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Sunday, October 05, 2003
Poorly organized sarcasm From the "this justifies the invasion" file, Mary Carmichael of Newsweek writes: Investigators have found evidence of biological weapons in Iraq, NEWSWEEK has learned. The discovery was made south of Mosul, in the ruins of a desert fortress at Hatra. And the weapons are ... not what you think.*** I suppose this is good news if you are into appeasing evil. *** *** *** Glad to see that the Road Map is moving into Syria. *** Somebody doesn't understand how the world works. *** Wrong! Evil countries -or is that people- get weapons of mass destruction to attack the U.S. That's why we are attacked with them so often. North Korea obviously is planning to soon attack the us, for instance. *** This makes a lot of sense: Peter Camejo, who I know a bit and greatly respect, should follow Arianna's lead and drop out. He's run a principled, non-argumentative campaign, acting like an adult when others were having pie fights, and in doing so has genuinely impressed many people. More than a few non-Greens told me they watched Camejo during the debate and said "Wow, who IS that guy" - so Peter has done an admirable job indeed.But in 2004 the only way to defeat fascism will be to defeat Bush by electing a Democrat and then in 2006... *** Despite the tone of this entry, I'm going to try to be positive over the next few days. UPDATE: I've decided that being positive for me means posts without irony, sarcasm, satire or other similarly disreputable elements. I'll try to be "positive" but no guarantees that I'll sound like the focus of a Behind the Music episode talking in the final segment. (I took some time off to get my head together and now I am ready to truly be the greatest rapper from Idaho who would have been big in the early 1990s if I'd had Eminem, not Vanilla Ice, as my role model by making my new show on the Pax successful.) Whatever the case, those positivisms won't start till tomorrow so I want to point that things sure are looking nice in the Middle East and James Sullivan of the San Francisco Chronicle and/or his editor(s) should be embarrassed about writing: In the 1960s, if you were going to San Francisco, you were sure to wear some flowers in your hair. In the 1980s, the flower would have been in your lapel. And it would have squirted water.The notable thing is that the article that's well worth reading. 7:16 p.m. 10/05/03 UPDATE #2: Natalie Davis has alerted me to an interesting story. Jason Allardyce and Brian Brady of The Scotsman write: TONY Blair privately admitted on the eve of war in Iraq that Saddam Hussein did not have any useable weapons of mass destruction, Robin Cook, the former Foreign Secretary, has claimed.The other side. 9:35 p.m. 10/05/03 |