so let me start off with stuff that hasnt made sense since they started bombing, or other stuff i thought deserved a comment...

gwb's radio speech today - said that people have been helping military families by baby sitting and 'helping out with home repairs' - fukking hell. amongst other things, sexist pig.

and theres the 'embedded' journalists spreading truth - fukking hell - patty hearst was embedded. im tempted to use 'in bedded' but im trying to be less opaque and/or clever.

i love it that the um, allies, have captured the '2nd largest city, geographically'... if im not mistaken, mt isa is the worlds 'largest' city... well done people.

weird story of course about this american soldier rolling grenades into a tent in kuwait - what the fuck is that about? different stories about first he was a terrorist, then a security guy, then an american soldier, then a muslim american soldier, then he collapsed under pressure of being on hi alert for a few days, then he was noticed 'acting strangely recently'... 2 grenades, then 3. the injury count rising... 10, 13, 16...

it mite be a weird time to talk about fashion - but today there was a pentagon briefing with some guy with a very metall-ed left shirt pocket and some chick who i think was 'deputy secretary of state press affairs' - and she was wearing a disgustingly inappropriate jacket in a sea of sombriety and khakis... why? i dont think that things like that happen by accident... i can only imagine that she was hoping to take up column inches on her fashion, and distracting attention from what they were pretending to say... i also note that even a politician/ PR professional couldnt help but rub her nose when she mentioned that the opposition were engaging in 'disinformation'... (update - ok so her name is victoria clarke - Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs - who dresses like that, ever, anywhere?)

the turk army 'moving into' kurd/northern iraq is a weird story too - i dunno what happened yesterday! the story was that 1500 turks had moved into northern iraq against the US wishes - it 'turns out' (after quite a few hours) that was untrue, and the 1500 turks were kinda permanently based there, and were moving across/across the border normally... dunno dunno

lemme also note that rummy was very grumpy in that press conference yesterday

another thought - my sense throughout history is that agressors tend to believe that they can win wars... and they can justify it on religious grounds, or technological grounds, or historical grounds, or any such thing... and the aggressors probably (speculation)arent as successful as they think theyll be... and im sure it seems different every time, but i assume that it isnt... theres not a reason in the world why the unilateralists dont think theyll win... but saddam is kinda in the arafat mold - keep going, know how to survive... be there next week, next month... those guys have dug themselves out of many holes, gwb has only dug himself into them, and been dug out by the benevolent padre... god and a 1000% differential military spend dont always determine the answer...