| Saturday, March 22, 2003 |
02:47 - Miscellaneity
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Chris and I stopped off at a 7-11 on the way back from squash just now; and looking at the headlines and cover stories of the weekly magazines on the rack, I realized: these were all printed before the war started.
The war might be over before the first magazine his the stands that says WAR!
Interestingly, though: the BBC, on the way home, was reporting (via the Iraqi information minister, ahem) that Saddam has appeared repeatedly on TV, confident and healthy, over the past several days.
Have I just been missing the reports of this everywhere else?
Oh, and just now they had on some guy from the international Human Rights Watch or some such organization... demanding in broken English that the Americans show proof that they're making some small attempt to distinguish military targets from civilian areas. You know, nothing much-- we cannot expect those bloodthirsty Americans to provide more than the barest minimum cooperation toward human rights. But all we ask is that they try to at least acknowledge the Geneva Convention. Whatever restraint we can get those barbarians to show is a victory for humanity everywhere.
Sweet merciful crap. Now I know what Lileks meant by those indelible BBC sneers.
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