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Monday, March 17, 2003
posted by gbarto at 12:14 AM:
Den Beste appears to have hit the nail on the head the other day:'Moment of Truth for the World'
Bush urges other nations to support immediate disarmament of Iraqi leader, suggesting vote or war could come today
Bush is talking about Iraq's reconstruction, Blair explaining that a UN resolution without an ultimatum and an authorization for war is what we already have, we need something with teeth. And it looks like the UN now has about 20 hours to produce something with teeth that convinces us they won't to be on board, not just jerk us around.
Doubt they'll come through.
So fill the car this morning; you might find a gas station that hasn't gotten around to raising prices yet but by tonight you probably won't be so lucky. There's a war on.
Of course, there's been a war on - we've been blowing up stuff for years, and intensely the last few days; Saddam's been shooting at the planes enforcing the surrender he signed for ages now; and there's the little matter of global terrorism that has now - it seems - killed five Indians who had the audacity to ride the bus, though their deaths will doubtless generate less outrage than that of a girl who thought laying in front of a military bulldozer would be a great way to give peace a chance. The irony is that the Israelis probably would have stopped if they had realized. Don't count on any such failure of nerve from Saddam, Osama and the others who have lately taken to the most profound of blasphemies against a religion that surely shudders with horror each time it invokes itself as a religion of peace.
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