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Hussein Warned Iraqis to Beware Outside Fighters, Document Says
1/13/04
  By James Risen

Saddam Hussein warned his Iraqi supporters to be wary of joining forces with foreign Arab fighters entering Iraq to battle American troops, according to a document found with the former Iraqi leader when he was captured, Bush administration officials said Tuesday. ...

My comments: These foreign "jihadists" seem to be causing a lot of the violence going on over there lately... I don't know what they think their goal or purpose is, but they've managed to kill and wound a lot of ordinary Iraqis. While I do think we need to hand control over the the UN and get US soldiers out of control and the US out of the role of "occupier", I don't think the US soldiers are directly causing most of the deaths and destruction in recent weeks and months...

A lovely photo essay on animal mating practices...

Everyone was having a cow about the fact that two ads comparing Bush to Hitler appeared on Moveon.org's site... But this is pretty compelling. I still maintain that GW Bush himself is simply too DUMB to be a Hitler, but that doesn't mean that his family didn't help the Nazis, and it doesn't mean that his policies aren't Nazi-like. The Bush Regime is not a nice thing. It may not be the Third Reich, but it is not your friend. FLUSH BUSH!!!!

At Harvard, Skeptics Rule
By Beccah Golubock Watson
For a brief moment on campus, Iraq stirred the students. But sadly, pessimism has regained its lead over passion here.

Jan. 19 2004 -- As the Democratic presidential sweepstakes heats up, students at Harvard are greeting a parade of visiting candidates with polite smiles—and big yawns. To hear most of my classmates tell it, it doesn't much matter if the Democrats pick Dean or Clark or Kucinich or Moseley Braun. It's not just that people here are skeptical of anyone's chances of beating Bush; at today's Harvard, pessimism is always cooler than passion. ...