Saturday, March 22, 2003|
About the Kuwait attack on the 101st Airborne: Isn't sneaking in to an enemy facility and disrupting and/or killing leadership one of the things we ask our Special Ops or Delta Force commandos to do? Does that make them terrorists? Or is it only a terrorist act if it is committed by the "enemy"?
George Heath, a spokesman at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, home base of the 101st, said "one or more terrorists threw two hand grenades into a tent" at the camp near the Iraqi border.
I'm not trying to minimize what happened to members of our armed forces, but I don't see the difference in the actions. If we're at war, things like this will happen. Right? |
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Congress Makes Law, Not War. When the bombs began dropping on Baghdad last week, the only declaration in the Capitol was the one in support of President Bush and the troops. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg. [New York Times: Politics]
The votes then were overwhelming: 77 to 23 in the Senate, and 296 to 133 in the House. But some in Congress remain troubled, including Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who counts himself as a guardian of Senate traditions. "I have strong reservations about the assertion that the Congress has fully authorized this war against Iraq," Mr. Byrd said Thursday before voting to support the troops. "I do not believe that Congress can cede its Constitutional power to declare war to the President." 6:37:56 PM 
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Kuwait attack wounds US troops. Thirteen US troops are wounded in a grenade attack on a camp of the 101st Airborne Division in northern Kuwait. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
Correspondents say there are concerns in Kuwait about increasing hostility towards US troops, thousands of whom have been stationed in the country since the 1991 Gulf War. 6:35:35 PM
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Nick Denton is mapping the invasion of Iraq. [Scripting News] 6:32:27 PM
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Photos from Saturday's news. Sorry, I lost the link info, but they come from the Associated Press.
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A silver lining to all this war misery. People are getting politically active. If you ever doubted that your vote matters, now all doubt should be gone. Remember that next time you get a chance to say who runs things. [Scripting News] 4:54:26 PM
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Bush is an idiot, but he was right about Saddam. Paul Berman, one of the most provocative thinkers on the left, has a message for the antiwar movement: Stop marching and start fighting to spread liberal values in the Middle East. [Salon.com] 4:51:33 PM
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Thousands March in Manhattan Against War. More than 100,000 New Yorkers marched down Broadway today to voice their opposition to the ongoing war against Iraq. By Leslie Eaton. [New York Times: National]
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What It Means to Be From Texas. Foreign critics see President Bush as Billy the Kid lawless, violent, solitary and prone to shoot first and ask questions later. By Paul Burka. [New York Times: National]
Foreign critics see Mr. Bush as Billy the Kid [~] lawless, violent, solitary and prone to shoot first and ask questions later. Supporters see him as self-reliant, determined, straightforward, never one to look for trouble but never one to run from it. 4:40:26 PM
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Show of Awe: A Thrill Ride, but No Blood. The first scenes of the invasion of Iraq did more than bring viewers closer to the front lines of battle than ever before. It looked at warfare through an entirely new prism. By Alessandra Stanley. [New York Times: National]
This time, the Pentagon took viewers on a thrilling ride-along with the warriors. Videophones, portable satellites and night-sight scopes brought the world a riveting display of American power, but it was a sanitized look, showing a little sweat, not blood and tears. ...
A few [correspondents] seemed so caught up in the adrenaline of battle and the thrill of access they sounded like sports reporters on the sidelines of the Super Bowl. ...
Antiwar protests in the United States and throughout the Arab world were shown far more fleetingly. ...
Refugee camps, a staple of war reporting in other conflicts, paled next to the images of high-tech weaponry blazing in real time. Television also has a way of freeze-framing the deceptive beauty of war [~] the red and gold of burning government buildings along the Tigris River was almost painterly, like a sunset by Sisley. ...
Even as reports of American and British casualties grew, death has not been very evident on television in these early days. 4:37:11 PM
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TV's War News Coverage Outdrawn by Comedy Repeats
Reuters Friday, March 21, 2003; 5:21 PM 12:26:54 PM
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Explosion Kills Five in Northern Iraq [AP World News]
I'm afraid more of this is in the near future as we occupy Iraq. |
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Arab press agonises over war. As US-led forces increase their air attacks against Baghdad and move deeper into Iraq, the press reflects the sense of helplessness and anger throughout the Arab world. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
The war in the Arab territory of Iraq, where victims are being killed, invalidated all the humanitarian values invoked by the force which has launched the war. The least we can say is it is a clear aggression on an Arab independent state. The Americans, British and all those who took part in the war will pay a heavy price for this adventure. ...
The ongoing confusion within the international community is disturbing and worrying. We wish the US administration could see this and not allow the war to be prolonged, which would destroy the unique bilateral relations with the USA. 8:28:11 AM
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Global anti-war protests. Tens of thousands of people worldwide take to the streets to stage anti-war demonstrations. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
According to BBC correspondent in Seoul, Caroline Gluck, some people fear a victory by the US in Iraq may make war more likely against North Korea, which was also labelled part of an axis of evil by President George W Bush. ...
"This war is bad news for humanity at the moment and I think there must be a concern that the direction of US foreign policy is going to lead to further wars." 8:07:19 AM
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