03 April 2003
An exchange of opinion about the war in Iraq
A story from the Washington DC subway [source]An elderly woman was behind me getting off the escalator and a young (20ish) female protestor offered her a pamphlet, she politely declined. The young protestor put her hand on the old woman's shoulder as a guesture of friendship and in a very soft voice said, “Ma'am, don't you care about the children of Iraq?”The old woman looked up at her and said: “Honey, my first husband died in France during World War II so you could have the right to stand here and bad mouth your country. And if you touch me again, I'll stick this umbrella up your ass and open it.”
I'm glad to report that loud applause broke out among the onlookers and the young protestor was at a total loss for words.
NY Times makes up quotes to generate anti-war spin
The NY Times falsely attributed a quote claiming that the Ba'ath were "a house of cards" to Vice President Dick Cheney and omitted the words “a bit” from the quote by Lt. Gen. William Wallace that “The enemy we're fighting isQuote of the day
Instantman sez, after reviewing some commercial satellite imagery,Ralph Peters quotes Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker as calling Baghdad “a landscape of death and wanton devastation, all stamped ‘Made in America’ ”. Give it up, dude. This is the Internet — and now we can fact-check your ass from orbit.