Reports of Tony Blair’s political demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Another demonstration that if you lead, they will follow.

The Command Post still has nothing on this, but Fox is reporting that Kuwaiti and Iranian news sources are describing an uprising in east Baghdad and Basra of Shia civilians agains the regime.

I don’t have any sympathy for the Fedayeen and Ba’athist officials who will no doubt meet their well-deserved fates here, but I suspect their end will be much nastier than if they’d simply been killed by coalition forces. And hopefully many of the foreigner jihadis will meet a timely denouement as well.

[Update at 8:50 PDT]

Here’s a link to the story from the Kuwaiti news agency.

Mr. Blix is “curious” as to whether or not we’ll find WMD in Iraq.

Between this, and the fantasy pronouncements of the Iraqi information minister, this would be comical and farcical if it weren’t so tragic.

Mr. Blix is “curious” as to whether or not we’ll find WMD in Iraq.

Between this, and the fantasy pronouncements of the Iraqi information minister, this would be comical and farcical if it weren’t so tragic.

Mr. Blix is “curious” as to whether or not we’ll find WMD in Iraq.

Between this, and the fantasy pronouncements of the Iraqi information minister, this would be comical and farcical if it weren’t so tragic.

Jim Oberg emails to point out that many people in the Saddam-on-the-street video are holding and waving weapons. It’s inconceivable that the real Saddam would allow people to be that close to him at all, let alone with automatic rifles. It would be too easy for someone to solve the Iraqi peoples’ problem with a single burst.

Though, I suppose they could have issued guns with empty clips.

Pfc. Lynch’s rescuers had no shovel, so they dug up the remains of the others with their bare hands.

The article also has some additional details on ther rescue:

“Jessica Lynch,” called out an American soldier, approaching her bed. “We are United States soldiers and we’re here to protect you and take you home.”

Peering from behind the sheet as he removed his helmet, she looked up and said, “I’m an American soldier, too.”

Here’s a “philosopher” who thinks that Bush is a new Nero, and that the US is a “pathocracy” and “theocracy.” Also, anyone who doesn’t see this as clearly as he does is nuts.

I think he’s projecting, myself.

British troops have discovered a warehouse filled with mutilated bodies in southern Iraq. It may be remains of victims of the 1991 Shia uprising.

I was flipping satellite channels tonight, and I ran across the supposedly classic “The Day The Earth Stood Still.” I’m kind of appalled that this was some of the best that the fifties had to offer for SF, because it seemed pretty schlocky to me, but that’s from someone speaking from the century of the Jetsons.

Anyway, it did occur to me that there were some interesting parallels between it and what we’re attempting to accomplish in the Middle East.

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