Reuters reports that the U.N. has less than 50 foreign staff left in Iraq after last week-ends pull out. How’s that for an international vote of non-confidence in the U.S.-led coalition’s ability to keep the peace?
Rumsfeld is now saying that the $87 billion U.S. needed for Iraq is not only “affordable” but that it is […]

As ya’ll know I take fits and wander around in the right-wing of the blogosphere every now and again to see what’s important to them - once in a while a little gem like this pops up.
A state can guarantee freedom, but only one such State exists on earth…the USA.
(Emphasis mine)
Apparently places like Canada, […]

White House Says Top Aide Was Not Behind C.I.A. Leak
( NY Times ) - The White House said today that it was “ridiculous” for anyone to suggest that President Bush’s top political adviser had leaked secret information in an effort to discredit an outspoken critic of Mr. Bush’s policy on Iraq.
Just maybe they would have […]

[Guardian Unlimited] US kills three more in Sunni triangle
Standing by the grave of his dead brother, Sheikh Abed Asalam Jamil says he is happy and calls for a jihad against the US Army. ‘Everyone in Iraq is a mujahid,’ says the imam, whose brother, Zamal Jamil al-Juleimi, was killed on Friday night as he […]

All the news, as it happens, from the our intrepid man on the scene.
Quijiibo has advised that he will remain on the 11th floor of his dorm over-looking Halifax harbour for the course of this event and provide up-to-date information as events unfold - he also hopes to get his assignment (due tomorrow morning) […]

U.S. appointed Iraqi administrator Paul Bremer says:
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia should give up their reparation claims for Iraq’s 1990 invasion and the subsequent Persian Gulf War because those two wealthy countries have 10 times the amount of money that Iraq does, the American administrator for Iraq said Friday.
According to the article western countries have suspended […]

( Yahoo News ) - Hurricane Juan headed for landfall in eastern Canada on Sunday with 100 mph wind, and storm surge flooding of about 3 feet was expected along parts of the coast of Nova Scotia
One of our sons is attending SMU in Halifax so he’s in for some windy weather…. fortunately he’s on […]

A little humour today from an email list I am on:
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is […]

There is a bit of a discussion going on regarding religion that includes references to the decline of christianity and the growth of other religions in the U.S., so I thought I’d see how things were going here in Canada in that regard.
In 2001 72.9% of the population professed to be Christian, 16.5% professed no […]

( Baghdad Burning ) - This media free-for-all lasted for about two months. Then, some newspapers were ‘warned’ that some of their political content was unacceptable- especially when discussing occupation forces.
One or two papers were actually shut down, while others were made to retract some of what they had written. The news channels followed […]

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( NY Times ) - Yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell met with Times editors. Asked whether Americans would have supported this war if weapons of mass destruction had not been at issue, Mr. Powell said the question was too hypothetical to answer. Asked if he, personally, would have supported it, he […]

… signs are growing that Iraq is bigger problem than expected.
( SFGate ) - Wear and tear on tanks in Iraq is outpacing the Army’s efforts to repair and resupply. The administration is scrambling to find thousands more troops by early next year. Stressed American soldiers are suddenly being given two-week vacations. … Pentagon […]

Haven’t we been down this road before?
( PalTribune ) - The Afghan government has welcomed a call by Human Rights Watch (HRW) to US President George W Bush, asking him to withdraw financial support and arms deliveries to regional warlords and military commanders tied to rights abuses in the beleagured Central Asian state.
Maybe it’s time […]

Possibly subtitled: Maybe we got what we deserved by being lazy.
( cascfen ) - HRW - The Bush administration should press publicly for free and fair elections in Azerbaijan, Human Rights Watch said today [24 Sept 2003].
Azerbaijan’s presidential elections are scheduled for October 15. In a letter to President George W. Bush, Human Rights […]

Cleaning up America’s mess: Washington sought world support for its unilateral invasion of Iraq, but the world declined to give the US an easy ride.
In his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan rebuked United States President George W Bush for the “preemptive” strike on Iraq. […]