Month March 2003

FBI probes fake evidence of Iraqi nuclear plans The FBI is looking into the forgery of a key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program, including the possibility that a foreign government is using a deception campaign…

Molly Ivins, as usual, gets it right   From my dad comes: In her column today “Molly Ivins says,  ‘Have you ever seen such amazing arrogance coupled with such awesome incompetence?’ Wow, and no matter how you cut it, bad news…

If bombs may rain in Baghdad, what’s a little rain here? The weather forecast for the major protests tomorrow in S.F. and L.A. is heavy rain. If this happens, then the rallies may be short, but we can certainly march.…

Those zany Germans! From Boing Boing  “A carnival float shows paper mache figure of German conservative opposition leader Angela Merkel emerging from the buttocks of Uncle Sam during the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in Duesseldorf, March 3, 2003. Merkel…

 U.S., Britain, Spain to Hold Iraq crisis summit The United States will hold an emergency summit with allies Britain and Spain in the mid-Atlantic on Sunday in a last-ditch bid to overcome opposition in the U.N. Security Council to plans…