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These two back-toback killings of Iraqi civilians as they fail to stop their vehicles at U.S. checkpoints should (but won’t) reflect much worse on Saddam’s regime than it does on our troops.
If you can stomach it, try to understand what these poor Iraqis must be going through to ignore our troop’s warnings to stop: have [...]

Hoser Mubarak says that there will “100 Bin Ladens” after our war in Iraq. Not if Syria can help it. If a couple thousand jihad warriors come down from Syria join Iraqi forces, perhaps we can get rid of many potential Bin Ladens as we wipe them out, too.
I welcome all potential terrorists to take [...]

Alan’s post about the ironic Chechen Pro-U.S. stance is almost too odd to believe, but I do believe it, at least as a shallow ‘Fuck You’ to Putin, attempting to group him as a dictator in the vein of Hussein.
Still, I highly doubt that this radical Islamic faction would object to a brutal dictator in [...]

Geraldo is an idiot. Fox News should have fired him back when he falsified a feature during the war against the Taliban. Although I enjoy a few shows on Fox a great deal, I’ve said before that many of their male anchors are reactionary dimwits, and once Fox started winning in the ratings they began [...]

Peter Arnett just got hired by Britain’s Daily Mirror and remarked that he was “shocked and awed” at getting fired from NBC.
Also, Geraldo has been asked to leave by CentCom after he drew battle plans in the sand during a live broadcast on Fox. However, Geraldo denies he has been asked to leave and that [...]

And you don’t even really have to read Fox news to get it. Our guys have captured several Republican guard members. One is from the Nebachunezzer (sp, whatever) unit which is supposed to be in the north of Bagdhad. Might indicate that the RG is getting spread out reinforcing their losses in the south of [...]

I am wondering the same things Pat. Right now because of some New Yorker article everyone with a media hat wants to scoop out and expose this giant rift (which I am convinced is highly exagerrated) between Rumsfeld and the “Pentegon brass,” Ie that the brass wanted gulf war types of troop numbers while Rummy [...]

This war started out differently. The build-up was enormous, the regime more desperate, and the public, thanks to the UN was largely against it. With all of that in mind…
It makes me think that it was naive to try this “lets not every hit civilians” approach. If anything, it made it clear [...]

just frickin’ rock. I am so amazed and proud of the type of people our country produces. We’ve discussed at length the type of anti-americanism embodied by spoiled brats like Michael Moore but I am also tired of the bemoanings that come from conservative christians about the spiritual condition of our country because of abortion [...]

Did you hear about the professor at Columbia University that said that he is cheering against the USA in the Iraq War and is hoping that there will be “a million more mogadishus” (Black Hawk Down incidents)?
We went to Somalia to help feed the starving people whose food was being hoarded by warlords. It [...]

Nan Pin’s apartment is in an article accessible through the drudgereport.

Yeah…the Bell Curve. I hope this peaks in a couple of weeks. I feel sorry for Nan Pin’s wife Eleanor and their son…they will have to keep checking in at the clinic until it’s confirmed they don’t have it. I’m really worried about him.
I guess we’ll just stay in this apartment.

Eesh. AIDS is the only killer virus that doesn’t act like your typical virus. AIDS should have wiped out Africa by now. SARS should follow the bell curve of most viruses. It will catch on like wildfire (Hanta, Ebola, etc. etc. Remember those killer viruses), then it should disappear (like hanta, ebola). I know this [...]

I’m glad the Dorrs made it through immigration. Yeah, I wonder if we could even get out if we wanted to. We had thought about going to Japan for a few days and then connecting on to the U.S. How long will that last. We are HK residents…pretty soon, we’ll be [...]

We’re back, despite the best efforts of Air Canada to keep us in limbo. More info later, after we gather the rest of our luggage and sleep for 28 hours.

Well, I’ve seen DD live 3 times (87, 89, 99). The only time that I’ve ever heard an Arcadia song was on their ‘87 “Strange Behavior” tour when they did “Election Day.” They then did a Power Station song, “Some Like it Hot,” with Simon singing Palmer’s stuff. Of course, Roger the [...]

Just MENTIONING the Power Station in that last post sent me straight to Amazon.com to listen to samples from that album. And now I come to praise it.
What is it about the Power Station? It’s an important record. Don’t laugh — the album still holds up. It just rises above all the other power-metal pop [...]

Well, you just knew this had to happen sooner or later.
If they roll out Robert Palmer and Tony Thompson on hand-trucks for a Power Station greatest-hits interlude between sets, I am so there.
Patrick, will they play hits from “So Red the Rose”? Is Arcadia considered part of the Duran Duran canon in live shows?

Yes, the rumors are true. Duran Duran (the original 5) are re-uniting for a a box set and World Tour. Nobody wanted to give them a record deal, but perhaps that is on the way now that the massive box set will be released.
That’s right, talented but not so-hot Andy Taylor and formerly [...]

A videotape showing Saddam Hussein’s personal bodyguard apparently guarding another senior Iraqi official is fueling new speculation that the Butcher of Baghdad may indeed have been killed in a March 19 cruise missile attack on his compound.
“We’re aware of it and we find it interesting,” said Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, when asked about [...]