speaking of math, i love this humanitarian line that the media is peddling re iraq. ''the average family in iraq has about 6 weeks worth of food, so we need to get food on the table by the end of april.'' actually, that strategy would kill 12 million people... lies lives and statistics...

newt gingrich: the fanatics defending their cities are like the ss and gestapo in berlin 1945. the result is not in doubt - unless saddam uses WMD. then it'll be fascinating to see what jacques chirac says about why he isnt helping

'a number of speedboats are unaccounted for in the port taken by the coalwill' - did we know how many were there before? did we do an inventory when we got there and let some people steal them?

"Afterthought: we took a lot of lessons from 9/11, but it occurs to me that there's one we might have overlooked--when you attack a nation, people tend to rally around their leader, even if they hate him."

ftr - i note that the beeb did a story on the london peace marches last weekend, noting that the police estimate was of 200k people... the headline on the beeb later was 'tens of thousands'

yellowtimes.org got pulled offline... again! this time by its isp for posting screen grabs from aljazz of the captured ams...

wow! john howard just declined an invitation to go to camp david with blergh and bush! 'id rather be at home during war'

have you ever seen a town with population of 3000 people? you need to concentrate just to notice it... yet umm qasar, population same, held up the coalwill for ever and is screwing up the supply lines... what is baghdad gonna be like?

further to my circumspection about how well the coalwill is proceeding - here is something that *looks like* a daily blog from the side of the incumbents... if accurate, it might be interesting. i cant vouch for it: aeronautics