http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:08:05 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/20/143330.php#comment-5187 As I said, not my mommy's war ^_^ And I'm glad. So very, very many good people died on both sides of pretty much all of the conflicts that preceded this one in history. This one we're not even destroying bridges. If we really are the world's bully, we're my kind of bully. How would these even translate to playground terms? The playground bully going around and what, putting two-foot thick padding over everyone else's fists so they can't punch anyone anymore, and then giving everyone twinkies? Wow. 5187@blogcritics.org Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:08:05 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/20/143330.php#comment-5172 Of course the government knows who is watching. That's why they're allowing these broadcasts. You don't think it's pretty scary for the top leaders in Iraq to know exactly what the enemy is doing and realizing their own troops aren't doing much of anything to stop them? And knowing that the entire world is capable of flipping on CNN to watch while it happens? This is about wearing the enemy down - these broadcasts are being watched by Saddam, if he isn't in a coma or dead, his underlings, and more importantly, his entire army. They can watch our troops roll unimpeded through the desert toward them and decide whether they really want to face that - or would they rather hold up the white flag and go be treated better by their captors than they ever were by their own leaders. 5172@blogcritics.org Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:01:43 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/20/143330.php#comment-5127 There's something wrong with watching survivor? Actually, the military has been very open about this war. Also, the capabilities of our munitions and such are all over the internet and were well known before the shooting started. We are, after all, an open democracy. Besides that, there is just very little Iraq can do about it. Have you noticed another big difference between Gulf I and II -- in two, we're flying daylight missions. Something rarely done during Gulf I, plus we pounded Iraq for a month before rolling the tanks. This time, we didn't even wait 24 hours. 5127@blogcritics.org Fri, 21 Mar 2003 02:53:52 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/20/143330.php#comment-5116 Hey- complaining that repetitive and over-informative newscasts about Iraq get in the way of watching "survivor" is about as bone-headed as assuming that everything happening in Iraq is being presented on your television. Go read a book. 5116@blogcritics.org Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:50:00 EST