Year: 2003

Things Aren’t Going As Badly As The Mainstream Media Would Have You Believe: For some reason, the mainstream media has a tendency to give a very negative spin to war news. Maybe it’s because they tend to lean to the left or because of the media’s tendency to accentuate the negative aspects of stories, but […]

The Michael Fumento Interview: I was pleased to get an opportunity to interview Michael Fumento by email. For those of you who are unfamiliar with his work, here’s a little information about Mr. Fumento from his bio… “Mr. Fumento has lectured on science and health issues throughout the nation and the world, including Great Britain, […]

DU Post Of The Day: Here’s the crazed wacko post of the day from the DU. When you read stuff like this at the Democratic Underground you just have to wonder how in touch with reality some of these people are… HappyLibLady (1155 posts): “It was interesting to see the interviews being held with a […]

What’s The Point Of The Geneva Convention?: Even I find all these claims that the Iraqis are violating the Geneva Convention in the way that they’re treating our prisoners to be ludicrous. That’s not because I don’t believe the Iraqis are violating the Geneva Convention, but because no one could possibly expect that the Iraqis […]

Don’t Claim To Be Against The War Because Of The Iraqi People: As we all know, the anti-Bush anti-war crowd wants to leave Saddam in place get rid of Saddam just as much as the pro-war crowd. But, they don’t think we should go to war and remove Saddam because it’s in America’s interests and […]

Let The Vietnam Comparisons Begin: I think we have a new record. In Afghanistan, 24 days after we started the bombing and roughly five weeks before we had almost the whole country in hand, RW. Apple from the New York Times was asking, “Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate […]

Vacation: I know, I know, here we are at the beginning of war, possibly hours away from a devastating “shock and awe” attack on Baghdad and I’m heading to the beach. That means no more updates today and no news or posts tomorrow. I’d love to hang around, but I need the time off and […]

I’ll Laugh My *ss Off For Everyone Of Them That Comes Home In A Black Bag: Last night as we were launching missiles at “targets of opportunity”, most people were probably wondering about whether we got Hussein or one of his kids. But me? I was wondering what sort of idiotic comments the anarchists at […]

Support Our Troops: War with Iraq appears to be imminent and it looks like the men and women in our armed forces will soon be going into combat. They’re going to be putting their lives on the line to protect our country and to liberate the Iraqi people and some of them won’t be coming […]

In My World: Rumsfeld Vows Frog-A-Cide By Frank J: “Can we start bombing them now?” Rumsfeld asked impatiently. “No, we still have to wait just a little bit more,” Condoleezza Rice answered. “If it weren’t for that sissy little Texan,” Rumsfeld declared angrily, “I could of demolished Iraq long ago, along with North Korea and […]

Saddam — Undead Despot?: The Globe and Mail has interviewed a crackpot Iraqi doctor who has a rather odd theory about Saddam Hussein… “About 10 years ago, I became interested in the link between physical traits and personality,” he said. “I began to study Saddam Hussein but when I looked at his ears in photographs […]

What Is Freedom For The Iraqi People Worth?: I’m not going to try to snow you and pretend that the primary reason I favor an invasion of Iraq is because I want to see the Iraqi people liberated. To the contrary, the principal reason I want to see us remove Saddam is because I believe […]

War With Iraq? It’s All About The Stargate!: According to some nut named Michael E. Salla who claims to be a college professor (I really, really, hope he just made that up) — Iraq is all about the Stargate. I think the abstract pretty much sums it up… “Most, if not all, criticisms of the […]

In My World — One Last Chance By Frank J.: The moment of truth has arrived at the U.N., as an informal Security Council meeting will finally decided the U.N.’s position on Iraq. If the U.N. votes for the military action, it will give further support to the U.S. war with Iraq. If the U.N. […]

RWN’s Favorite Success Quotes: I graduated from college with a Psych major & a Communications minor. Back in those days, I went through a lot of books — many of them on pop psychology and communications. However, I eventually got to a point where I felt like I was reading the same book over and […]

Ghostbusters: Second Coming Of Gozer Imminent by Rip Rowan: According to a press release by Dr. Peter Venkman of Ghostbusters, Inc., a second coming of the ancient Sumerian god Gozer is "days or weeks, not months or years" away. Ghostbusters, a paranormal elimination company based in New York, was responsible for the 1984 protonic reversal […]

The 15 Most Commented Upon Posts Of 2003: I thought you might be interested in seeing the 15 posts that have drawn the most comments so far in 2003. Here they are with the number of comments made in ()… (43) Feeling A Little Hot, Cold, Or Just Right ? Then It’s Probably Global Warming […]

Email From A Reader: Here’s an email I received today from RWN reader Ben Murnane along with my response… John, …but the US helped liberate France 58 years ago and that’s supposed to equal a blank cheque of support? Y’know, 5 French villagers still die every year from unexploded munitions at Verdun, where one million […]

Random Jottings: — The latest thing that French apologists have come up with is, “You people are bashing the French, but they helped us in the American Revolution! Oh and do you want to give the Statue of Liberty back?” Let’s see, roughly 220 years ago the French helped us revolt against the Brits and […]

James Zogby’s Credibility Is Shot: Before the 2002 elections, I questioned whether we could trust James Zogby’s polls which showed the Democrats doing very well in the 2002 Senate elections while all the other major polls showed the opposite. Here’s what I said the day before the election… “While I haven’t written him off completely, […]