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My previous item got me to post about something war-related that I’ve been thinking about since the war started. Clearly, the moral authority for our going to war rests on the fact that our plan is to liberate the Iraqis from the brutal regime that controls the country. That’s why the operation is called [...]

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Stories like this one illustrate the price of war, not only on innocent bystanders but on the humanity of the combatants as well.

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I’m probably like most people in that the large majority of my media consuming attention right now is being paid to the war. However, there’s lots of other stuff going on that bears monitoring as well, one of which being the so-called Super-DMCA, which would do lots of preposterous stuff. Anyway, right now the definitive [...]

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Things I want to write something about but can’t, for lack of anything meaningful or enlightening to say:

SARS Peter Arnett The suicide bombing in Iraq.

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The Rumsfeld-bustin’ Seymour Hersh article I mentioned this weekend is now available online. If it seems like I detest Donald Rumsfeld, it’s because I do. He’s the kind of guy who makes you feel like if you weren’t an idiot, you’d understand why it was OK for him grant himself a $15,000,000 bonus the same year [...]

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Colin Powell has joined Donald Rumsfeld in making belligerent statements against Syria and Iran. Odd to think that Syria joined with coalition forces in the Gulf War in 1991, and now they’re saying flat out that they want to see us lose this war. Does anyone think that a transformation in the Middle East toward [...]

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Tacoma the dolphin has returned. This is the story that never ends.

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Seymour Hersh already took down Richard Perle, and now it looks like Donald Rumsfeld is going to be his next victim. Now that the war in Iraq has turned out not to be a cakewalk, the criticism of Rumsfeld’s insistence on using the minimum number of troops possible is mounting, and the Hersh article could [...]

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Last summer, I brought up an Army Times article that discussed the resignation of Paul Van Riper from Millenium Challenge 2002, a wargame designed to test tactics that could be used in a war with Iraq. Van Riper was the leader of the simulated opposing forces, and quit because he was unhappy that the people [...]

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Remember the mine-clearing dolphins I mentioned yesterday? One of them is AWOL.

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