Monthly Archives: March 2003

Democrat Believes Bush is a Terrorist

In one of the most brutal critiques of the administration’s policy toward Iraq by a member of Congress, East Bay Rep. Pete Stark said President Bush would be responsible for “an act of terror” by launching a massive bombing campaign to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

“I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war . . . to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism,” said Stark, a Democrat from Fremont.

- SFGate.com

The Democrats are going to start referring to the President as “Bush the Satan” any day now.

Updates from Baghdad

It is even too late for last minute things to buy, there are too few shops open. We went again for a drive thru Baghdad’s main streets. Too depressing. I have never seen Baghdad like this. Today the Ba’ath party people started taking their places in the trenches and main squares and intersections, fully armed and freshly shaven. They looked too clean and well groomed to defend anything. And the most shocking thing was the number of kids. They couldn’t be older than 20, sitting in trenches sipping Miranda fizzy drinks and eating chocolate (that was at the end of our street) other places you would see them sitting bored in the sun. more cars with guns and loads of Kalashnikovs everywhere.

Where is Raed? (Iraqi Blogger)

I hope those kids have enough sense to put down the AKs and walk away.

Saddam’s Frontline Troops

We should remember when we see them that the peace demonstrators, in their acute and often wilful naivete, remain Mr. Saddam’s only effective frontline troops, his single waning hope to keep Iraq enslaved. For the rest, the U.S. and their allies have devised elaborate contingencies, and let’s pray they all work.

- Canada.com