Life imitates satire Optimist Club Organizes Baghdad Chapter. Despite the April 1 dateline, this appears not to be a joke. Iraqi kids will write essays about “What a Free Iraq Means To Me,” and the winner gets a ticket out…

Bob Woodward’s book There’s some blistering revelations here… (And it’s obvious, if unspoken, that Woodward’s major source for the book is Colin Powell) Bush ordered Iraq plans in November 2001 Tenet told Bush WMD case a ‘slam dunk’. Sharp thinkin’…

Iraq Calm before the storm in Baghdad The threat is clear. ‘Do not go out of your homes. Keep your families off the streets,’ the leaflet says. ‘The Combined Mujahideen Brigades are coming to Baghdad.’ Mooj were NOT in Iraq…

Descent into the maelstrom From KOS Sunday WaPo: Iraq Officially FUBAR Things are officially FUBAR in Iraq. There is really no other way to read this A1 bombshell from Sunday’s WaPo. Un-freakin-believable… Uprisings Force U.S. to Rethink Strategy in Iraq…

I do the programmers victory dance! Among other things, I write database applications on PC’s, using Microsoft Visual FoxPro (VFP). Lately, I’ve been learning Visual FoxExpress (VFE), a Rapid Application Development (RAD) add-on << do I hear someone screaming “stop with…

Maelstrom Bush sealed Hamas leader’s fate – Palestinians “It was Bush.” The verdict was near unanimous amid the tears and rage on Palestinian streets after Israel killed Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in an air strike Saturday that many Arabs felt…

Works for me Ralph Nader says “Join the call for an impeachment inquiry of Bush and Cheney”Here’s why.