The Daily Show On Donald Rumsfeld (Small – 5 MB)
The Daily Show On Donald Rumsfeld (Hi-res – 57 MB)
“We’re in the middle of a war — He’s starting another war.”
The Daily Show — the best news on television.
The Daily Show On Peter Arnett (Small – 7 MB)
The Daily Show On Peter Arnett (Hi-res – 98 MB)
The Daily Show — the best news on television.
Update: 6:43 pm – Thanks, Sheila, for the heads up that I had “CNN” instead of “NBC”. (More on the details of this soon.)
Here’s a clip showing a bit of what he said and what happened as a result.
The Daily Show also just did a bit on this that I’ve made available.
Peter Arnett Fired From CNN – KTVU 2 (Small – 3 MB)
Peter Arnett Fired From CNN – KTVU 2 (Hi-res – 33 MB)
First Stop, Iraq
How did the U.S. end up taking on Saddam? The inside story of how Iraq jumped to the top of Bush’s agenda
Nice piece Steven, except for the title. There’s nothing delightful about our blogs becoming popular as a result of this senseless war.
Bloggers
Here’s how one group of American mothers tries to cope with the reality that their boys may never come home from this conflict: they’ve started up a support group.
When they’re not together, they spend a lot of time with the TV.
You might want to wait until you get home to watch this if you’re somewhere you can’t cry. (Unless you’re not prone to such behavior and there’s no risk of that happening.) It’s a tear jerker.
This is from NBC Nightly News, March 26, 2003.
On The Homefront in Phoenix (Small – 6 MB)
On The Homefront in Phoenix (Hi-res – 66 MB)
Is he real or just raed?
Paul Boutin takes a shot at finding out for sure.
Rather than guess, I emailed Salam and asked for proof of his location just before the first attack on Baghdad this morning. “how can i do that?” he emailed back. “you don’t expect me to run out in the street and take a picture near something you’ll recognize.” Actually, I pointed out, a +964 phone number where I could reach him would do. Dialing into Iraq from here is tough right now, but not impossible, and rerouting a phone number would be much tougher than posting a blog from outside the country. Salam hasn’t given me one, but that’s understandable.
Instead, I mixed what I learned as a Unix sysadmin in the 80s with what I learned as a daily reporter in the 90s. A barrage of late-night phone calls and emails to bloggers, Google, and network engineers produced the following evidence:
– Salam claims to connect to the Net via Uruklink, the state-run Iraqi ISP, using Web-based email from the British music magazine New Musical Express. Remember the Sex Pistols line, “I use the NME?” So does he.
IP addresses in his email headers aren’t sufficient to pinpoint his location, but they’re consistent with his story, being in the same range used by past Uruklink posters. I’m reluctant to publish his exact headers.
A whois and traceroute on Salam’s most recent originating address got as far as Transtrum, a unit of the Lebanon-based ISP TerraNet. Requests for further routing info from Transtrum went unanswered, but senior network engineers who looked at the headers for me in the US think they’re legitimately from Iraq.
Opinions Begin to Shift as Public Weighs War Costs
By Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder
While 82 percent of whites said the United States should take military action to oust Mr. Hussein, just 44 percent of blacks said they supported that approach. In addition, 71 percent of whites said they were proud of what the United States was doing in Iraq, compared with 33 percent of blacks.
The findings reflected directly on Mr. Bush’s standing among African-Americans. Thirty-four percent of blacks said they approved of the job he is doing, compared with 75 percent of whites.
The finding comes as a number of black political leaders have been at the forefront of the antiwar movement, arguing that young black men and women would be disproportionately represented on the front lines, and that the war would drain federal money that should be spent on domestic programs.
“I have a sick feeling about all the young lives that are going to be destroyed,” said Geraldine Hunter, 75, a black Democrat in Cleveland. “I don’t know why Bush was in such a hurry to go to war.”
Latifa Palmer, 29, of Chino, Calif., who is also black, said: “If you don’t mess with them, they won’t mess with us. Bush telling Saddam to leave his country would be like Saddam telling Bush to leave his country.”
The soldiers are the ones who need our prayers — not the man who single-handedly placed them all in danger. This is just plain weird.
US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush
US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush
They may be the ones facing danger on the battlefield, but US soldiers in Iraq are being asked to pray for President George W Bush.
Thousands of marines have been given a pamphlet called “A Christian’s Duty,” a mini prayer book which includes a tear-out section to be mailed to the White House pledging the soldier who sends it in has been praying for Bush.
“I have committed to pray for you, your family, your staff and our troops during this time of uncertainty and tumult. May God’s peace be your guide,” says the pledge, according to a journalist embedded with coalition forces.
The pamphlet, produced by a group called In Touch Ministries, offers a daily prayer to be made for the US president, a born-again Christian who likes to invoke his God in speeches.
Sunday’s is “Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding”.
Monday’s reads “Pray that the President and his advisers will be strong and courageous to do what is right regardless of critics”.
I’m in a hurry and I realized that my plan for this morning consisted of republishing the links that t r u t h o u t had prepared for me this morning.
So I’m going to just shamelessly republish them here.
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Air Raids Pound Baghdad, 50+ Civilians Dead
Outspoken Army General Upsets White House
A ‘Turkey Shoot,’ but With Marines as Targets
Robert Fisk | Raw, Devastating Realities About Basra
News From Iraq Causes Americans to Think Again
Analyst: ‘Mass Destruction Weapons Need to be Found’
Bush Frustrated with Media Coverage of War
Missteps with Turkey Prove Costly
Jesse Jackson Jr. | From Gunboat Diplomacy To Gunpoint Democracy
Paul Krugman | Delusions of Power