Eve of War

Eve of War

Can't quite believe that we are on eve of this war. Still glued to news.google.com. Lots of new on the internet of course. Most interesting things:
* "Clare Short on Channel 4":http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/03/week_3/18_goodman.html. Amazing turnabout.
* "Tony Blair at House of Commons":http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916790,00.html. Wow, is it me, or do the British politicians sound so much smarter. I thought it was great the way she asked, what would I do if I was Tony Blair.
* "Large scale Anthrax Attack Analysis":http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000C22EA-4A06-1E76-A98A809EC5880105. For the record, Iraq is thought to have 10,000 litres of antrax. A report in the Scientific American shows that 1 litres of antrax in city would kill between 123,000 people. Uh. Food for though.
* "Bill Clinton on Tony Blair":http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,916302,00.html. Lucid explanation from Clinton on what happened. Surprisingly sober IMHO.
* "Washington Post-ABC News Poll":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/vault/stories/data031803.htm. Amazing to me to see the US population support levels. Astounding really. 64% approval for George Bush's handling of Iraq. 75% disapproval of UN handling of Iraq. 71% support US war with Iraq. 72% think US has done enough to win support from other countries. I'd love to see the regional breakouts on these statistics. Doesn't represent Seattle I bet. Also "John Zagula":http://zagula.com points out that this is common at the start of a war. LBJ had an incredible approval rating the first two years of his administration.
* "Latest UK Poll":http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/story/0,11030,916494,00.html. Interesting to see the same phenomena in the UK.
Finally, the world's best blogs are at "Washington Post Embedded Correspondents":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/nationalsecurity/abroad/iraq/field/. These are the folks who are with units in the Middle East. Interesting snail-eye-view of things.

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