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This Is Genius

by John Cole|  March 22, 20037:16 pm| 2 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs

Go read this.

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Anti-War Myths

by John Cole|  March 22, 20036:25 pm| 13 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs

Mark Steyn:

It’s interesting how much was clarified in the first hours of the war. On Thursday, the Palestine Liberation Front released a statement announcing the identity of the first verified casualty: PLF “1st Lieutenant” Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz was killed in Baghdad, “while confronting the treacherous US air bombardment on Iraq”.

The PLF is the terrorist group that, among other triumphs, hijacked the Achille Lauro back in the 1980s and pushed Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound American Jew, into the Mediterranean.

What was a PLF terrorist doing attending a war council of Saddam’s inner circle in Baghdad? Well, I leave that to all the experts who’ve assured us that Baghdad has no ties to terror groups.

That was just the first of several myths to fall in the opening shots. If Hans Blix and Jacques Chirac are really interested in continuing with inspections, some of those missiles the Iraqis insisted they no longer have are now available for inspection in the sand on the Kuwaiti side of the border.

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No Guys

by John Cole|  March 22, 20034:45 pm| 7 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

I don’t think you are all pro-Saddam.

I don’t think you are all anti-American.

What I do think is that you are petulant, paranoid, immature, unrealistic, incapable of rational thought, and most of all, I think you are hysterical to read:

– “Oh my God- I said the war is wrong and Bush is Hitler and someone told me to shut the fuck up. What can we do about this fascism?”

– “I was just burning flags while blocking traffic, and someone flipped me the bird. Why won’t the media report this? Why are they crushing dissent?”

– “I vomited on the doorstep of the local Starbucks and then I crapped on the courtyard in front of city hall. This was clearly the best way for me to show my distaste with Bush’s war.”

Bunch of morons.

*** Update ***

‘Peace’ protestors have now provoked a near riot in NYC.

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Inside the Mind of A Democrat

by John Cole|  March 22, 200312:14 am| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

Go hear for an amusing diversion from the war.

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Golden Showers

by John Cole|  March 22, 200312:09 am| 3 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links

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No remarks necessary (via Michael J. Totten, who I have added to the lefty perma-links).

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This Is Beautiful

by John Cole|  March 21, 200310:19 pm| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Humorous

Go listen to this Iraqi man rip a moron peace activist on radio.

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Why We Will Win

by John Cole|  March 21, 200310:09 pm| 4 Comments

This post is in: War

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British Army Doctor, Lt. Col. Lesley Lintonbon, from East Devon, England, explains the activities of the Intensive Care Unit of the 33 Field Hospital near Um Al Aish, Kuwait, 80 km north of Kuwait City, Monday, March 10, 2003.

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