Month January 2003

The UN inspectors report “Iraq unwilling to give up weapons, U.N. inspector says.” – LA Times headline. Tell me, how can Iraq give up weapons when inspectors haven’t yet found any weapons? “‘Inspection is not a game of catch-as-catch-can,’ Blix declares.…

A prayer from Mark Twain O Lord our God, Help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead: help us to drown…

Shouldn’t we finish this war before starting another one? “U.S. Forces Fighting Afghan Rebels. U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan are involved in the largest-scale fighting in nine months, the U.S. military said Tuesday.”

Dont mourn, organize Iraq’s time running out, US saysThis shouldn’t have been unexpected – that Hans Blix would play hard cop, whacking Iraq, thus giving the U.N. a fig leaf reason to vote for war. Too many peace activists, I…

J29 Today, in the State of the War address, George Bush will warn us of all manner of imminent peril if we do not immediately reduce Iraq to rubble. Tomorrow, Jan 29, there will be mass protests across the country…