WTF Is It Now?!?

Heavy US casualties in Iraq attack
September 18, 2003: US forces took heavy casualties in a series of attacks on an American convoy in the town of Khaldiyah, west of Baghdad, witnesses here said. They said the attack was focused on a vehicle containing about 10 US soldiers that caught fire, and that several burned Americans were taken from the vehicle. - - link

Supporting our troops
Pay cuts possible for National Guard soldiers in Mideast. - - link.


Iraqi scientist: Iraq had no nuclear program after Gulf War
A senior official in Iraq's new science ministry says the country never revived its nuclear program after U.N. inspectors dismantled it in the 1990's. Abbas Balasem, an official of the new U.S.-backed administration in Baghdad, said Tuesday Iraqi scientists had no way to re-start the program because the inspectors took away all the necessary resources.

The former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix echoed those sentiments, telling Australian radio he believes Iraq destroyed almost all of the weapons of mass destruction it had in the summer of 1991 - a position Iraq constantly maintained. - - link.

Bunnypants and British PM Tony 'Piddles' Blair have said the search for WMD will take time and that evidence will eventually be uncovered.

"The patience that they require for themselves now was not anything that they wanted to give to us," responded Hans Blix.

Explosion reported at oil pipeline in northern Iraq
An explosion along the main oil pipeline from Iraq to Turkey triggered a large fire early Thursday near the northern Iraqi town of Bayji, witnesses said. The explosion occurred about dawn just north of Bayji, north of Baghdad, the witnesses said. The cause of the blast could not be immediately determined and the extent of damage was unclear. - - Globe 'n' Mail.

Flashback
to rebooblican hypocrisy

"After the qagmire of Vietnam, Americans deserve the clearest possible explanation of the reasons and objectives for war whenever the nation edges toward one." - - from "Clinton Faces Rocky Path In Iraq Crisis," 2/98, CNN (thanks to ScottB).