April 9, 2003





"We wish you success when the political winds shift as they invariably do when partisan, ill-informed, narrow-minded, jingoistic views from the far right fall out of favor with viewers, and you return to objectively reporting national, international and business news." - viewer email actually read on-air by GOP cabana boy Lou Dobbs, 4/8/03.




The 'coalition' forces are pouring into Baghdad like sh!t through a goose. What I'm still waiting to find out is

  • Where's Saddam?
  • Where are the WMD?? and what's wrong with this picture:
  • Baghdad 'liberated,' US citizens fired upon in California - link.




    Yes, but....Saddam's out of power!
    '[A]n odd thing has happened to Bush as the war has progressed. He has not grown in stature or gravitas, as wartime leaders usually do; he may have diminished. He seems imprisoned in a bleak, hortatory rhetoric of simple sentences and simpler ideas. Freedom good. Tyranny bad. We Tarzan, world Jane.
    'It may seem petty to quibble over presidential style as the troops storm Baghdad and the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime appears imminent, but this war hasn't been nearly so simple as Bush has pretended - and his simplicity may be doing significant damage to America in the world. The military campaign has been a success, but it is far from clear that victory in Iraq will be a net positive in the larger war on terrorism or even, ultimately, that it will be seen as an American foreign-policy success.
    'Iraq may well be found to have stashes of chemical and biological weapons, perhaps even a nuclear program, but the fact that such weapons haven't been used in the field is not insignificant. It cuts into the American story line: that this was a dangerous, outlaw regime ready to go to any lengths to stay in power. And if no major stashes are found - a vial here, a warhead there simply won't do - America's credibility will be severely damaged.' - snipped from Joe Klein's column here.



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