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Friday, January 31, 2003
This article suggests that Iraq may have gassed those Kurds (in 1988) as part of a larger battle with Iran, and perhaps even that it was an Iranian gas attack that killed them. It also points out that there's another layer to the conflict that no one considers much: Iraq's water.
.: posted by andy 1/31/2003
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Global Warming is Good for You!
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 1/28/2003
Sunday, January 26, 2003
Magdalene Laundries, a form of slavery employed by Irish Catholics as late as 1996. I thought it was interesting to see that something so awful persisted for so long.
.: posted by andy 1/26/2003
Idiots. The War on Iraq may be a bad idea, but becoming a human shield for Saddam is a worse one.
"I would rather die in defense of justice and peace than 'prosper' in complicity with mass murder and war," says the event's organizer. If you want to die in defense of justice and peace, you're making your job a lot harder by going to Iraq. This is, after all, a dictatorship wherein the government mustard gassed its own people. But whatever. Some guy named O'Keefe is the event's organizer. Apparently he's an American Gulf War veteran who renounced his American citizenship four years ago. Sounds like an enemy combatant to me.
Realistically, though, we'll probably be able to convince some of our European or Turkish or Kurdish friends to stop the buses before they reach Iraq. I wonder if these activists are counting on that happening. That would make this a good anti-war PR stunt. On the other hand, if these activists actually manage to become human shields, I'll bet we bomb them, and I'll bet it won't be that big a deal until about 20 years from now.
.: posted by andy 1/26/2003
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