Friday, April 4, 2003

Chris Gulker has had an interesting visitor to his site. His referrer log shows the following entry:
http:&frasl &frasl homeland.fbi.gov/Watchlists/suspect/view.jsp
"Does this mean publishing opinions that can be construed as anti-war qualify one for FBI surveillance?" he wonders.
Strange days, indeed. Most peculiar, mama, as John Lennon once said.
11:53:44 PM    

Will the Republican Guard crumble? We'd all better hope so, none more so than Donald Rumsfeld. Seymour Hersh's latest piece in an excellent series of reports in the New Yorker paints a frightening picture of what could happen if this war doesn't end quickly. Thanks to Rumsfeld, who totally disregarded the Pentagon's military planners, the US forces are ill-equipped for a long war. And it will take weeks for additional tanks and other heavy equipment needed by additional armored divisions to reach Iraq.
3:16:54 PM    

"Just before he left for the Gulf he planted some daffodil bulbs in our garden as a surprise, so they'd come up while he was away. We loved each other deeply and words cannot express how much I'll miss him."
-- Debbi Allbutt, remembering her husband and father of two sons, Corporal Stephen John Allbutt, of the Queen's Royal Lancers, killed in action in southern Iraq on 25 March 2003. From the deeply moving Details of Casualties section of the British Ministry of Defence's Operation Telic website.
2:24:18 PM