Still Anti-War?

Please read this article from UPI (courtesy of LFG).

"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."

Guess what the human shields discovered in Iraq...

Update: Don't guess. Read this and find out.

Yep

Liberation begins. "Americans very good," Ali Khemy said. "Iraq wants to be free."

Self-Righteous Party Animals

It's a little obscene. While 200,000 plus young Americans are risking their lives half-way around the world to liberate Iraq, here in Portland the news tonight was dominated by scenes of about 1,500, at most, "war protesters" strutting around the street in desultory crowds, blocking bridges and freeways, breaking windows, and confronting stoic police officers with sophomoric rants. Looks like the crowd has dwindled to a few hundred standing around in the middle of Burnside near Chinatown. (Cut to scenes of a tightly choreographed tank ballet in Southern Iraq, then back to the streets of Portland) A little over 30 years ago I was there (except, I was in the mid-west), sitting in the middle of an intersection to protest Viet Nam. I know what they are all about. Some of them are having a party with a self-righteous, anti-war patina, some are living out personality problems that this event allows them to project onto Bush and the government, and a few have intellects seriously absorbed in obscure Marxist/socialist fantasies. Oh, and there are a few who were there with me 30 years ago and who are tonight reliving their youths. Sweetness and light, love and joy.

Meanwhile, I think we've just about already won in Iraq. What a world, what a world.

War Updates

If you've surfed here looking for current info on the war, I recommend the Command Post.

The Long Bomb

Now we see where that expression comes from. With an action that indicates a strong, decisive quaterback, America threw a surprise long bomb on the opening play of the game. Still waiting to see if we scored a touchdown.

This Explains a Lot

According to the radio this morning Sadaam is a lawyer.

Am I Blind?

If this study is true, then why do all my kids have great eyesight, while my own eyesight went bad by the time I was twelve? hmmmmmm.... And not only don't they see like me, they don't look much like me either....

Sadaam's Strategy

I had been wondering why Sadaam would think he might actually stay in power in the face of U.S. attack. This article poses a strategy Sadaam might have in mind: "We shall see how many Iraqis the aggressors are prepared to kill."

He's going to try to make us kill so many of his people that we lose the will to fight. That may be what appeared to him to have happened in the last gulf war: we slaughtered so many on the road back from Kuwait that we didn't have the heart to continue. He's right that we didn't have the stomach to slaughter more. It's a moral qualm he doesn't share, so he considers it a weakness. But that wasn't what stopped us. We stopped because Bush Sr. had given his word to allies that we wouldn't continue to Baghdad. This time Bush Jr. will keep his word that Sadaam's regime is over.

The French

They still think they are the center of the world. Someone clue them in. They are an illmannered backwater country with bad breath. And someone please tell Chirac to take off the Napolean hat. He's starting to appear insane.

Patton

Horsefeathers has a great essay with excerpts from a speech Patton made just before D-day. Well worth the read. And, one might note, appropriate for the moment. Patton was slightly opinionated and did not mince words. If he were alive today, he would have a great blog. A quote from the speech:

"Men, this stuff some sources sling around about America wanting to stay out of the war and not wanting to fight is a lot of baloney! Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. America loves a winner. America will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise a coward; Americans play to win. That's why America has never lost and never will lose a war."

Bright Idea

Blogger just went comatose long enough to wipe out a brilliant, brilliant post I wrote.

Oh, well. Fuckit. I'm tired.

Just one quick kick at the fecal-brained appeasement mongers who would rather see Sadaam torture children than have America assert power in the world, then it's off to bed.

Sweet dreams.