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April 3 2003
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War images stay with children fleeing Iraq
Reuters AlertNet, UK - 4-3-03
By Edmund Blair
RUWEISHED, Jordan, April 3 (Reuters) - Images of war are not far away
for Abdel-Kadim, a 10-year-old Somali boy who fled conflict in Iraq with his
family to a desert camp in Jordan...But after two weeks of war, there are
far fewer people fleeing Iraq than aid workers expected. Only a few hundred
expatriates have passed through Jordan and there have been no Iraqi
refugees.
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Iraq war brings unwanted memories
The Casper Star Tribune, WY
4-3-03
...The 1988 National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study reported 31 percent
of male veterans and 27 percent of women veterans experienced PTSD (Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder)at some point in their lives.
"We start to get calls whenever there's a deployment," Hackman
said. "The countries, the times, all those things are different but trauma
is trauma."... |
Environmental Damages Could Be 'Irreversible'
Washington Post, DC - By
Eric Pianin
Environmental experts warned this week that war in Iraq will cause "massive
and possibly irreversible" damage to the Persian Gulf region and
significantly add to global warming. The environmental leaders said the
ensuing damage to Iraq's ecosystem and food and water supplies may eclipse
the destruction during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. |
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Today's cartoon was inspired by the look in that little girl's eyes.
Is she angry, scared or pissed off?
I can identify with that little girl. I was
about her age when Castro had Soviet nuclear missiles pointed at the US.
I lived about 100 miles away from Cuba at that dreadful time. Our school had
each student's blood type determined and engraved on dog tags. That was not
a necklace I wanted to wear. But I wore it until the day John F. Kennedy got
Nikita Khrushchev to back down. No bombs were dropped. Tough
diplomacy with the USSR by JFK insured a peaceful end to that nuclear
threat. Instant relief.
What relief will the above little girl feel when
the war in Iraq is over?
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Zelda
Morgan -
ALL HAT NO CATTLE WAR CORRESPONDENT
 
Attention:
Zelda Morgan, our senior War
Correspondent was
hospitalized after an altercation with our junior War Correspondent
(still unnamed pending litigation*
read 4-1-03 column)
The unnamed Hispanic junior War Correspondent has a broken nose, again.
Zelda was released from the hospital after her foot was removed from the
junior War Correspondent's rear.
Send
Zelda an anonymous get well greeting or include email address if you like
or Email Zelda at
zeldamorgan@yahoo.com
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Thanks to my Austrian Pal - Erich
Quotes of the Day
| "They told us to buy duct tape and portable radios so
that if the world does end, we can all listen to Rush Limbaugh blame it on
Clinton." —Bill Maher |
"I'm not worried about things in the world because
yesterday President Bush told reporters that he is monitoring the situation
in North Korea, very carefully. In fact today the president spent the whole
day watching reruns of M.A.S.H." —Conan O'Brien |
"Men have become the tools of their tools." Henry
David Thoreau |
INTERNAL MEMORANDUM
Attention:
Homeland Security Department Supervisors in the Red States
There appears to have been some miscommunication with the public
about our recent instructions regarding the use of "duct tape" for the
purpose of securing residences against terrorist attacks. This is
especially true in your states where laws prohibiting marriage within
the immediate family are rarely enforced.
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Thanks to David Podvin |
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"And when like here, oh Great
Dubyahi, you shall pass
Amoung the dead babies-scatter'd on the Grass,
And in your joyous errand to anoint thyself in oil reach the spot
Consider thyself but an insane Horse's Ass!"
http://www.asticles.com/asticles/allhail.htm |
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"Slowly we turn, step by step,
inch by inch, we move toward Baghdad."
-Moe Bush
Thanks Candy. Your phrase has
legs. I'm leaving it up till we invade Baghdad. |
Iraq
Body Count
A Flak Attack On The New Jersey Turnpike
By Stewart Nusbaumer -
www.interventionmag.com
With the war in Iraq revving up and the war at home in America ratcheting up,
flashbacks from the Vietnam era are proliferating, all which will make life here
more ugly. Driving on the NJ Turnpike to an antiwar demonstration of military
veterans, the author was suddenly mugged by hate talk radio!
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Fox News defends its 'patriotic' coverage
Channel's objectivity questioned on Iraq
Radio & TV: David Folkenflik
"Obnoxious, pontificating jerk." "Self-absorbed, condescending
imbecile." "Ivy League intellectual Lilliputian." These were among
the choice phrases deployed by Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto Friday to
rebut criticism that the anchor had abandoned objectivity for overt
nationalism on the air.
The complaint was made in a letter written to the network by a
journalism professor who Cavuto didn't further identify.
"There is nothing wrong with taking sides here, professor," Cavuto said
during his show. "You see no difference between a government that oppresses
people, and one that does not, but I do."
Taken as a whole, the anchor's jeremiad neatly defines the tone of
Fox News at war: It is patriotic, it is pugilistic, and it takes things
personally.
Geraldo Rivera may return to Iraq
Yahoo News - 4-3-03
THE Pentagon says Geraldo Rivera is welcome to go back into
Iraq with US troops - now that he's learned his lesson. ...
OK. Let me get this straight. The cable
"news" network that bills itself as fair and balanced -- resorts to
name-calling when someone provides a different opinion? Oh, I get it,
they are "fair and balanced" only to those who agree with them. FuxNews -
Patriotic-Pugilistic-Pompous Pigheads |
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W.A.R. -- What does it
stand for?
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Thanks Erich |
Viewer EMAIL:
coslov@gte.net
Subject:
your website
I want to thank you for a wonderfully
informative and thought provoking site. Personally, I'm anxious to be rid of
that brutal dictator Saddam, because I can't wait to see what brutal dictator
that we will replace him with. At my age (53) I fondly remember: Ferdinand
Marcos....what a swell guy, and man of the people! I will never forget the Shah
of Iran and that marvelously creative bunch...the Savak; who invented more
fascinating uses for electricity than those ol' boys Tom Edison and George
Westinghouse ever dreamed of!
Mark
Thanks for
writing Mark. Maybe Bush should replace Saddam with Imelda Marcos. At
least everyone would have shoes.
cya
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