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.

There’s a comments box below. Discuss.

The San Jose Mercury says that the Marines just fought their “biggest battle of the war.”

Results?

Three lost tanks, eight wounded.

Here comes a potentially interesting showdown, from a federalism standpoint.

Mark Steyn says that the war is pretty much over. But the key point is in the last graf:

But, for everyone other than media naysayers, it’s the Anglo-Aussie-American side who are the geniuses. Rumsfeld’s view that one shouldn’t do it with once-a-decade force, but with a lighter, faster touch has been vindicated, with interesting implications for other members of the axis of evil and its reserve league.

Yup. One of the benefits of doing this was to show that Afghanistan wasn’t a fluke–we can pretty much take on any country we want, at least one that’s being run by thugs, and has no popular support, at relatively little cost.

Mr. Assad, Mr. Arafat, mullahs in Iran, Kim Jung Il, maybe even Mr. Mugabe, all take note.

There’s a new sheriff in town…