Sunday, April 27, 2003

Some Are Weeping, Some Are Not. It has often been said that war is Hell, but the saying is only half right. In truth, it's Hell for some and perfectly splendid for others. For Mona Hassan, Amer Mahmoud, Walid Hijazi, Khalid Tamimi, Khessma Radi, Ali Ismail Abbas, and thousands of others like them, all perfectly innocent of threatening anybody, life now holds the prospect of endless misery, but for George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and Colin Powell, the powerful architects of that boundless suffering, the future looks bright. [LewRockwell.com] 10:49:44 PM    comment () Embedded Reporters A Good Idea. In some respects, this has been a ghost war. We know that 125 Americans were killed. We know that there are about 6,400 Iraqi prisoners of war. How many Iraqi civilians were killed? How many Iraqi soldiers were killed? This we don't know. We were told there were fierce battles here and there. Where are the corpses? Either there are thousands of Iraqi bodies lying around rotting, or 400,000 or so Iraqi soldiers are not dead, wounded or in custody. Where are they? Did they just go home? Did they take their personal weapons with them? What are their plans? [Charley Reese] This is something I've been wondering about too. Before the invasion started the Crusaders were claiming that the Iraqi soldiers would all surrender, but that didn't happen. So where are they? When some Iraqis defied the Crusader's script and fought back, the Crusaders claimed that they were Republican Guard and Feddayeen loyalists who were only fighting because they would be killed by the Iraqi people if they lost. And yet, they stopped fighting abruptly and there have been no stories of thousands of corpses mysteriously appearing. So what happened to them? 10:33:56 PM    comment () Libertarian Enterprise - Letter from Jay P Hailey - a good test to see if you're a libertarian. Hehe. [tle] [End the War on Freedom] Take your favorite, shallow, narrow racial stereotype [...] Now, Picture them well armed. Big, shiny new guns and rigs. If any of this scares you, you're probably not a Libertarian by temperament. 8:48:37 PM    comment ()

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