War Blogging

Posted on March 24, 2003 in Crosstalk Pointers

And here’s the war blogging roundup for Monday, March 24, 2003.

• Anger and despair are almost getting the better of Donna, who writes:

  there’s too many rabid war fans out there who have no desire to listen to a *hippie, commie, pinko peacenik* like myself. They’re too busy making up cute names for fried foods and following their leader like good little soldiers…like good lil americans. Unlike us bad americans who think blowing people up is a not-so-great a way of dealing with things. It’s funny isn’t it? It’s funny how these people just love peace until there’s a reason to avoid it, then it’s blow the bastards up baybeeee!

• Tuesday likens Operation Shock and Awe (or should we call it “Schlock and Offal”?) to “wiping out the entire state of Montana, to track down the Unabomber.”
  
  

• Proving that she still keeps her head when taking in the news, Raye quickly dismissed reports that a chemical warfare plant had been found in Basra.
  
  

• See what an international team of jurists says about the U.S. claim that the encampment at Guantamano Bay meets the standards of the Geneva Convention at Andrew’s blog.
  
  
  
• Crazy Tracy’s birthday was ruined by the start of the war, among other things.
  
  

• Kiril offers ways to protest the war in Iraq on two wheels.
  
  

• Raed survived the air raids. He reports:

  Yesterday many leaflets were dropped on Baghdad, while going around in the streets I got lucky, I have two. After being so unkind to the people at [industrialdeathrock.com] I don’t know whether I should post images or not.
  And we have had another email attack, this time I was lucky again and have copies of those, the sender is something called [blablabla@hotpop.com]. I have not checked on that yet. Three of them are to army personnel and two to the general public in those they gave us the radio frequencies we are supposed to listen to. They are calling it “information Radio”.

• Jeremy reported that tanks were spotted rolling through Iraq bearing signs that said “Got Oil?” “Yeah,” he says, “Yeah, great way to assure the locals that you’re there to “liberate” them.” What can I say, Jeremy? These are the same people who sew “We kill for peace” patches on their duffle bags.
  
  

• Doug the Mute Troubadour shares this quote by Thomas Merton:

  Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him, Christ has come uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, his place is with others for whom there is no room. His place is with those who do not belong, who are rejected by power because they are regarded as weak, those who are discredited, who are denied the status of persons, tortured, exterminated. With those for whom there is no room, Christ is present in this world. -Thomas Merton

• Mizzy is frustrated by the fact that her Neopians for Peace support board has become a debate board. Ah, yes. I remember how it got at PeaceNet sometimes.
  
  

• Grey Bird found this article entitled When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History. It’s high time that we ignore it when the Right wails about our comparing it to Hitler. If the parallel line runs true, either change or be honest and wear your swastikas.
  
  

• Andrea the Serial Deviant points to the work of the Lysistrata Project.
  
  

• Andrea the Shameless Agitator has engaged in civil and persuasive dialogue about the meaning of “support our boys” with me. I’m exploring ways to help the families of enlisted men who have been left destitute by Mr. W. Bush’s War. (No. Still no care packages for soldiers from me. I stand by what I have said on that subject.)
  
  

• Steve Les Jenkins shared some Mark Twain quotes on the war.
  
  

• Al Muhajabah put up a list of links about Islamic rules of treatment for prisoners.
  
  

• blue iguana is too fucking busy Simming, it seems, to blog about the war. Or anything else.