While everyone else is wondering

Just why the British P.M. is backing G.W. Bush and his call for war the BBspot has figured it out and posted the story.

Did he cry wolf too often?

The Ottawa Citizen is reporting that the Iraqi government has forwarded a letter to the U.N. Secretary stating that it fears that the U.S. government may plant evidence that “Baghdad retains weapons of mass desctuction in an attempt to justify an invasion.”

In a departure from the usual

Usually what gets put here is political in nature, with the more random ramblings, musings, and humour, saved for my discussion forum. Since the server the forum lives on seems to be experiencing some sort of technical difficulity rendering it unreachable I’ll just put this here.

A Public Service Announcement

Nuff said

This does seem a bit strange, but…..

Having Iraq as the chair of a conference on disarmament does seem a bit odd given the days we are living in (and the right wing is certainly screaming bloody murder about it) but then again if you have a look at the list of countries involved in the conference maybe not. There are some [...]

Pots and kettles, pots and kettles

2002 was marked by significant steps backward on human rights. The arbitrary detention of non-citizens, secret deportation hearings for persons suspected of connections to terrorism, the authorization of military commissions to try non-citizen terrorists, the failure to abide by the Geneva Conventions in the treatment of detainees held by the United States in Cuba, and [...]

It couldn’t be said better than this

The spectacle of the United States, armed with its weapons of mass destruction, acting without Security Council authority to invade a country in the heartland of Arabia and, if necessary, use its weapons of mass destruction to win that battle, is something that will so deeply violate any notion of fairness in this world that [...]

And when they counted the votes……

…..the results were:
Attack now: 4 (Bulgaria, Spain, the United States and Britain )
Give the inspectors time to do a decent job: 11 (France, Russia and China, which all have veto power, as well as Germany, Mexico, Chile, Guinea, Cameroon, Syria, Angola and Pakistan)
I’m not gonna give odds on cooler heads making any difference here but [...]

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Even Stormin Norman thinks so
The last guy to go in and kick Saddams ass has joined the growing ranks of people who think that the U.S. Administration is jumping the gun on this whole Iraq thing. According to the story “He worries about the Iraqi leader, but would like to see some persuasive evidence of [...]

Not political at all

But I bet it is controversial as far as the conventional religious mythologies are concerned so it gets a home on Stage Left.
This article found on the CNN.com/Science & Space pages may be a little old but it sure is interesting and provides the following image of what Jesus may have looked like.

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Iraq largely cooperating……
Says this article at Yahoo News. While the Iraqi government did not get a glowing report of undying co-operation and friendliness neither did the U.S. get the the smoking gun it was looking for.
So we’re back where we started a few months ago. The Iraqi government will claim that they have no weapons [...]

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Canada makes its decision
At long last Canada seems to have made a statement on its position on the U.S. led war on Iraq.

OTTAWA, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Canada sided with
France and Germany over the Iraq crisis on Monday,
saying U.N inspectors needed more time to carry
out their search for evidence that Baghdad still had
weapons of mass [...]

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Strategies and all that stuff
Are things that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld doesn’t think are needed according to a private memo to his top aid and reported on in this article in the Washington Times.
Now don’t that make ya sleep easier at night folks?

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The folks back home are not gonna be happy about this
According to this article in the Denver Post the Pentagon is considering the option of bulldozing the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed by chemical or biological weapons in Iraq or future wars into mass graves and burning them to save the lives of surviving troops.
Now [...]

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Stupid People?
I “sort of” agree with Chuck Sigars when he says in this article that:

Even really stupid people, in this age of cable
news and the Internet, can find the facts. Even
really stupid people can discern truth from fiction,
given all the tools at our disposal.

It should read “even really stupid people should, in this age…….”, but [...]