I still have very limited use of my left hand (heavily bandaged because of the damage done to the palm of my hand, and my thumb and pinky fingers are also bandaged), which makes typing somewhat difficult (reduced to pecking with my left hand).
I have a doctors appointment tomorrow (first since my second ACL reconstruction back in 1997) for a once-over after my accident (as I refused transport to the hospital), so hopefully I’ll be back to regular writing in the next few days.
Some quick hits before I resume my recuperation:
Harriet Meirs withdraws from nomination — I’m thankful. She never should have been nominated. This was cronyism at its worst. I hope the next nominee (and President Bush) is prepared to answer the “How’s it feel to be the second choice?” questions that will be inevitable.
The death of the 2000th soldier — it’s a damn shame that the anti-war crowd has found cause for celebration at the death of another soldier. Soldiers die in war. We are at war. Each of those soldiers is as heroic as the next. And the 2001 soldier will be no less heroic.
Some things are worth fighting for. A free Iraq is worth fighting for. A free Middle East is worth fighting for. A world free of terrorism is worth fighting for.
My friends believed that, too.
The people that are against a free Iraq are people that don’t believe that anything is worth fighting for.
Which is why they are miserable creatures.
Oil-for-food kickbacks — More than 4,500 companies took part in the United Nations oil-for-food program. And it looks like more than half of them paid illegal surcharges and kickbacks to Saddam Hussein.
Just one more reason why the US needs to completely and immediately abandon the corrupt and ineffective UN.
This latest report lends even more credence to the Den Beste Theory that France was opposed to invasion in part for fear that once Saddam was toppled we’d discover how much they’d been violating sanctions.
Yep. Freakin’ Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
France was opposed to invasion in part for fear that once Saddam was toppled we’d discover how much they’d been violating sanctions. But the main reason that France opposed the invasion was the loss of its cozy deals with Saddam. Remember, with the French it’s always money over morals. If the French are not embarrassed by these revelations, then it isn’t possible for them to be embarrassed by their own behavior no matter what they do.
Left by avaroo on October 28th, 2005 at 11:49 pm