( CNN ) - The statement offered no specifics and repeated a warning issued this month that Americans in the United Arab Emirates should “exercise caution and take prudent measures to maintain their security,” including avoiding crowds and keeping a low profile.
The policies of the current U.S. Administration are making it dangerous to be an […]

( Independent.co.uk ) - A former military aide to General Norman Schwarzkopf has warned that a US-led war against Iraq could turn into a disaster that echoes the bloody debacle of Somalia rather than the relatively painless 1991 Gulf war.
Something for the pro-war camp to think about.

U.S. policy could threaten international trade, aides warn
( IHT ) - In a break from years of unwavering public faith in the United States, top officials at the World Trade Organization are worried that the Bush administration’s go-it-alone policy is threatening international trade.
The third paragraph of the article states:
In the past months the United States […]

( Charlies Soap Box ) - America is in imminent danger. You’re either for her or against her. There is no middle ground.
Guess we know where Charlie stands on the issue now don’t we?
Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long distance truck driver that you don’t think Saddam Hussein is […]

The U.K. Telegraph carried this op/ed article last week forwarded to me by a right winger convinced that my conversion to the cause is still a possibility.
The following paragraph in the article speculates that the U.S. may take a temporary leave of the U.N. if their war is not sanctioned.
Well-connected advisers tell me that if, […]

A State Department report disputes Bush’s claim that ousting Hussein will spur reforms in the Mideast, intelligence officials say.
( LA Times ) - A classified State Department report expresses doubt that installing a new regime in Iraq will foster the spread of democracy in the Middle East, a claim President Bush has made in trying […]

BuzzMachine (a right wing blog I read now and again - it’s good to know what they’re thinking these days) seems to be taking issue with a group out in B.C. selling I Am Not American t-shirts.
Personally I would rather have an “I Am Canadian” t-shirt… I wonder if this sort of thing will replace […]

( Fox News ) - Signaling impatience with the Turkish government, the Pentagon on Friday began moving warships out of the Mediterranean into the Red Sea, where they could launch long-range cruise missiles on a path to Iraq that would not go over Turkey, officials said.
Now that yet another country has made it clear to […]

Bush Calls Upon ‘Coalition of the Willing to be Bought’
( Borowitz Report ) - In a stunning development, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein today offered to attack himself in exchange for $30 billion from the U.S. government.
The surprising offer came in a day when President George W. Bush exhorted America’s allies to join what he called […]

Both Fox News and ABC News are reporting that the Iraqi army is repositioning itself into southern Iraq - given that Turkey has said that the U.S. cannot use it’s country (and more than likely not even its air space) to create a northern front it makes sense for the Iraqi army to do this.
We […]

( Ipsos-Reid ) - March 10, 2003: If the election were held today, only 39% of registered voters are sure they would vote for the reelection of President George W. Bush, and 34% would definitely vote for someone else, a five-point margin in the President’s favor, in a poll conducted February 18-20 and March 4-6, […]

There is an note stating
House Judiciary ranking member John Conyers (D-Mich.) assembled more than two-dozen prominent liberal attorneys and legal scholars on Tuesday to mull over articles of impeachment drafted against President Bush by activists seeking to block military action against Saddam Hussein. ROLL CALL is reporting on Thursday.
Could we dare hope?

( Ananova ) - A device that replaces part of the brain is about to be tested.
If this story is even close to true I think that the entire U.S. Administration should line up and get one each - they seem to be having a lot of difficulity both remembering history and who their friends […]

( Boston.com ) - A remotely piloted aircraft that the United States has warned could spread chemical weapons appears to be made of balsa wood and duct tape, with two small propellors attached to what look like the engines of a weed whacker.

Could this be used for spreading chemical or biochemical weapons? The US […]

( BBC News ) - Development agency USAid has shortlisted five US companies for a $900m contract to rebuild Iraq - so is post-war reconstruction an American stitch-up?
For Tam Dalyell, a Labour member of parliament, it was “vomit-making”.
Indeed, there is something nauseous in the news that the US Government is handing out contracts […]