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Anti-war Howard Dean?
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2003 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
Anti-war Howard Dean?
From a speech by Preston Wood at the recent socialist conference in NYC.
Take Howard Dean, who is portraying himself as a maverick anti-war candidate. Here’s what he’s quoted as saying in the Washington Post.
“Now that we’re in there”, he said, “We’re stuck”. “Bush’s gamble was foolish and wrong, but whoever will be elected in 2004 has to live with it. We have no choice. It’s a matter of national security. If we leave and we don’t get a democracy in Iraq the result is a very significant danger to the United States.”
Our occupation of Iraq is what makes things more dangerous for us. Continuing the occupation will simply make things more dangerous - as more join the fight against us. Have we learned nothing from the war we lost in Vietnam? Leaving Iraq will lessen the danger for everyone, including us. Plus it’s the right thing to do.
“Bringing democracy to Iraq is not a 2-year proposition. Having elections alone doesn’t guarantee democracy. You’ve got to have institutions and”, check this out, “the rule of law in a country that hasn’t had that in 3,000 years”.
Apparently Dean hasn’t heard of the Code of Hammurabi, the first written code of law in history, which originated in what is now Iraq. And to dismiss thousand of years of Iraqi and Arab culture so contemptuously is arrogant and ignorant.
He also specified that he wants a “hybrid” constitution where Iraqi have a major role but Americans have the final say(!)
And how is this different from what Bush is doing?
Preston concludes with, “For the Democrats, it’s not a discussion of whether or not Iraq should be occupied, but how to carry out the occupation”.
Addendum: While I question how Dean can be considered antiwar or how he can extract us from the Middle East quagmire, I do support him for President as he is vastly less extreme than Bush.
Meanwhile: Some Democrats, yes Democrats, are launching attack ads against Dean using images of bin Laden’s face to do so. How very George Bush-like of them.
YANIEB (Yet Another Nasty Internet…
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2003 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
YANIEB (Yet Another Nasty Internet Explorer Bug)
A new, potentially critical flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser has been disclosed throughout public forums, while Redmond has yet to issue a single security bulletin for the month of December.
Oh heck Redmond, no need to rush…
The basic premise behind the IE flaw is “URL Obfuscation”
“Normally when this attack is executed, the URL looks similar to: http://www.microsoft.com@www.foobar.com/index.html. The spoofed URL makes the Web page appear to be from www.microsoft.com, when it is actually located on www.foobar.com,”
This means URLS’s can be faked, fooling the unwary into, say, giving a credit card number.
Published reports indicate that only Internet Explorer is affected by the attack.
Omigod, you mean IE has gaping security holes? Who knew???
Dunno about you, but I’m tired of endless problems of their own making that Microsoft never seems to fix or accept blame for. Sort of like the Bush Administration, come to think of it…
I’m currently testing Opera, a full-featured browser, available in pay and free versions. Mozilla also has a nice browser. Neither has security issues anywhere near the magnitude of IE. Anyone know of others?
Aztec warrior, 2003
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2003 00:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
Do not mess with Linux…
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2003 00:01 - Category: Unfiled ;
Do not mess with Linux lovers
Another day, another DoS attack against SCO
Another day, another denial of service attack at The SCO Group. Or so it must seem to the company, which — justifiable or not — has become about as popular as a right-wing Republican at a Howard Dean
Although no one knows for sure, there is widespread suspicion that disgruntled members of the open-source community are responsible for the attacks. There is no doubt that many are furious over SCO’s litigation against IBM regarding the Unix and Linux computer operating systems — a lawsuit that, if SCO is successful, will have massive reverberations.
It is likely SCO can expect more of the same — in one form or another — given the stakes and the nerve it obviously has struck.
