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Flooding the Zone

lilboo — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:33:40 -0800

The Iraq problem solved. George Saunders has got it all figured out. (from the New Yorker natch.)

"General Rumsfeld"

skallas — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:36:37 -0800

"General Rumsfeld" “This is tragic,” one senior planner said bitterly. “American lives are being lost.” The former intelligence official told me, “They all said, ‘We can do it with air power.’ They believed their own propaganda.”

Wanna bet?

adrober — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:35:01 -0800

Wanna bet we'll win the war? No, seriously: you can. Check it out yourself: Go here and click on "World Events" to see the odds for "The US Embassy in Pakistan Being Blown Up By A Nuclear Weapon" or "Date Line In Which Osama Bin Laden Will Be Consigned (Dead or Alive) To US Authorities." Ah, America.

cell divide — Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:15:27 -0800

This New Yorker article is a must read. Long and exhaustive (but well worth the trip), I believe it could have the power to change many minds about what should be done, and when, about Iraq and its dictator. The essential story is about the horrible and terrifying effects of Saddam Hussein's gassing of Kurdish villages, but as the story reminds us at the end "Please understand, the Kurds were for practice"