I didn’t previously make any comments on the missing explosives story on this blog(although I did make several comments on other blogs) but this information is interesting
The Washington Times reports:
Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein’s weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 […]
This movie looks very interesting. Sadly, it won’t be shown in my area, but I am seriously thinking of purchasing a copy.
(via Smack my Booty)
From Iraq the Model comes this letter by prominent Arab Liberals to the U.N.
It points out the danger of terrorist inciting Fatwas and calls upon the U.N. to establish an international tribunal to prosecute individuals who use religion to incite terrorist acts.
I am not entirely in favor of their plan, but the fact that such […]
Blackfive posts a letter from British Historian, Paul Johnson.
There is something grimly admirable about his stoicism in the face of reverses, which reminds me of other moments in history: the dark winter Washington faced in 1777-78, a time to “try men’s souls,” as Thomas Paine put it, and the long succession of military failures Lincoln […]
Orin Kerr, at the Volokh Conspiracy, has a detailed analysis of the FBI, Indymedia, Rackspace server shutdown story. His conclusion:
To summarize, it seems highly likely that the FBI only served an order to disclose information on Rackspace. Rackspace was lazy, though, and instead, on its own volition, handed over the entire server (to whom, […]
International Herald Tribune:
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has called on the United States to dip into its strategic petroleum reserve to help deflate oil prices, the cartel’s president said Wednesday.
“We had communication with them,” OPEC’s president, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, told reporters, referring to U.S. policy makers. “I asked them to use their reserves.”
Purnomo, who […]
Sayyid Ahmed Al-Safi, a representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, reiterated during the Friday prayers sermon at Karbala the call of the Maji’iya for widespread participation and voting in the upcoming elections late January 2005. Al-Safi stressed that ‘heavy participation in the voting procedures is a national and legal (religious) duty,’ adding that those who […]
From Today’s Bleat:
Is it instructive to note which side Sen. Kerry instinctively inhabited in the 80s? Apparently not. Because now he knows that if terrorists strike, he runs the risk of discrediting his party. Got that? Runs the risk. Of discrediting his party. Of all that the theats he might face, apparently that’s the one […]
This TCS Article points out some interesting similarities between this election and the Dewey vs. Truman contest of 1948.
For Bush supporters, this is good news:
Which brings us to the lesson about the electoral map. The past century has seen four elections that pitted the South and West against the Northeast (along with, today, […]
This Wall Street Journal op-ed makes a lot of points that I have tried to make better than I have.
Yet who ever said war is easy? On the eve of the war, in 2003, we wrote that “the law of unintended consequences has not been repealed, no war ever goes precisely as planned,” and that […]
