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Friday, February 21, 2003
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This Is Why Iraq Is Hard
This is the other Iraq editorial in today's New York Times, written by Ken Pollack. He makes a very compelling case for why Saddam is a man bent on aggressive purposes, and that he views nuclear weapons as being central to his aggressions. I suggest anyone opposing the war should read it.
How to reconcile this with my belief that this war is wrong? Easy, the more I read. This war, meaning the war that the Bush Administration is concocting, with no attempt to diplomatically approach our allies and build a coalition, is wrong. This is not the war we should be fighting.
We should be fighting a war where we have shared what we know, where we meet face-to-face with our allies and call them out for their reluctance to join based on their own self-interest, as opposed to giving the world so much ammunition for the belief that self-interest is motivating us. We should devise a way to show the world that it's not about the oil; sign agreements stipulating how the oil fields will be used afterwards, by all countries.
But we aren't doing that. We are pugnaciously moving forward, threatening those who stand in our way. If what Pollack says is true, in time we might all be criticizing this Bush Administration not for taking us to war, but from preventing us from executing the war the proper way.
12:37:05 PM 
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Krugman on the Martial Plan
Yet another outstanding editorial from the New York Times, this one from Paul Krugman. He first decries the Bush Administration's attempt to turn our foreign aid budget into a War Chest to court, as he puts it the "Coalition of the Bought Off". Particularly interesting are his claims that the empty U.S. promises to rebuild Iraq can be debunked by looking at what happened to Afghanistan (twice) or even to New York City.
Now, Krugman is saying things that make sense to me, and things that at some level I want to hear, because it jibes with my personal beliefs about the bankrupt nature of this Administration.
But I know there must be people and views that clash with Krugman's claims. Anybody want to tell me why they think Krugman is wrong?
12:17:32 PM
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Today on the Game Pipeline: Analysis of the NBA Trades, and a lament about a certain team's inactivity.
12:02:57 PM
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A Bad Way To Go
Another tragedy in a nightclub. This time 65 people are dead, and counting, after a fire engulfs a Great White show in Rhode Island. Pyrotechnics is the culprit; they say the place was engulfed in flames immediately. Those people never had a chance.
They say these kinds of things happen in threes. First, the trampling in Chicago last week, now this. Turns out, the third happened right here in Minneapolis last week at the Fine Line Music Cafe, also the result of pyrotechnics. Miraculously, no one was injured in that instance.
Make a mental note next time you go out to a club: Know where the alternative exits are, and plan to use them.
11:37:50 AM
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