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War on Iraq - Conceived In Israel
"It is common for great powers to try to fight wars by proxy, getting smaller powers to fight for their interests. This would be the first instance I know where a great power (in fact, a superpower) would do the fighting as the proxy of a small client state."


vampagan 3:40 PM - [Link]

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He'll Be Remembered as an Asshole
"Foremost among his epic buggerations, history will record that Bush precipitated modern America's first utterly unprovoked war and rekindled the arms race. Saddam's not even a communist. A war of opportunity, possibly World War III: this is what Bush will be remembered for, not the inevitable victory over some whiskery homunculus in Baghdad. And that's not all.

Another first: George will be remembered for reversing the outcome of both the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement. He will be remembered for mixing Church and State: his invisible cloud superhero and your tax dollars, together at last. He will be remembered for nose-diving the economy from a great height. For record deficits and massive bureaucratic expansion- he'll knock Reagan off the charts. For 50 bankrupt states. He will be remembered for turning his back on treaties. For insulting great nations. For calling the leader of Russia 'Pooty Poot'. For oppressing the weak and unleashing the mighty upon them. For eviscerating the Bill of Rights, and for secret detentions. For ignoring the desperate environmental crisis which grips the globe like a gut-spasming case of Montezuma's Revenge. For slipping the government's unclean fingers back into the womb of every woman in America. For stealing the election of 2000. For rigging the election of 2002, and probably for canceling the election of 2004."

vampagan 3:33 PM - [Link]

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They're more into it than we are~
Most Israelis favor immediate strike on Iraq
"A majority of Israelis prefer an immediate US-led attack against Iraq over any attempt to find a peaceful solution to the crisis, according to a survey published Friday.

Fifty-one percent of Israelis questioned said they favored an immediate attack, while 43 percent said they supported efforts to solve the crisis peacefully. Six percent were without opinion, said the poll results published in the Maariv daily."

Of course, there's no surprise here.


vampagan 2:34 PM - [Link]

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A Small Victory~
"This morning Tony Blair said of the protesters:

'If there are one million, that is still less than the number of people who died in the wars [Saddam] started.'
Meanwhile, protesters call for the blood of Blair.

So, let me get this straight. They anti-war people would rather shed the blood of someone who is trying to bring democracy to Iraq rather than see the death of the man who is keeping Iraq from being free."

That sound about right?



Almost.
The anti-war people would rather shed the blood of someone who is trying to disarm Iraq as required by UN resolution than see the death of the man who refuses to disarm peacefully.
Had it ever been about liberation, Poppy wouldn't have merely given Saddam a written reprimand for gassing his own people.
He was enabled by Sr. to be knocked over by Jr.
It's about protecting the world from a dangerous element and assuring Saddam doesn't light his oil fields on fire again.
Liberation would only be incidental.
Sorry-I'm quite skeptical about the "liberation" aspect.

vampagan 11:59 AM - [Link]

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Vote To Impeach Bush
"Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority."
via DRT.
vampagan 1:15 AM - [Link]

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Ari Fleischer, caught in a Lie~
AP Wire | 02/04/2003 | Bush Uncertain About Space Center Visit
vampagan 1:14 AM - [Link]

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ei: Focus on Iraq: Powell's UN speech dissected
vampagan 1:13 AM - [Link]

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Test Post
System 1:02 AM - [Link]

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