In San Francisco, people take to the streets to protest the “Bush Regime’s” unlawful war (Indymedia Photo). Loudly they denounce this unprovoked aggression. The status quo is always better than any bloodshed, particularly unilateral actions undertaken by 40 or so nations (Indymedia Photo). Here is what they wanted to stop (Jerome Delay – AP): It …
War
Perspective
Michael J. Totten provides a new look at the war in Iraq. (via RealPoilitik)
Basketball and Beer
If you haven’t noticed, I did not post much this past weekend. Although the war seems to be going pretty well, I need a break from it all. The death of Michael Kelly was absolutely awful, the loss of David Bloom equally so (go read Jarvis’s letter to his Bloom’s beautiful little girls). Every time …
Arab Street?
Charlie Company Task Force 1-64 of the 3rd ID faces the feared ‘Arab Street’ in downtown BAGHDAD. Maybe the fear-mongerers and those saying the war was going poorly were talking about something else.
Command Post
Remember, the authoritative source for war information and links is the Command Post, the best web collaborative available.
Democracy, Whiskey, and Sexy
Via Sullivan, this quote in the NY Times: In the giddy spirit of the day, nothing could quite top the wish list bellowed out by one man in the throng of people greeting American troops from the 101st Airborne Division who marched into town today. What, the man was asked, did he hope to see …
The ‘Elite’ Republican Guard
From Reuters and IOL: United States Marines seized a key bridge over the Tigris river in central Iraq on Wednesday and took control of the main Highway 6 from Kut to Baghdad, a senior Marine officer said. “That’s the last big bridge we needed for an advance on Baghdad,” the officer told Reuters correspondent Sean …