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25366 where are those cheering crowds? -- rank: 1000

[and they bypassed Basra, apparently because someone might put up a fight] Wall Street Journal - March 24, 2003 U.S. Troops Aren't Welcomed By Everyone in Southern Iraq Relief Effort, Aimed at Easing Defiance, Faces Obstacles to Delivering Supplies By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV and NEIL KING JR. Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Far from being hailed immediately as liberators, invading U.S. and British forces in southern Iraq are facing deep hostility and gunfire from some residents who are ofte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 06:38:13 PST 2003

25367 YellowTimes censored -- rank: 1000

YellowTimes.org - YellowTimes.org temporarily shut down http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1204ellowtimes YellowTimes.org was temporarily shut down Sunday night. Its new hosting provider shut it down due to publishing "Inappropriate graphic material." After removing pictures of civilian Iraqi deaths and injuries, along with photos of American POWs, YellowTimes.org was allowed to print again. There are related articles in the News From the Front section on this matter. YellowTim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 06:31:48 PST 2003

25368 Russian news on Iraq -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Russia vows to stop US move to legitimise Iraq war What's going on here? What's the Russian gov't up to? Have they been freaked out by US behavior? An EU-Russia axis would be very interesting. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 23 16:40:23 PST 2003

25369 Support the Troops reduxe, or, why we are losing the anti-war -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I have to admit though, my favorite chant was different. To the beat of >de-DAH-da: > >This WAR is >for PROfit >It's BULLshit >Let's STOP it > >That's a lot of fun to chant. Especially when people got drums. I loved the train of six or so 11-year-old girls chanting "George Bush you're on crack/get the fuck out of Iraq." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 23 16:10:59 PST 2003

25370 Robocop (Was Support the Troops) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I told the commander that he knew this was illegal. He sais, >Counselor, this aint a court of law. One of the great innovations in municipal government during the Rudy years was his habit of doing things that were clearly illegal, and figuring he'd get his way until some court reversed it, which didn't mean he wouldn't do it again. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 23 16:00:17 PST 2003

25371 Al-Jazeera showing US Pows - Extremely Graphic -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >www24.brinkster.com/sadday/pow002.jpg Getting errors on these, and www.brinkster (minus the 24) too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 23 09:55:27 PST 2003

25372 grenade attack an antiwar statement -- rank: 1000

U.S. Soldier Kills Compatriot in Anti-War Attack By Kieran Murray KUWAIT (Reuters) - One U.S. soldier was killed and 15 others were wounded on Sunday when a Muslim American serviceman apparently angered by the war against Iraq (news - web sites) rolled hand grenades into their tents. The suspect, a sergeant from an engineering unit, was detained shortly after the early morning attack at a tented command center in Kuwait. "He's a Muslim, and it seems he was just against the war," said o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 23 09:49:50 PST 2003

25373 Kristol on the next counterculture -- rank: 1000

[The conclusion of a piece in today's NYT styles section on how there's an antiwar movement but no counterculture; the reporter seems underinformed on countercultures. But this quote from Kristol reminds me of the one from Bill Buckley that Corey Robin used to end a Lingua Franca piece. Asked to imagine a young version of himself in the year 2000, Buckley responded "I'd be a socialist. A Mike Harrington socialist. I'd even say a communist." Does the smarter right worry that it's tired ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 23 08:20:59 PST 2003

25374 today's NYC demo -- rank: 1000

I just posted some pictures of today's NYC antiwar demo: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/March22_intro.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 22 16:24:35 PST 2003

25375 more polling xtabs -- rank: 1000

[this is from the director of polling for ABC] This except from our 1/28/03 ABC News poll analysis may help. AL QAEDA - Bush's assertion in his speech that Saddam Hussein "aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda" is one that confirms a perception already held by many Americans. Any number of polls since Sept. 11, 2001, have shown that most do think Iraq supports those terrorists; in this survey, 68 percent say so. This perception is an important one in fueling suppo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 22 07:56:37 PST 2003

25376 more idiocy -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >If the francophobia extends to Russia, will they rename the Black Russian >"Black Freedom"? That would be kind of cool. Ha. Well long ago we renamed Russian dressing "thousand island," no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 22 07:50:46 PST 2003

25377 ideologues reshape world over breakfast -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 22, 2003 Ideologues reshape world over breakfast By Guy Dinmore in Washington Billed as a "black coffee briefing on the war on Iraq", yesterday's breakfast for the influential hawks of the American Enterprise Institute was more of a victory celebration. With a few words of caution - that the war to oust Saddam Hussein was not yet over - the panel of speakers, part of the Bush administration's ideological vanguard, set out their bold vision of the postwar agenda: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 22 07:42:55 PST 2003

25378 CFP: Bad Subjects - Iraq War Culture -- rank: 1000

>BAD SUBJECTS > >Emergency Call for Papers: Iraq War Culture > >Bad Subjects <http://eserver.org/bs> calls for essays for an Extra >Bad! issue on the culture of the Iraq War. This is an unscheduled >issue that responds to the immediate US invasion of Iraq and the >massive global anti-war movement in opposition. The deadline for >draft essays will be Friday, April 4 and the issue will appear on >Monday, April 7, 2003. > >We will be especially intereste ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 21 16:42:46 PST 2003

25379 Protesters Carjacking? -- rank: 1000

RE wrote: >SUV?? Lexus?? Hummer?? Beemer?? Lamborghini?? (Yes, that's a >wish surfacing, along with applause.) But Lamborghini's are beautiful! It'd hurt to see a scratch on one. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 21 16:39:47 PST 2003

25380 SH, 9/11, and war -- rank: 1000

[more from the AAPORites - this shows the share supporting and opposing military action, broken down by whether respondent believes SH was involved in 9/11 or not] CBS poll released March 10: Military Action Total Approve Disapprove 66% 30% Think SH involved in 9/11 45% 84% 14% Not Think SH involved in 9/11 40% 49% 47% Pew Poll released Feb. 20: Military Action Total Approve Disapprove 66% 26% Think SH involved in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 21 15:37:11 PST 2003