something with which he's familiar.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 13:35:55 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- A North Carolina farmer drove a tractor onto the National Mall and was holding off police for a second day Tuesday, claiming that he had a cache of explosives with him.
Tractor standoff continues on Mall
Cool, dude! - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 13:34:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Doubt it. If that were the case it would probably find another bus stop, or at least request an escort.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 13:27:03 (EST)

My two cents are: The taxi driver could use one, too.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 13:21:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Perhaps Brenda reads fgate and realizes beneath the taxi service niceness veneer her classmate's father has a mean streak and has ridiculed her. Even posted photos.
she needs a good attorney
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 12:55:03 (EST)

My two cents are:

Morning, Glint. - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 12:41:54 (EST)

My two cents are:

Still trying to play the thought cop, eh? Of course you'd lie in front of a bulldozer for a bite of Willard. Peyrione always was your favorite drink. - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 11:38:32 (EST)

This posting was modified by the Webmaster to protect the innocent.
My two cents are: Don't know. Looks like you're still dreaming of Brenda though, Kürt Rölle. Give it up.
E�
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:19:17 (EST)

My two cents are: A Letter to George W. Bush on the Eve of War By Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com March 17, 2003 George W. Bush 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC Dear Governor Bush: So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day that "France and the rest of world have to show their cards on the table." I'm glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much more. So I'm glad to hear that today is Truth Day, 'cause I got a few truths I would like to share with you: 1. There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and Fox News aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this one. Walk out of the White House and on to any street in America and try to find five people who are PASSIONATE about wanting to kill Iraqis. YOU WON'T FIND THEM! Why? 'Cause NO Iraqis have ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi has even threatened to do that. You see, this is how we average Americans think: If a certain so-and-so is not perceived as a threat to our lives, then, believe it or not, we don't want to kill him! Funny how that works! 2. The majority of Americans � the ones who never elected you � are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. We know what the real issues are that affect our daily lives � and none of them begin with I or end in Q. Here's what threatens us: two and a half million jobs lost since you took office, the stock market having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if their retirement funds are going to be there, gas now costs almost two dollars � the list goes on and on. Bombing Iraq will not make any of this go away. Only you need to go away for things to improve. 3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them. 4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The Pope! But even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against you! How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war? Of course, this is a war you personally won't have to fight. Just like when you went AWOL while the poor were shipped to Vietnam in your place. 5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of South Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed forces! If you really want to stand up for America, please send your twin daughters over to Kuwait right now and let them don their chemical warfare suits. And let's see every member of Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids for this war effort. What's that you say? You don't THINK so? Well, hey, guess what � we don't think so either! 6. Finally, we love France. Yes, they have pulled some royal screw-ups. Yes, some of them can be pretty damn annoying. But have you forgotten we wouldn't even have this country known as America if it weren't for the French? That it was their help in the Revolutionary War that won it for us? That our greatest thinkers and founding fathers � Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, etc. � spent many years in Paris where they refined the concepts that lead to our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution? That it was France who gave us our Statue of Liberty, a Frenchman who built the Chevrolet, and a pair of French brothers who invented the movies? And now they are doing what only a good friend can do � tell you the truth about yourself, straight, no b.s. Quit pissing on the French and thank them for getting it right for once. You know, you really should have traveled more (like once) before you took over. Your ignorance of the world has not only made you look stupid, it has painted you into a corner you can't get out of. Well, cheer up � there IS good news. If you do go through with this war, more than likely it will be over soon because I'm guessing there aren't a lot of Iraqis willing to lay down their lives to protect Saddam Hussein. After you "win" the war, you will enjoy a huge bump in the popularity polls as everyone loves a winner � and who doesn't like to see a good ass-whoopin' every now and then (especially when it 's some third world ass!). So try your best to ride this victory all the way to next year's election. Of course, that's still a long ways away, so we'll all get to have a good hardy-har-har while we watch the economy sink even further down the toilet! But, hey, who knows � maybe you'll find Osama a few days before the election! See, start thinking like THAT! Keep hope alive! Kill Iraqis � they got our oil!! Yours, Michael Moore www.michaelmoore.com
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:17:32 (EST)

My two cents are:

May be trouble in paradise. Other day I was sitting in the car with the kids waiting for the bus. A car pulled in, and Brenda was dropped off by a parental unit. The car left and poor Brenda was just standing there. One of the kids rolled down the window and issued an invitation to join us in the crew compartment. Brenda declined! Do you suppose that there could be another letch in Brenda's life? - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:16:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Who's the hack weenie anyway, Eleanor?
Glint
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:11:51 (EST)

My two cents are:

That was quite a display of your incompetence, anonymous forger. Not that we weren't already convinced. - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:08:02 (EST)

My two cents are: nah. true to life.
he dreams of brenda . . .
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 09:55:46 (EST)

My two cents are:

< FONT SIZE=+1 COLOR="#FFFFFF", > An obvious attempt at forgery. (01) - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 09:54:28 (EST)

My two cents are:

< FONT SIZE=+1 COLOR="#FFFFFF ", > Hey Pinchner, while you�re down in Rio do you think you could bring back a transgendered playpal for me and Brenda? Thanks, Buddy. - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 09:52:14 (EST)

My two cents are:

Who's this Robin Cook character? Is he the grandson of the reluctant Neville Chamberlain? - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 09:24:58 (EST)

My two cents are:
glint
Top of the morning to ya! - Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 09:20:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, the bulldozer swept her off her feet. Hope she's happy.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 09:11:27 (EST)

My two cents are: yes yes yes, dance in blood, you invasion lemmings, smack your lips and dance in blood.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 08:53:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, we're not quite in the full swing of war yet but at least the two blood thirsty warriors on this page were able to get a sip of blood when the lady met the bulldozer.
they can hardly wait for the Iraqi blood feast
- Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 00:19:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 CRISIS SITUATION: George W. Bush is sealing the fate of the world. He has madly torn apart the international community, alienating our allies and buying off his feebly named "Coalition of the Willing." This is not the allied power that came together in World War II, and for good reason: this is a war that need not be fought. What more perfect a place for he and his two allies to gather than an island, far removed from the voices of the world that have resoundingly risen against them--and yet, still they rose. And what better way to avoid the awkwardness of hearing those voices than not even presenting his inane plan to the United Nations for certain defeat. The man has no ground to stand on, and he has no shame. He has only an island in his mind where he is ruler over a powerless fool. And that will never be enough. Smirking towards disaster, Bush smells oil, money, and the zany manifest destiny of a campaign for a new American Century. He is choosing to ignore the blood that will come with it. He is choosing to ignore the will of the world. YOUR MISSION: If the U.S. Attacks Iraq, Make Your Opposition Known! If the bombs do start falling, join with United for Peace & Justice and hundreds of other groups around the country and million of people around the world in organizing emergency protests. However you choose to express your opposition to war - from silent vigils to loud marches to nonviolent civil disobedience - get out on the streets immediately and join with millions around the world in demanding an end to the bloodshed. You can find ideas on what you can do here. For listings of events and rallies already planned to take place the day after a war begins, go here and find one near you or plan your own and list it online so others can join you. If Bush is hellbent on going to war and bombing the people of Iraq without ever trying for a real and peaceful solution, we must not be silent. The innocent people of Iraq running for cover from our cruise missiles certainly won't be silent.
nvasion lemmings on the move
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 23:12:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Cook quits over Iraq crisis Robin Cook profile Click here for full story Robin Cook has resigned from Tony Blair's cabinet as the build-up to war with Iraq gathers pace. The decision by the House of Commons leader, one of the highest profile figures in the Labour Party, came as the Cabinet held an emergency meeting in Downing Street. The UK, US and Spain have effectively abandoned their efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the stand-off. They are not putting their draft resolution to a vote in the UN Security Council - citing French intransigence. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said: "There are only two options left - either Saddam goes into exile or he is disarmed by force." THE LEGALITY OF WAR Attorney General's verdict Head to head debate Analysis: Is war legal? Lawyers mixed on legality of war Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is set to make a Commons statement about the crisis at about 2200 GMT on Monday. Amid growing disquiet among his backbenchers, Mr Blair will address the Parliamentary Labour Party ahead of a Commons debate on Tuesday. A vote will then follow on the government's stance. Mr Prescott said the prime minister would ask for support if the "last resort" of war was needed, and would be setting out the humanitarian effort to rebuild Iraq. MPs will also hear on Monday evening a personal statement from former Foreign Secretary Mr Cook. As he left the government ranks, Mr Cook, who saw Mr Blair before the cabinet, said: "It is with regret I have today resigned from the cabinet. "I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support."
let's invite all the suicide bombers to the us of a-- wheee!
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 23:06:36 (EST)

My two cents are: That's what really hurts, eh, Westminister astronomer guy? Brenda visualizer guy? Having to explain nasty vicious cyberposted stuff to God, guy? Ouch.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 23:02:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Ydog has better things to do.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 23:00:31 (EST)

My two cents are:

PUS ALERT!The UAL Brazo flight is in the air, on its way to Dulles from Boston on its first leg. - Monday, March 17, 2003 at 20:31:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, it's o.k. to come out now, Ydog. The Pincher's on the mobile terminal so he can't pinch one on your head tonight.
Glint
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 20:17:21 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't mind the Hollywoodies squeaking their minds in dissent. Just as long as they don't do it in my living room.
Glint
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 19:26:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Since the Pincher's flight landed at gate 18 on Concourse D, perhaps he's now enjoying a beverage at the Samuel Adams pub, or a cheese croissant at the Vie de France. Of course as paranoid as he was about leaving the security perimeter he might have sped over on one of the mobile gate buses to gate 5 Concourse C for the next leg of the trip, and a 5 hour + wait. In that case he might be slurping on some cubes at the Old Dominion Brewing Company. There's also another Vie de France - or as they might say now Vie de Freedom - on that concourse as well.
Glint
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 18:38:45 (EST)

My two cents are: The Pincher's sitting on the ground at Dulles. Looks like his plane landed 4 minutes late at 15:51 EST. Stay tuned for further updates.
Glint
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 18:32:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Perhaps business is anticipating picking up some of the broken - if not illegal - French and German contracts currently in place in Iraq. Let's roll and then move on.
Glint
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 15:35:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, uncertainty caused by the liebrals has really wracked the amrket. It will slip flip around, mainly due to energy concerns, but at least a bloody decision ahs been made to scrap this idiot UN plan that was crammed down our throats by the liebrals from teh beginning. Now we can get on with the business of removing evil. Aloha.
Pete�
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 15:32:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Hi, Pete. Looks like the stock market is indicating its approval. The waffling of the UNSC did a number on it in previous weeks while the frogs were dragging their flippers and the krauts their jackboots.
Glint
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 14:49:50 (EST)

My two cents are: My advice to the liberals: Just close your eyes for the next few weeks while the real Americans do the dirty workb to keep your freedoms, safety and security in check.
Pete�
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 14:34:19 (EST)

My two cents are: A survivor of Saddam Hussein's terror argues for war By Freshta Raper LONDON - Do the demonstrators who have been filling the streets in the capitals of civilized, comfortable nations in the West in opposition to a war against Iraq have any idea what they are protesting? I have been imprisoned, tortured and gassed by Saddam Hussein's regime. I know what life is like inside Iraq. So I can assure these demonstrators that they wouldn't survive a month if they were dropped into Baghdad and forced to live as Iraqis live. They would be arrested and tortured as soon as they started complaining about the lack of basic human rights. I was born in Halabja, close to the Iranian border in the northern Kurdish region. After graduating from school, I became a mathematics teacher there. In the mid-1980s, a law was passed decreeing that all teaching must be done in Arabic. No more would we be allowed to teach in Kurdish. There were demonstrations. Some students burned books in protest. These young protesters soon found themselves fleeing Iraqi intelligence officers who were sent to our town to round up the demonstrators. I helped hide these youths in the school's physics lab and they managed to escape. But someone must have informed the authorities because I was arrested the following day. I was held for three days, during which I was forced to sit in ice-cold water and, like so many other Iraqi women, endure many humiliations. After I was released, Iraqi intelligence officers followed me everywhere. No one was allowed to speak to me. I was soon fired and told not to go anywhere near my school or any of my former pupils. I was reassigned to the education department office of the regional government in the city of Suleimaniyah. In 1987, I received a memo from the director calling me to a meeting. I arrived to find the hall packed with friends and colleagues. Intelligence officers surrounded the building and arrested all of us. Before being taken away, the women were told, "Bring your menfolk who are peshmergas (anti-Saddam Kurdish guerrillas) or bring divorce papers." I did neither. That was the day I decided to join the peshmergas. Once released, I fled to the mountains, living the life of a guerrilla - a life of hell. In 1988, 21 members of my family died of suffocation when Saddam's forces attacked Halabja with chemical weapons. Fortunately, my mother, brothers and sisters were in Suleimaniyah and survived. I wasn't so fortunate. Saddam's forces launched a chemical attack on the small mountain village of Kanyto where I was living. I survived, although badly injured, and spent three months in a hospital recovering from the chemical burns blistered my body from head to foot. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, I decided to leave my homeland: I fled to England and resumed my teaching career at a school for boys in London. Since then, the most dangerous thing I have to deal with these days are unruly teenagers. This is the world that the protesters know, not Saddam's world of chemical weapons, of arbitrary terror and rape. How many opponents of the war have spoken to an Iraqi woman who has been raped in front of her father and son by Saddam's thugs? How many have asked an Iraqi mother how she felt when she was forced to watch her son being executed - and then ordered to pay for the bullet that killed him? How many know that these mothers have been forced to applaud as their sons died, or face execution themselves? I saw and heard all this in the village of Suleimaniyah. I still hear the clapping. I have spoken to many people in northern Iraq over the last few weeks. They all agree that the threat of war advocated by President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair may be the one chance to rid Iraq of the disease that is Saddam Hussein. Like myself, they worry that Saddam will see the war protests as a sign of weakness. Giving U.N. weapons inspectors more time to determine whether Iraq is complying with international demands that it give up its weapons of mass destruction is a bad joke. Saddam will never disarm. He will lie, cheat and bluff his way out. He always has and always will. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freshta Raper is head of mathematics at a boys school in London. Readers may write to the author at the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH, U.K.; Web site: www.iwpr.net.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 14:33:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Uh, the bulldozer did this by itself/ Sort of like the gun shot by itself? Did anyone ask the operator whathe/she saw? Idiots.
Pete�
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 14:29:15 (EST)

My two cents are: "She waved for bulldozer to stop and waved. She fell down and the bulldozer kept going. We yelled 'stop, stop', and the bulldozer didn't stop at all. It had completely run over her and then it reversed and ran back over her."
O.K. Next?
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 13:24:36 (EST)

My two cents are:

"American woman run over and killed by Israeli bulldozer in Gaza." A "Human Shield" finally gets the job done. Congratulations wherever you are, bimbo! - Monday, March 17, 2003 at 13:20:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Finally we are getting somewhere with ridding evil and what Osama calls the socialsit regime. Let's Roll.
Pete�
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 13:03:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Mashing Our Monster Maureen Dowd The president's slapped-together Azores summit is not meant to "go the last mile" on diplomacy, as Ari Fleischer put it. If Mr. Bush really wanted to do that, he'd try to persuade some leaders who disagree with him; he'd confront the antiwar throngs in London, Paris or Berlin and not leave poor, exhausted Tony Blair to always make the case. The hidden huddle in the Azores is trompe l'oeil diplomacy, giving Mr. Blair a little cover, making Poppy Bush a little happy. Just three pals feigning sitting around the campfire singing "Kumbaya," as the final U.S. troops and mat�riel move into place in the Persian Gulf and the president's "Interim Iraqi Authority" postwar occupation plan is collated. The hawks despise the U.N. and if they'd gotten its support, they never would have been able to establish the principle that the U.S. can act wherever and whenever it wants to � a Lone Ranger, no Tontos. Cheney, Rummy, Wolfy, etc. never wanted Colin Powell to find a diplomatic solution. They hate diplomatic solutions. That's why they gleefully junked so many international treaties, multilateral exercises and trans-Atlantic engagements.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 12:17:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Now, the President declares that he's going "the last mile" -- and the last mile unexpectedly turns out to take him Sunday to the Azores to meet with Blair of Britain and Aznar of Spain. The last mile, that is, takes him to an island off the coast of Europe. He probably can no longer set foot on the mainland -- or in Great Britain -- without causing consternation and neither Blair, nor Aznar could rush to Washington without looking even more like vassals of empire. They are already men without countries behind them. So we are watching a bizarre, drunken dance -- of some vast creature whose moves are utterly unpredictable -- but to what end? All you can do is to watch in amazement as the men who claim to be prepared to take one of history's great gambles in the name of reorganizing the world can't seem to organize their diplomatic days.
first the drunken dance, then the hangover
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 12:08:24 (EST)

My two cents are: In the end, Bush is going to war for two reasons. First of all, the Iraq war offers him and his Vietnam service evading administration many political positives from their perspective, including (but not limited to): 1. The permanent war public relations strategy is, in large part, aimed at keeping any of the numerous Bush domestic disasters off of the political table. War supersedes even an economy down the tubes. 2. Keeping the threat of terror simmering on the burner through ginned up and meaningless terror alerts scares Americans into supporting Bush, because they seemingly have no option, since they believe they are under a constant terrorist threat. This leads to a sort of "Stockholm Syndrome" for the nation as a whole. Most Americans look to their psychological tormentor for protection from an outside threat perceived as the more serious of two evils. 3. A war in Iraq offers almost bottomless billion-dollar profiteering opportunities for Bush Cartel campaign contributors and Bush administration officials. Halliburton, the Carlyle Group, etc. are all set to reap big financial benefits from the destruction of the Iraq infrastructure. Blow the country up with bombs paid for by taxpayers -- and then use taxpayer dollars to pay campaign contributors and companies with connections to administration officials to rebuild it. A nice scam if you got a railroad car on the gravy train. 4. By using a brutal, thuggish "diplomacy" -- including threats, bribes and intimidation -- the Bush Cartel has alienated the populations of almost every nation in the world. It has managed to lure a few "leaders" into the alliance of the unwilling with a combination of inducements worthy of a crime family, but created a hostile reaction in almost every country. Why does the seemingly disastrous result actually benefit the Bush Cartel? Because they want to see the United Nations sink into the East River. They don't want anybody but the Bush Cartel Chickenhawks calling the international shots. Sayonara, U.N., and good riddance. That's what the Bush administration fanatics want -- and they are on the verge of achieving their goal. 5. Through the financial "inducements" the Bush administration has offered some nations to support the war, they have found an ingenious way to pay back campaign contributors. Take Poland, for instance. The Bush administration gives Poland six billion dollars in taxpayer money (which would be okay if it were for improving the lot of Polish citizens). What will Poland use the money for, according to a New York Times article? Why, to buy six billion dollars worth of fighter jets from Lockheed-Martin. 6. The assertion of raw, brute, power -- in the form of sophisticated killing war technology -- is meant to intimidate all of the nations of the world, not just our enemies. It is also meant to bully dissenters at home into submission. Since Democratic leaders usually cower when the Bush Cartel barks, it is, additionally, meant to scare them into "dazed and confused" passivity. 7. The conquest of Iraq will shore up a Middle East alliance with the Sharon government, with whom the Bush Cartel shares a common worldview. (The Sharon right wing government is, in this case, to be viewed as a distinct political entity. It is clear that Bush would not have cared a hoot about Israel if the Labor government were in power. Remember that the right wing in Israel killed Yitzhak Rabin, a man of peace. Sharon and Bush are two peas in a pod for whom war is peace.) 8. An attack on Iraq will almost surely be the catalyst for renewed terrorist attacks. After the next terrorist attack, the Bush Cartel will further dismantle the Constitution and move toward a Stalinist "KGB police powers" state of emergency with the likely passage of "Patriot II". It is the Bush Cartel's goal to incrementally seize power until it one day, unnoticed, crosses the line into a dictatorship rather than a democracy. (If you think this is some fringe conspiracy theory, think about the theft of election 2000, think about the 6 year attempt to find a way to impeach Bill Clinton. This is a clique that thinks God has chosen it to run America.) 9. A permanent war will pave the way for even larger Republican majorities in Congress. This will further consolidate a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. It will also mean an accelerated dismantling of government services and the removal of any separation between church and state. 10. The media will be even more in the pocket of the Bush Cartel, because war has become a form of media news entertainment. War increases print readership and television news viewership. War is "exciting." War is profitable for the news media. 11. The war will increase oil prices and give the second largest oil reserves to American and British oil companies, who financially support the Republican Party. 12. A permanent war will ensure that no one digs up the truth about the Bush administration's catastrophic failure to prevent 9/11, including an August 2001 briefing that warned Bush about terrorist hijackings. Bush did nothing in response to that briefing. 13. The religious right and Neo-Confederacy warrior culture will be energized to contribute more to the 2004 Bush election effort, as well as turn out at the polls. 14. There is nothing like a war to try out the latest mega-bombs and hi tech weapons. It's hard to find a place to target practice nowadays, let alone a whole country with real live people in it -- alive for the moment, anyway. And, of course, when bombs are blown up, more bombs are needed. They just happen to be manufactured by companies that contribute to the Bush Cartel election fund. And when more taxpayer money goes toward bombs and new military equipment, there is even less money for government services. Ah, yes, the perfect war for the extremist right wingers running our nation. But what is the number one reason that the Bush Cartel will send our sons and daughters into War? The number one reason is that it has no Plan "B."
nation in grip of stockholm syndrome
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 10:58:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Ex-CIA Officers Questioning Iraq Data Friday March 14, 2003 6:50 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - A small group composed mostly of retired CIA officers is appealing to colleagues still inside to go public with any evidence the Bush administration is slanting intelligence to support its case for war with Iraq. Members of the group contend the Bush administration has released information on Iraq that meets only its ends - while ignoring or withholding contrary reporting. They also say the administration's public evidence about the immediacy of Iraq's threat to the United States and its alleged ties to al-Qaida is unconvincing, and accuse policy-makers of pushing out some information that does not meet an intelligence professional's standards of proof. ``It's been cooked to a recipe, and the recipe is high policy,'' said Ray McGovern, a 27-year CIA veteran who briefed top Reagan administration security officials before retiring in 1990. ``That's why a lot of my former colleagues are holding their noses these days.'' A CIA spokesman suggested McGovern and his supporters were unqualified to describe the quality of intelligence provided to policy-makers. ``He left the agency over a decade ago,'' said spokesman Mark Mansfield. ``He's hardly in a position to comment knowledgeably on that subject.'' McGovern's group, calling itself Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, includes about 25 retired officers, mostly from the CIA's analytical branch but with a smattering from its operational side and other agencies, he said. Carrying an anti-war bent, they invoke the names of whistle-blowers like Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study on U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Leaking classified national defense information is illegal, and CIA officers take a secrecy oath when they join. Prosecutions of violations are rare, but government personnel caught leaking nondefense information may lose their security clearances, or their jobs. Federal law also offers protections to whistle-blowers in some cases. McGovern and his supporters acknowledge their appeal to their colleagues inside the CIA and other agencies is unusual. The CIA's culture tends to keep disputes inside the family, and many intelligence officers shun discussions of American policy - such as whether war on Iraq is justified - saying it is their job to provide information, not to decide how to act on it. McGovern, who now works in an inner-city outreach ministry in Washington, said of his group's request, ``It goes against the whole ethic of secrecy and going through channels, and going to the (Inspector General). It takes a courageous person to get by all that, and say, 'I've got a higher duty.''' Agency spokesman Mansfield said, ``Our role is to call it like we see it, to provide objective, unvarnished assessments. That's the code we live by, and that's what policy-makers expect from us.'' The administration says its information is sound. During Secretary of State Colin Powell's address to the United Nations Security Council last month, he said, ``These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.'' But other countries have challenged the accuracy of several of Powell's statements. And it is no secret that in the past some people with access to intelligence information - such as members of Congress or a presidential administration - have leaked selected pieces that lend support to a given policy. This can provide the public with a less-than-complete picture of what the CIA and other agencies have learned. Another member of McGovern's group, Patrick Eddington, resigned from the CIA in 1996 to protest what he describes as the agency's refusal to investigate some of the possible causes of Gulf War veterans' medical problems. Eddington said would-be whistle-blowers can privately contact members of Congress to get their message out. ``They have to basically put conscience before career,'' he said. Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism chief, said he saw little chance of CIA analysts going public to contradict the Bush administration. ``Sure, there's a lot of disagreement among analysts in the intelligence community on how things are going to be used (by policy-makers),'' he said. ``But you are not going to see people making public resignations. That would mean giving up your career.''
enronism at the cia
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 10:46:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Damn jackbooted thugs and their cavity searches.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, March 17, 2003 at 10:05:02 (EST)

My two cents are: www.globalvigil.com
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 23:48:23 (EST)

My two cents are: The other most dangerous scenario is whether an invasion by Washington will heighten tensions in the Middle East in such a way that militant groups will attack oil interests when the U.S. and global economy are most vulnerable. Indeed, if militants inside Saudi Arabia attempted to sabotage major oil facilities within the country, limiting exports, oil prices would skyrocket since other nations would not be able to supplement the amount of oil Saudi Arabia exports. This would possibly send oil prices to over $50 a barrel, or cause prices to become static at $40.00 a barrel for many months. Indeed, Gary Hufbauer, of the Institute for International Economics, stated in the Baltimore Sun last October that a sustained rise in oil prices at a level of $45 or $50 a barrel could "turn [the economies of] the United States and Japan into a recession." Should the two largest global economies -- the United States and Japan -- enter a recession, or even suffer further economic setback due to increased oil prices, it would greatly add to the misery of other suffering states and impact emerging market economies. South American states, for instance, have had difficulty accessing global capital markets due to the economic uncertainty in Brazil -- which has been flirting with economic disaster -- and the recent economic meltdown of Argentina. Paraguay and Uruguay too have been hit by their neighbors' economic troubles, with the former suffering from low tax revenues and a stagnant economy. If the global economy were to deteriorate, it could create a scenario where Argentina would have to default on its debts to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). If Argentina were to default, and other countries soon followed, it would compromise the Fund's own financial position and economic assistance to needy economies would falter, further spiraling the world economy toward a grave future. Along with South America, Asia will also be pushed into economic disaster should oil prices spike for a prolonged period. In addition to putting Japan into recession, South Korea, fraught with its own economic woes due to a rapid increase in real estate prices and unemployment, is also vulnerable. Seoul cannot rely on domestic spending to stimulate its economy due to ballooning household debt, a situation that increased oil prices would only exacerbate. Singapore, too, is walking on the edge of economic demise. Narrowly missing a double-dip recession this last year, weak demand for the city-state's key electronics exports and manufactured goods led to further job losses, ballooning its unemployment level to a 15-year high. Therefore, these concerns will be carefully weighed by the Bush administration as they consider whether or not to invade Iraq. With the global economy in such a precarious position, Washington will be hedging its bets; a war will either provide great economic gains, or colossal economic ruin.
invasion lemmings for ruin-nation
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 19:12:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Who's more dangerous, moron president or people who control moron president?
wonder in aliceland
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 18:57:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Guess that's why Georgie-boy can't back that annoying World Court! He'd wind up a war criminal like Henry the K! Maybe he will anyhow!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 18:17:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Guernica! How nice! Then we can throw one of John Ashcroft's curtains over the whole thing so we don't have to sully our tellys with nasty pix of all the actual bloodletting! Civilian deaths will certainly make it SO much easier to find all that silly anthrax that we and the frogs oops carelessly provided Iraq when we were madder at Iran than Iraq!
threat level: bloody moronic
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 18:16:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Forget Osama. Forget Saddam. The Pentagon's newest target is the city of Baghdad. U.S. military strategists have announced a plan to pummel Iraq with as many as 800 cruise missiles in the space of two days. Many of these missiles would rain down on Baghdad, a city of five million people. If George W. Bush gets the war he wants, Baghdad could become the 21st century's Guernica.
hot enough to sear meat
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 17:47:41 (EST)

My two cents are: How safe and happy we will be when the streets of Topeka and Kalamazoo run red with the blood of little American children blown to bits by more crazed fanatics! Yes, yes, our blood for Snippy's oil!
threat level: bloody moronic
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 17:45:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 17:43:11 (EST)

My two cents are: The Bush Cartel can't locate any of the WMD it says Saddam has. It says it can't take out Saddam without going to war because they don't know where he is half the time. It says that they can't beat Iraq without committing a Guernica-like bombing of Baghdad. But somehow it manages to discover a secret Iraqi plot to have Saddam's soldiers dress up like American and British soldiers and kill Iraqis. Yeah, sure, uh-huh.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 17:40:11 (EST)

My two cents are: TRa la la, toodles? Sounds as if he's OD'd on joy.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 17:24:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Saddam told his commanders: "When the enemy starts a large-scale battle, he must realize that the battle between us will be open wherever there is sky, land and water in the entire world."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 17:20:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Sad Pete.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 17:17:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Namecalling IS a rightwing tactic. One calls Pete an asshole because he is an asshole. One does not call him a pussed-over-twat, not necessarily because he isn't one, but because that's unacceptably gross. On the other hand, Pete and Glint pussed-over-twatcall regardless, and seem to regard "asshole" and "pussed over twat" as being essentially the same. Is that blind or stupid or both.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 17:16:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Wait a minute. I thought the name calling was a rightwing tactic. I call Pete an asshole because he calls women twats. And, by the way, asshole, save the good-byes. There are a dozen of us who are staying right here to ruin your miserable life. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 16:09:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Toodles Traitors.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 16:02:45 (EST)

My two cents are: FOR MORE THAN 25 years he has sought to acquire chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and has, in several documented cases, succeeded. He gassed 60,000 of his own people in 1986 in Halabja. He has launched two catastrophic wars, sacrificing nearly a million Iraqis and killing or wounding more than a million Iranians. He has flouted 16 United Nations resolutions over 12 years that have warned him to disarm or else, including one, four months ago, giving him a �final opportunity� to do so �fully and immediately� or face �serious consequences.� But in its campaign against Iraq, America is virtually alone. Never will it have waged a war in such isolation. Never have so many of its allies been so firmly opposed to its policies. Never has it provoked so much public opposition, resentment and mistrust. And all this before the first shot has been fired. Watching the tumult around the world, it�s evident that what is happening goes well beyond this particular crisis.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 16:02:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, so much joy. So much fun watching the lying substance-less liberals revert to their patented name-calling. Oh, but boy do they squirm when their tactics are reversed on them. They sure squeal and contort in hypocritical style. They can enver take their own medicine. So much joy exposing these liars every single day. Tra la la.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 15:50:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Anger on Iraq Seen as New Qaeda Recruiting Tool By DON VAN NATTA Jr. and DESMOND BUTLER ONDON, March 15 � On three continents, Al Qaeda and other terror organizations have intensified their efforts to recruit young Muslim men, tapping into rising anger about the American campaign for war in Iraq, according to intelligence and law enforcement officials. In recent weeks, officials in the United States, Europe and Africa say they had seen evidence that militants within Muslim communities are seeking to identify and groom a new generation of terrorist operatives. An invasion of Iraq, the officials worry, is almost certain to produce a groundswell of recruitment for groups committed to attacks in the United States, Europe and Israel. Advertisement "An American invasion of Iraq is already being used as a recruitment tool by Al Qaeda and other groups," a senior American counterintelligence official said. "And it is a very effective tool." Another American official, based in Europe, said Iraq had become "a battle cry, in a way," for Qaeda recruiters. Some of the information about Qaeda recruiting comes from interrogations of captured operatives and from materials found at the house in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, where Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the third-ranking Qaeda leader, was arrested this month, officials say. The surge in Qaeda recruitment efforts has been most visible in Germany, Britain, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, the officials said. Investigators have significantly increased their use of informants and, in some cases, bugging devices, to monitor mosques and other gathering places, where they have observed a sharp spike in anti-American oratory. For example, German domestic intelligence agents have eavesdropped on increasingly shrill sermons in mosques about the possibility of war with Iraq, a message that officials there say has clearly resonated with young people. The officials expressed deep concern that the angry climate would lead to a torrent of new recruits. "I can't use numbers, but we know the activity is increasing and the willingness to participate and to listen to radical messages is on the rise," says Carl Heinrich von Bauer, ministerial counsel at the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia. He is the chief of the German state department that is responsible for monitoring terrorism. "There are more people coming to hear radical talks," he said. "Also we are seeing people go suddenly from jeans to traditional dress and long beards." That target audience, officials say, is a somewhat changed one � younger people, many of them converts to Islam, easily susceptible to the appeal of violence
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 15:46:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Nasty little shit.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 15:34:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Right. If all else fails. What a pathetic, moronic asshole.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 15:10:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, like Snippy's the great humanitarian. Right. This is all about liberating the Iraqis. No, wait, it's about WMD. No, make that Saddam and Osama as blood brothers. It's about jobs, that's the ticket! Jobs, do you hear!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 14:29:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Supporters of Iraqi Kurds petitioned the French embassy in central London, citing years of oppression and torture carried out under Saddam Hussein's regime as justification for war. But French leader Jacques Chirac is opposed to war and may use his country's power of veto in the United Nations security council to block a resolution permitting conflict. Azos Rashid, a 20-year-old student and member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, was among those delivering the petition. He said: "Chirac is vetoing the hopes and lives of people in Iraq. "I have to say the French embassy refused to acknowledge us. We were standing outside for 15 minutes when they did not acknowledge us." He added: "They (embassy staff) then questioned us over why we were picking on France and they were saying 'Chirac is a nice man'." Mr Rashid pledged to do more in the future to highlight the pro-war arguments. The protest has coincided with the 15th anniversary of the Halabja massacre, where 5,000 Kurds were killed after the Iraqi government ordered a chemical weapons attack. He added: "Millions of Kurds have died under Saddam. He is imposing his own sanctions on Kurds in the north. "We want to liberate Iraq. Iraqis would rather live under George W Bush than Saddam Hussein."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 14:24:49 (EST)

My two cents are: If all else fails, you can always count on a socialsit getting cancer from all their self-indulgence.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 13:58:37 (EST)

My two cents are: You should have used the high-pressure bed. Costs a little more, but does so much more. Of course, there's always skin dye.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 13:46:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Here's a few guesses about our coverage of the war to come. American and British forces use thousands of depleted uranium (DU) shells � widely regarded by 1991 veterans as the cause of Gulf War syndrome as well as thousands of child cancers in present day Iraq � to batter their way across the Kuwaiti-Iraqi frontier. Within hours, they will enter the city of Basra, to be greeted by its Shia Muslim inhabitants as liberators. US and British troops will be given roses and pelted with rice � a traditional Arab greeting � as they drive "victoriously" through the streets. The first news pictures of the war will warm the hearts of Messrs Bush and Blair. There will be virtually no mention by reporters of the use of DU munitions. But in Baghdad, reporters will be covering the bombing raids that are killing civilians by the score and then by the hundred. These journalists, as usual, will be accused of giving "comfort to the enemy while British troops are fighting for their lives". By now, in Basra and other "liberated" cities south of the capital, Iraqis are taking their fearful revenge on Saddam Hussein's Baath party officials. Men are hanged from lamp-posts. Much television footage of these scenes will have to be cut to sanitise the extent of the violence. Far better for the US and British governments will be the macabre discovery of torture chambers and "rape-rooms" and prisoners with personal accounts of the most terrible suffering at the hands of Saddam's secret police. This will "prove" how right "we" are to liberate these poor people. Then the US will have to find the "weapons of mass destruction" that supposedly provoked this bloody war. In the journalistic hunt for these weapons, any old rocket will do for the moment. Bunkers allegedly containing chemical weapons will be cordoned off � too dangerous for any journalist to approach, of course. Perhaps they actually do contain VX or anthrax. But for the moment, the all-important thing for Washington and London is to convince the world that the casus belli was true � and reporters, in or out of military costume, will be on hand to say just that. Baghdad is surrounded and its defenders ordered to surrender. There will be fighting between Shias and Sunnis around the slums of the city, the beginning of a ferocious civil conflict for which the invading armies are totally unprepared. US forces will sweep past Baghdad to his home city of Tikrit in their hunt for Saddam Hussein. Bush and Blair will appear on television to speak of their great "victories". But as they are boasting, the real story will begin to be told: the break-up of Iraqi society, the return of thousands of Basra refugees from Iran, many of them with guns, all refusing to live under western occupation. In the north, Kurdish guerrillas will try to enter Kirkuk, where they will kill or "ethnically cleanse" many of the city's Arab inhabitants. Across Iraq, the invading armies will witness terrible scenes of revenge which can no longer be kept off television screens. The collapse of the Iraqi nation is now under way ... Of course, the Americans and British just might get into Baghdad in three days for their roses and rice water. That's what the British did in 1917. And from there, it was all downhill. Weasel words to watch for 'Inevitable revenge' � for the executions of Saddam's Baath party officials which no one actually said were inevitable. 'Stubborn' or 'suicidal' � to be used when Iraqi forces fight rather than retreat. 'Allegedly' � for all carnage caused by Western forces. 'At last, the damning evidence' � used when reporters enter old torture chambers. 'Officials here are not giving us much access' � a clear sign that reporters in Baghdad are confined to their hotels. 'Life goes on' � for any pictures of Iraq's poor making tea. 'Remnants' � allegedly 'diehard' Iraqi troops still shooting at the Americans but actually the first signs of a resistance movement dedicated to the 'liberation' of Iraq from its new western occupiers. 'Newly liberated' � for territory and cities newly occupied by the Americans or British. 'What went wrong?' � to accompany pictures illustrating the growing anarchy in Iraq as if it were not predicted.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 11:49:35 (EST)

My two cents are: I've actually got a bit of a tan from 7 sessions on a tanning bed. Might get one more in today.
Pensioner
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 11:46:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't forget the sunscreen!
5 or 6 of 22
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 11:12:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Have a good trip, guy. Yee haw.
E�
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 10:33:40 (EST)

My two cents are: How can a good American abandon his country in a time of war? Traitor!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 10:16:59 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm out of here. Adios!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 10:13:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Kowtow to Little Caesar, that's the ticket!
bushist fascist sheeple invasion lemmings
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 10:03:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, these are our rulers. Obey them.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 09:35:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Like any fascistic regime, the governing clique currently ensconced in Washington D.C. depends on instilling fear of Enemies and Others in order to retain its nasty clutches on power. The mass control techniques pioneered by the Nazis are being deployed, and with some degree of success, among the American public: Pump up the fear factor. Swagger and bluster about the need for securing the homeland from alleged foreign and domestic threats. Scapegoat. Repress and intimidate any opposition. Above all, lie, lie, lie -- the biggest lies being the easiest ones to get away with -- and saturate the mass media with them constantly. As far as I can tell, the single innovative bit for which to credit the Bush regime is its ludicrous endorsement of duct tape and saran wrap as anti-terrorist prophylactics. Otherwise, we see almost a complete rerun of the basic Nazi-originated playbook, with a blitzkrieg style �shock and awe� assault murdering tens of thousands in the offing against Iraq and probably against a whole line of other sovereign nations "preemptively" to follow. (It should be remembered that Hitler, too, posed as a liberator of oppressed peoples when he sent his Wehrmacht goose-stepping into Czechoslovakia in 1938 and that the Nazi leader just as shamelessly declared that the unprovoked onslaught that ripped apart Poland in 1939 was a necessary "preventative war".) The openness and brazenness with which they are trying to get away with these crimes is almost beyond rational belief.
Jay Moore--The Enemy is at Home
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 09:25:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Bill blasts 'political mess' by W By JOEL SIEGEL DAILY NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT Former President Bill Clinton double-dissed President Bush last night, saying his successor in the White House has bungled handling the U.S. economy and the crisis over Iraq. Clinton, who drew standing ovations from a packed auditorium at the 92nd Street Y on the upper East Side, criticized the administration's economic policies as "wrongheaded" and getting worse. He said the 2001 tax cut turned the surplus he left into a "massive deficit" that he predicted eventually will drive up interest rates and create problems paying for Medicare and Social Security. "And now they want to give another tax cut," he told the audience of more than 1,000. "It doesn't make sense. We shouldn't do it now. It's against arithmetic." Asked what would have happened if he was still President or if Al Gore had taken the White House, Clinton said that the economy would have slowed, but added: "Would it have been as bad as it is now? I don't think so." On the issue of Iraq, Clinton said he supports booting dictator Saddam Hussein out of Baghdad and destroying his weapons, but he said Bush has made it more difficult to line up international cooperation for a possible war. Right after winning UN Security Council support in November for weapons inspections, the White House "sent 150,000 troops to the gulf, which convinced everybody we weren't serious about UN inspections. That's how we got into this political mess." The U.S. should be strengthening the UN and other "mechanisms of cooperation," Clinton said. "We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in ."
BIG DOG DISSES LITTLE CAESAR
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 09:11:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 09:10:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Great news this AM about Osama using the Bushist fascist war as a recruitment tool. Doing very well with it, also. More news about moderate Islamic clerics who have previously defended the US position due to 9/11 sympathy, now ready to declare jihad on the US when US invades Iraq. Thanks for putting the whole usa at risk, bushist fascist assholes.
no toothpaste going back into the tube
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 09:02:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Sorry, folks, but to impeach you have to have a critical mass of Congressional lunatics on board. The only thing we can hope for is that Snippy realizes he can't handle the presidency and quits, and Cheney follows that other illustrious crook, Spiro Agnew, to prison. Hastert could probably be swayed to do the right thing for his country and turn the whole thing back to the Big Dog, or possibly Al Gore, until 2004. On the other hand, if Snippy's war is a blood-bath for American troops, maybe Congress would stiffen up and eject the sorry bastard, willing or unwilling.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 00:09:10 (EST)

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