WARNING...VERY DISTURBING...GRAPHICAL VIOLENCE DEPICTED

But, of course, ultimately for their own good.
via the unfiltered lens of Iraq Dispatches: Fallujah Pictures

Well...Since there were no "embedded reporters" along, I guess we can simply ignore these for lack of "objectivity." And once again, all I can think about is that clip from Robert Bly's poem The Teeth Mother Naked at Last

But if one of those children came near that we have set on fire,
came toward you like a gray barn, walking,
you would howl like a wind tunnel in a hurricane,
you would tear at your shirt with blue hands,
you would drive over your own child's wagon trying to back up,
the pupils of your eyes would go wild.

If a child came by burning, you would dance on your lawn,
trying to leap into the air, digging into your cheeks,
you would ram your head against the wall of your bedroom
like a bull penned too long in his moody pen.

If one of those children came toward me with both hands
in the air, fire rising along both elbows,
I would suddenly go back to my animal brain,
I would drop on all fours, screaming,
my vocal chords would turn blue; so would yours,
it would be two days before I could play with one of my own
children again.

DAMN THE WAR...DAMN IT'S ENABLERS...DAMN THOSE WHO FIND ANYTHING STRATEGIC HERE...IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A SOUL, you have lost it.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 'We have to protect people'

Yep...Can't have homos doing things like...WRITING!!!!

Things are looking up in Falluja, eh?

A very moving "passage", as it were.

Eschaton

Thanks to George and Clear Channel, I can now officially start translating into German. Just a translation mind you. Using your words.

via Suburban Guerrilla..
Unserer Fuhrer

Has a nice ring to it, eh?

From the Boston Herald...Chief Economist for Morgan Stanley..."economic Armageddon"

BostonHerald.com - Business: Economic `Armageddon' predicted

Add that to Volcker's 75% chance of "catastrophe" and what do you get?

I'm not worried...I'm 100% into U.S. Bonds...oh...waitaminute

via Slashdot...

Bill Gates patents Aristotle's Square of Opposition, nihilism and the Concept of Being.

Next up, Microsoft patents logic...offers to sell it to Bush administration.

Slashdot | Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO

Hey...Look! A trove of secret inteligence reports!!!

USNews.com: The Baghdad files: A trove of secret intelligence reports spells out in chilling detail how Iraq's dangerous next-door neighbor is aiding the anti-U.S. insurgency there (11/22/04)

Well...There's the hook...Wonder if anybody takes the bait??


That was quick

Make no mistake, people: we are at war with Iran, a conflict that's very similar to our direct engagement of Chinese infantry and Russian pilots during the Korean War.

Yep...similar...Also similar to our use of Saddam as a proxy during Iran/Iraq v1.0, but personally I've lost track of the blowback quotient with these guys.

Iran's nuclear motivation hinges on the clearest possible avenues of self-interest:

A. Blackmailing the West into providing beneficial agreements (trade and otherwise) by threatening nuclear development.

B. The exponential increase in prestige provided by the eventual obtention of nuclear weapons. This includes an Islamic counterweight to Israeli nuclear dominance of the region, a guarantee against attempted external overthrow or conventional retaliation against acts of aggression (the Doctrine of Extended Deterrence), and a new solidification of fundamentalist authority at home.

C. The ultimate use of nuclear weapons on the United States or Israel via a terrorist proxy.

Okay. I give up. There's the mushroom cloud thingy. Where do I buy the war bonds????

Your daily dose of Wolcott. Sure to take the edge off the daily hangover we're now suffering through.

James Wolcott: Rice and No Beans

So, just to keep up to date...

FCC says "We own/control your PCs"
Hollywood says "We own/control your entertainment"

Suburban Guerrilla

You'll Go Blind If You Keep Blogging!

Michael Powell Wants Your Spam

Susan Crawford blog :: Does the White House know?

So the FCC wants control over all these radical computers, eh?

FCC's position is that its Act gives it regulatory power over all instrumentalities, facilities, and apparatus "associated with the overall circuit of messages sent and received" via all interstate radio and wire communication. That's quite a claim.

Gimme a break. Where are the 101st Fighting Keyboarders when you need 'em?

Welcome to Hue v3.1...or as the idiot on CNN called it ..."Hugh."

gawd...and they call these guys the liberal media elite????


Concord Monitor Online via First Draft - Operation Al Fajr: When FUBAR Meets War Cirmes

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Dr. Ahmed Ghanim's nightmarish week began with a phone call in the operating room of a triage center in downtown Fallujah.

On the line was the manager of the city's General Hospital. Iraqi national guardsmen and U.S. Marines, the manager said, had entered the hospital, handcuffed the doctors and were forcing the patients out to the parking lot.

...snip

Late Tuesday, a bomb struck one side of the triage center. Ghanim ran out of the building.

A second bomb hit, crashing through the roof and destroying most of the facility. Ghanim believes it killed at least two or three of the young resident doctors working there and most of the patients.

"At that moment, I wished to die," he said. "It was a catastrophe."

Afterward, he said, he half-ran, half-wandered through Fallujah, dodging explosions that seemed to be everywhere. He took shelter in an empty house and did not move.

"I saw the injured people on the street, covered in blood, staggering, screaming, shouting, 'Help me! Help me!' but we could not get out and help them because we would be killed."

At one point, he looked out and saw a cousin in the street; he had been wounded. "I could not do anything for him, I could not move," Ghanim said. "He died. There was no mercy."

"Any idea who was slaughtered in those slaughterhouses?"
--Wolf Blitzer

Since most all the slaughterers have left Fallujah, (oh yeah, like Zarquawi's gonna still be there), watch for this to be the justification of the whole raid.

Slaughter...It's what slaughterer's have for breakfast, after their rape rooms, and their mass graves.

Yahoo! News - Name Mixup Behind Air France Groundings

First they came for the Welsh Insurance agents...

via AP
"Pierre Debue, director of the French border police, said one name on the list turned out to be that of a 5-year-old child. The Wall Street Journal on Friday said two other suspected terrorists turned out to be an elderly Chinese woman and a Welsh insurance agent."

I mean, it musta been the names...right? Have you ever seen them Welsh King names? My lovely wife's family includes some of those guys. Names like Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, Madog ap Maredudd...ughh.
I can just envision the Homeland Defense computers mining away at the data, then one of these names show up, and it matches some suspicious Viagra spam cover name for a suspected cell and there you are!

Is Tom Jones his real name?


p.s. And Candy Crowley is interviewing Asa Hutchinson on CNN...
Asa: "I hope this makes travelers feel safer about traveling."

Ah'll just stay on mah mule.....