:: Has the whole world gone mad or is it just me. ::

:: Saturday, April 12, 2003 ::

I KNEW there was a secret plan!!!!!
American Politics Journal -- Saddam May Use "WPDs" After His Death! Steve's* WPD UPDATE OF THE DAY
*An extreme far-centrist foundation!
Saddam May Use "WPDs" After His Death!
Wily Hussein's plan hailed for posthumous brilliance.
by Steve Young

April 7, 2003 -- LOS ANGELES (apj.us) -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld believes that Saddam Hussein, once dead, will be more dangerous than ever.

"We cannot be lulled to sleep by this guy's lack of life," warned Rumsfeld. "We?ve tracked a lot of noise in recent days hinting that immediately following his death, Hussein will release his hidden weapons of mass destruction which would take a terrible toll on the coalition forces. With Chemical Ali now officially dead, the Iraqi plan is working perfectly."

While there has been support at the White House for this new position, there has been a severe split within the administration as to when the WMDs will be used. The faction supporting security advisor, Condolleeza Rice, believes that Hussein is readying an even more devious plan.

"We?ve got some pretty good evidence that Hussein will not hit us right away," said Rice, "but will wait until his body has been fully consumed by maggots and ravenous larva, then with his still growing fingernails reaching their necessary length, he will use them to signal for release of WMDs and bio-terror."
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 'April 9 will live in legend' 'April 9 will live in legend'

Global reaction to the dramatic events in the Iraqi capital

Friday April 11, 2003
The Guardian

Al-Quds Editorial, Jerusalem, April 10

"With the fall of the capital of Arab capitals, the hopes the [Palestinian] nation pinned on Baghdad's steadfastness and fight against the agressors have been shattered ... The fall of Baghdad is a catastrophe, but it will not be the last one. The Anglo-American victory will encourage the colonialists to swallow more Arab capitals and shape the Arab world politically, culturally and socially in a way that satisfies Washington and London. They will thus manipulate Arab and Islamic culture into a distorted image of the west's materialist culture."
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Looting, hmmmmm. Maybe these Iragis WILL be good capitalists.

Los Angeles Times: Crowds Loot Government Ministries http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/battle/la-iraq-040903looting_lat,1,5148918.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dheadlines

LAT UPDATE

Crowds Loot Government Ministries

Two smiling little boys haul plastic buckets brimming with stolen desk blotters, staplers, pens and paper clips in a scene repeated throughout the capital.
By David Zucchino
Times Staff Writer


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Coalition of the Billing is more like it.Los Angeles Times: Broke Allies Make for a Bankrupt War http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-war-oebelli9apr09,1,1082045.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Doped%2Dmanual

Broke Allies Make for a Bankrupt War
By Gioconda Belli

April 9, 2003
The fact that Nicaragua is a member of the mismatched coalition supporting the U.S. war on Iraq has become an endless source of banter in my country.

A recent e-mail forwarded to me titled "Letter from President Enrique Bolanos to President Bush" outlined the plan that the highest authorities in Nicaragua, the poorest country in Latin America, after Haiti, would have devised to support the coalition forces:

"1. We will cut the water supply to our major cities to collect 100,000 barrels that the coalition will be able to use as chemical and biological weapons.

"2. We will support the air campaign by sending to Iraq 300 million mosquitoes, from our ample supply, to infect the Iraqi troops with malaria and dengue fever.

"3. We will infiltrate the Iraqi Cabinet with some of our financial advisors to starve the Iraqi army and Iraqi people to death."

Humor underscores the feeling most Nicaraguans have about our government's willingness to join the coalition put together by Bush: It is an empty gesture, a sort of political prostitution aimed at obtaining badly needed funds for our country. Bolanos is, in fact, meeting with President Bush in Washington this week, hoping to claim his reward: more than $500 million in aid from Washington.

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I hope Bushie doesnt get too mad when they target him for destruction. Fair is fair after all.

Strike targets Saddam -- The Washington Times Strike targets Saddam
By Rowan Scarborough and Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES



?????The U.S.-led coalition bombed a Baghdad commercial block yesterday after receiving a tip that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was there, while across town the U.S. Army parked its tanks on the Tigris River in the front yard of one of the dictator's largest palaces.
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Oh My !! Whay a surprise!!
(Pretty soon they will be planting the Marijuana in Iraq's pockets tho._
U.S. Tests Indicate Iraq Substances Not Banned Arms (washingtonpost.com) U.S. Tests Indicate Iraq Substances Not Banned Arms


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'Nuff Said?

Los Angeles Times: The U.S. Betrays Its Core Values
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-war-oegrass7apr07,1,6186031.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions

COMMENTARY

The U.S. Betrays Its Core Values

Having learned from its past, Germany rightly rejects Bush's war and his disdain of the U.N.
By Gunter Grass
Times Staff Writer

April 7, 2003
BEHLENDORF, Germany -- A war long sought and planned for is now underway. All deliberations and warnings of the United Nations notwithstanding, an overpowering military apparatus has attacked preemptively in violation of international law. No objections were heeded. The Security Council was disdained and scorned as irrelevant. As the bombs fall and the battle for Baghdad continues, the law of might prevails.

And based on this injustice, the mighty have the power to buy and reward those who might be willing and to disdain and even punish the unwilling. The words of the current American president -- "Those not with us are against us" -- weighs on current events with the resonance of barbaric times. It is hardly surprising that the rhetoric of the aggressor increasingly resembles that of his enemy. Religious fundamentalism leads both sides to abuse what belongs to all religions, taking the notion of "God" hostage in accordance with their own fanatical understanding. Even the passionate warnings of the pope, who knows from experience how lasting and devastating the disasters wrought by the mentality and actions of Christian crusaders have been, were unsuccessful.

Disturbed and powerless, but also filled with anger, we are witnessing the moral decline of the world's only superpower, burdened by the knowledge that only one consequence of this organized madness is certain: Motivation for more terrorism is being provided, for more violence and counter-violence. Is this really the United States of America, the country we fondly remember for any number of reasons? The generous benefactor of the Marshall Plan? The forbearing instructor in the lessons of democracy? The candid self-critic? The country that once made use of the teachings of the European Enlightenment to throw off its colonial masters and to provide itself with an exemplary constitution? Is this the country that made freedom of speech an incontrovertible human right?

It is not just foreigners who cringe as this ideal pales to the point where it is now a caricature of itself. There are many Americans who love their country too, people who are horrified by the betrayal of their founding values and by the hubris of those holding the reins of power. I stand with them. By their side, I declare myself pro-American. I protest with them against the brutalities brought about by the injustice of the mighty, against all restrictions of the freedom of expression, against information control reminiscent of the practices of totalitarian states and against the cynical equations that make the death of thousands of women and children acceptable so long as economic and political interests are protected.

No, it is not anti-Americanism that is damaging the image of the United States; nor do the dictator Saddam Hussein and his extensively disarmed country endanger the most powerful country in the world. It is President Bush and his government that are diminishing democratic values, bringing sure disaster to their own country, ignoring the United Nations, and that are now terrifying the world with a war in violation of international law.

We Germans often are asked if we are proud of our country. To answer this question has always been a burden. There were reasons for our doubts. But now I can say that the rejection of this preemptive war on the part of a majority in my country has made me proud of Germany. After having been largely responsible for two world wars and their criminal consequences, we seem to have made a difficult step. We seem to have learned from history.

The Federal Republic of Germany has been a sovereign country since 1990. Our government made use of this sovereignty by having the courage to object to those allied in this cause, the courage to protect Germany from a step back to a kind of adolescent behavior. I thank Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, for their fortitude in spite of all the attacks and accusations, from abroad and from within.

Many people find themselves in a state of despair these days, and with good reason. Yet we must not let our voices, our no to war and yes to peace, be silenced. What has happened? The stone that we pushed to the peak is once again at the foot of the mountain. But we must push it back up, even with the knowledge that we can expect it to roll back down again.
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Actually , I thought this was settled by the Nuremburg trials.

Los Angeles Times: Protesting Against the War as Bombs Fall http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-protest7apr07,1,1332924.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dletters

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Protesting Against the War as Bombs Fall

April 7, 2003
As I stand on various L.A. street corners holding my peace flag, I and my fellow protesters are often confronted by angry and sometimes even physically threatening fellow citizens who believe that civil liberties are null and void once American bombs are being dropped on faraway cities. One hears in the media the often-repeated canard that once a war is in progress, it is our duty as Americans to shut up and wave the Stars and Stripes.
For years we have been asking the agonizing question, "Why did the German people stay silent when their government was flexing its muscle and committing atrocities?" Could it be that it was blind patriotism, a population supporting its government in wartime despite the moral reprehensibility of its acts?
America is engaged in an immoral war. If those of us who see the truth allow ourselves to be silenced, we would be as culpable as the German citizenry. I believe in the power of democracy, and the honking horns and peace signs that greet us as we stand on those corners prove that there is hope that this administration will not succeed in eradicating it.
Victoria E. Thompson
Sierra Madre

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