Just saw John Pike on Fox News. (Full disclosure: I interviewed him several times many years ago and used him as a source when I was covering Vandenberg AFB for the Lompoc Record.) Pike suggested that we might find a use for the Mother of All Bombs if, hypothetically, a column of Iraqi troops was […]
I haven't written much on the current war on Iraq, and that's not just because I've been overwhelmed by the home-buying/moving/home-improvement activities. I've got friends over there in the Gulf -- good friends. From my church group there are 8 guys, all Marines, deployed over there. Four of them I consider friends. Two of them […]
From wounded Army Staff Sgt. Jamie Villafane on being tossed out of his Humvee when Iraqi soldiers, clothed as civilians, hit it with an rocket-propelled grenade: Getting shot at really wasn't that bad. It's the getting shot part that sucked. After being thrown from the Humvee, a wounded Villafane singlehandedly captured four Iraqi soldiers.
Over at The Agonist Sean-Paul is doing yeoman's work when it comes to compiling all war-related information at a breakneck pace. Go check it out.
Is the escalating war with Iraq a diplomatic failure, as identified by Senate minority leader Tom Daschle? According to U.S. News & World Report's Michael Barone, Daschle is disingenuous to say the least.
Only in the Bay Area can you get that rare mix of political/protest activism and the vanity of maintaining a slender figure. In a unique form of opposition, some protesters at the Federal Building staged a "vomit in,'' by heaving on the sidewalks and plaza areas in the back and front of the building to […]
The guys over at brain-terminal.com have up their latest video from last weekend's San Francisco protest. It's not as comic as the last one, but the wacko guy who tries to explain the interplanetary and interdimensional evils done by President Bush is kinda amusing -- if it wasn't so sad.
Head on over to any news site, turn on any TV station, and you'll see the worst of American and world journalism right now. At this point, we've launched a few missiles at "targets of opportunity" -- hopefully Saddam Hussein and some of his top aides. That's all there is to report, but news organization […]
For those of you who are interested about the United States "going it alone" in the war against Iraq, here's a list of who's with us now, and who was with us back in 1991 during the first Gulf War. 2003 -- 31 nations: Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, […]
I was in the newsroom earlier tonight when President Bush made his speech to the nation. Most action stopped as people gathered around the television sets to watch. Though I've long advocated war, if necessary, to bring about the end of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's evil regime, as the time nears where American soldiers venture […]