Year: 2003

Crunch Time For The UN: After an agonizingly slow, plodding, more than year long “rush to war,” we’re about to get down to brass tacks. On Friday, the inspectors will give another report and then supposedly the Brits are going to ask for the UN Security Council to vote on commencing hostilities soon afterwards. It’s […]

Poets Against The War: Today is the much awaited (at least by me) “Day of Poetry Against the War.” All over the net, people who aren’t even skilled enough to even pen a proper anti-war editorial have sent their poetic scribblings to an anti-war poetry page that put 5300 of them up. I read about […]

The Mark Steyn Interview: A couple of weeks ago, I was delighted when Mark Steyn agreed to do an interview via email with me. I’ve said more than once that I think Steyn is the best in the business at what he does and apparently a lot of people agree with me since warbloggers arounds […]

An Observation About Democrats And Toilet Paper: After the 2002 elections, Democrats came to the conclusion that their biggest mistake was not being critical enough of Bush. Personally, I think their weak stand on the war, their lack of ideas, and even the Wellstone memorial service had more to do with their faltering in the […]

Cross-Blog Iraq Debate: The Questions: The Truth Laid Bear is sponsoring a, “Cross-Blog Iraq Debate.” The general idea is that the pro-war & anti-war sides will pose questions that they’d like to see the other side answer. Here are my replies to the best questions the anti-war side could come up with… “1) Attacking Iraq […]

Dragons, Unicorns, Goblins, Ogres And Trolls — All Have Once Existed: In today’s edition of ACPOTI (Anyone Can Post On The Internet), I decide to explore the world of the paranormal on the forums of The Fortean Times — The Journal Of Strange Phenomena. While there were more than a few scary people on these […]

New UN Resolution Gives Iraq Only 12 More Years By Scott Ott: (2003-02-10) — France today will introduce a new resolution in the United Nations Security Council giving Iraq “only 12 more years to comply” with the UN resolutions of the past 12 years. The resolution is the hardest line yet taken by the French, […]

The Consequences Of The Anti-War Crowd’s Position: The possible negative consequences of an Iraqi invasion have been discussed ad nauseum in recent months. We’ve been told that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians could die, many Americans will die in street to street fighting, that the risk of terrorism will be increased, that our attacks […]

The First Annual Warblogger Awards: In order to recognize the excellent work some of our fellow warbloggers have been doing, RWN created the first annual “Warblogger Awards”. More than 125 bloggers were invited to vote for their favorite blog in numerous categories. Of the 125 bloggers who were invited to judge the contest, 67 responded […]

More Plagiarized Material Found In Another British Intelligence Dossier: After learning that Britain’s last intelligence dossier contained large amounts of material plagiarized from a graduate student, reporters combed through previous dossiers and found more suspect material. The following section of a December, 2002 intelligence dossier is thought to have come from a homework assignment done […]

I Get Letters: This may shock some of you, but there are actually people out there that don’t agree with me. I know, I know, I believed all those left-wingers who said that dissent was no longer allowed in America just like you did. Now your first reaction after learning that there is still dissent […]

800,000+ Illegals Entering Annually In Late ’90S By Mark Krikorian: On January 31, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) released its latest estimates of the illegal alien population in the United States. While several media outlets have reported the overall findings that 7 million illegal aliens lived in the United States in 2000, other information […]

There Are Presently 90,000 Chinese Soldiers In Uniform 20 Miles South Of Tijuana: One of RWN’s readers, Nick Bouterie, sent me an email that he received from one of his friends who seems to be a member of the “black helicopter crowd.” The email proved to be entertaining reading, so I decided to take Nick’s […]

Misc: A few things of note… — RWN contributor Alan Caruba has finally sent his first book, Warning Signs to market. If you like Alan’s work you should give it a look. — If you’re looking to improve your web related skills, I’d like to recommend LVS Online to you. Personally I’m taking two courses […]

What’s Next? Will They Title A Report In Crayon?: I cannot believe that the Blair administration made this sort of boneheaded mistake… “Channel Four News has learnt that the bulk of the nineteen page document (link goes to word document) was copied from three different articles – one written by a graduate student. On Monday, […]

Since today is Ronald Reagan’s 92nd birthday, I thought it would be a good time to remind people of what Reagan accomplished during his eight years in office. That shouldn’t be necessary, but Reagan’s critics continually harp upon the faults of his administration (increasing the debt, Iran Contra) & regularly attempt to distort his record […]

Looking At The War From An Iraqi Perspective: Since war with Iraq is almost inevitable at this point, I thought it might be interesting to visit the only Iraqi blog that I know of, “Where is Raed? Here are three posts from that blog that I thought were of particular interest… On the American psywar […]

U.N. Security Council Sets Conditions for Invasion By Scott Ott: (2003-02-05) — After U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s compelling Presentation of evidence that Iraq is violating U.N. sanctions, the Security Council passed a resolution authorizing the use of force if the following qualifications are met: –Multiple independently-targetted warheads are launched from Iraq toward any […]

Quote Of The Day: This quote from Ralph Peters describes many of the celebrities who have come out against the war lately, Jimmy Carter, and a lot of the anti-war crowd to the T… “The “peace movement” is and has been a curious affair for at least a century. It has always found its recruits […]

In My World: U.S. Troops To Be Led By Haunted Robot: Secretary of State Colin Powell plans to present evidence to the U.N. today that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction and is mocking the rest of the world. On one audio tape, Saddam reportedly says, “I have weapons of mass destruction! Stupid world; I […]

The World’s Collective Blindspot: There are a couple of polls I’ve seen lately that I find to be quite troubling. First up is a poll mentioned by David Frum… “Last week, the left-wing tabloid the Daily Mirror sponsored a poll of British opinion about Iraq. It offered readers three options: immediate war, war after further […]

America Corrupts The Children Of Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia’s Arab News has run an unintentionally hilarious editorial called, “Another American trick.” Apparently we American pig-dog, Yankee, capitalist, cowboy hegemons are corrupting the youth of Saudi Arabia. Arab News covers the chilling story… “In an attempt to counter the effects of a popular campaign calling for […]

A Short Guide To Blogosphere Jargon: I frequently have people ask me what particular terms they hear around the “blogosphere” actually mean. In order to answer these questions, I decided to create my own little reference guide that covers the most used terms. Some of these definitions were written from scratch and others were gathered […]

Richard Perle Pulls Out The ‘Clue Bazooka’: The “head of the Pentagon’s top advisory board,” Richard Perle, put down the “clue bat” and picked up a clue bazooka that he promptly launched at point blank range directly at the Axis of Weasels… “France is no longer the ally it once was,” Perle said. And he […]

Fisking The Saddam Hussein Interview: You’ve just got to read this fawning, softball, interview w/ Saddam done by some anti-war British politico. To begin with, the Brit pol in question, Tony Benn pumps out a little leftist spiel that somehow reminds me of when Scott Ritter said that he wasn’t going to talk about the […]

Another Whacked Out Celebrity Shoots Off His Mouth? Big Surprise There…: “David Clennon, star of the hit CBS television series “The Agency,” is the latest celebrity to make a jackass out of himself. Here’s what Clennon bloviated about to Sean Hannity, “I’m saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is […]

Quote Of The Day: Tony Blair had this to say yesterday, “When people say to me why are you risking everything in a sense, politically, on this issue I say to them in all honesty I do not want to be the Prime Minister when people point the finger back at history and say you […]

Country Music Suggestions Needed: For the first time ever, I’m starting to get into country music. It began with Toby Keith’s, “Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue.” I really liked that song, which is why I went ahead and listened to a Johnny Cash cover of, “Hurt.” Again, that was just a phenomenal song. […]