March 2003

Bush has already lost the war

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | ‘Bush has already lost the war’ Iraqi civilian deaths bring mounting pressure on US-led coalition “Even before the dust cleared from the bloody scenes at a Baghdad market where at least 14 people were killed … in a US-led air-strike, it was apparent that the Iraq war had taken a deeply disturbing turn. Coalition plans to advance on the capital are changing as US and British forces first deal with the resistance in the south …”

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Iraq body count

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“We don’t do body counts” General Tommy Franks, US Central Command Norwegian newspapers report that 750 Iraqi soldiers have been killed in the battle for Najaf so far. There are no official numbers for how many civilians have been killed. A site that tries to put together information about civilian casualties is the Iraq Body Count site. At the time of this post the site claims the minimum civilian casualties of the war so far has been 213, maximum 292 souls. The site has published its methodology for gathering its

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Flash mini-blog reader from Michael Gunn

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Its nice to see how the community keeps building on each-other. This time its Michael Gunn (Hollowcube.com) that has released a very nice, clean and fast mini-blog reader. Yes, that is right. I have finally created my own RSS blog reader! And it’s pretty darn cool if I may say so myself. It will eventually be part of the hollowcube.com blog interface, so it’s in ‘Beta’ at this moment. Its based on Samuel Wan’s RSSDataFactory parser and Micheal has threatened to release the source code eventually. I can’t wait. This

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Double standard: War prisoners

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This is typical of the american government’s hypocrisy: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld told CBS that if they are indeed coalition soldiers, “those pictures are a violation of the Geneva Convention.” Arab TV Shows Captured American Troops (washingtonpost.com) But, of course, the Afghan prisoners held in Cuba aren’t prisoners of war, at least according to US government.

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The Bush Doctrine: War without anyone’s permission

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Slate : The Bush Doctrine: War without anyone’s permission. By Michael Kinsley […] Bush is asserting the right of the United States to attack any country that may be a threat to it in five years. And the right of the United States to evaluate that risk and respond in its sole discretion. And the right of the president to make that decision on behalf of the United States in his sole discretion. In short, the president can start a war against anyone at any time, and no one has

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Current events weighted by blogs

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A very nice new resource from David Sifry, is the Technorati: Current Events, with context. Its basically an analasys of what blogs are linking to. 150.000 blogs are monitored every hour for links to established news sites, thereby making it possible to pick up on what current events make the buzz on the blogs. Very nice resource. No money for the bet of what major topics the blogs are refering to these days, [Via JD on MX]

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Todays quote

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“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater

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