Antiwar.com Blog

I meant to write this post about six weeks ago, so forgive me if anyone’s asked the question already, but: Would you buy this car on eBay?

Before all the warbloggers gave their stamp of credulity to US government photos of the car in which Italian agent Nicola Calipari was killed by US forces, they should have asked themselves that question. And I’m sure they would have, if they weren’t partisan hacks with heads full of oatmeal. Take a look at the listings on eBay Motors. Notice how almost every listing has photos of the car from at least a dozen angles, interior and exterior as well as under the hood? Now if you, dear reader, a person with a healthy amount of skepticism and your money on the line, saw a seller with only a few pics, all from one side, wouldn’t ya be a little suspicious?

The Italians sure are:

After the killing, the United States and Italian governments agreed to conduct a joint investigation, because accounts of witnesses – including the journalist and the American soldiers – varied greatly as to whether the car had been warned to slow down and how fast it had been traveling.

The bullet-riddled car in which Mr. Calipari and Ms. Sgrena were driving was returned to Italy today now that the evidence-gathering portion of the joint investigation was over.

In the past two days, the Italian news media has been filled with unattributed reports that the two Italian members of the team have refused to sign the investigation’s report, because they disagree with its conclusions.

If you are an Antiwar.com reader living near our home office in the San Francisco Bay Area, we’d like to ask for your help! We are looking for a volunteer to help us with processing donations. The job isn’t for thrill-seekers; it would mostly involve data entry, and possibly mail merging, print overseeing and envelope stuffing. But the commitment is light and the hours flexible; after a little training, we’d probably just need you for a few days at a time, four times throughout the year. So if you’ve been looking for a hands-on way to support Antiwar.com, here’s your chance. If interested, please contact Outreach Coordinator and Culture Editor Michael Austin with inquiries.

I meant to write this post about six weeks ago, so forgive me if anyone’s asked the question already, but: Would you buy this car on eBay?

Before all the warbloggers whooped and hollered about US government photos of the car in which Italian agent Nicola Calipari was killed by US forces, they should have asked themselves that question. Which I’m sure they would have, if they weren’t partisan hacks with heads full of concrete. Take a look at the listings on eBay Motors. Notice how almost every listing has photos of the car from at least a dozen angles, interior and exterior as well as under the hood? Now if you, dear reader, a person with a healthy amount of skepticism and an interest in

Wow. BBC reporter and weblogger Stuart Hughes is being blackmailed and threatened by a Romanian hacker who has hijacked his blog. Apparently, the guy took over Stuart’s blog and demanded that he post about the Romanian journalists held hostage in Iraq.

Daster again! I told you to help our romanian journalists hostages in Iraq and you ignored me! That’s mean you don’t care about them……ok…this is an Ultimatum! If tomorrow our journalists will die, i promise you that i’ll distroy you!!! I have all your accounts. I’m not a bad guy but if you’ll ignore me again i swear i’ll distroy you!!!I hope that you are sure now that’s not a joke….don’t make me angry…
[…]
If you are not worried about you, or your family…ignore me again…Anyway next time (wich means tommorow if you don’t publish any thing about journalists) i’ll block your credit card, your cell phone ,and your access to internet……see you soon!

Romanian hacker, DASTER!

People posting comments are saying that Daster has done this before.

Yaron Brook, director of the Ayn Rand Institute, speaking at Tufts University:

“[President George W.] Bush has not taken the actions necessary to defeat terrorism,” Brook said in his opening statement. “Instead, he has unnecessarily sacrificed [American] soldiers’ lives … because we hesitated to kill so-called innocents.” …

He made reference to World War II, when Allied leaders authorized the bombings of German and Japanese cities, including the dropping of atomic bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “Doing so saved thousands of lives and ultimately ended the war,” Brook said.

“All Americans today owe their lives to leaders who do whatever it takes to win the war – [those past leaders] were willing to kill anyone. Civilians of enemy nations are part of the [enemy] war machine,” he said. …

Brook attacked just-war theory’s principles that force used in war must be proportionate to the threat. “In my view this is horrific,” he said. “That’s saying we must balance the deaths of U.S. soldiers and civilians with the deaths of enemy soldiers and civilians … and sacrifice the greatest nation in the history of the world to the worst countries today.”

He also criticized just-war theory’s idea that combatants should be distinguished from non-combatants. “Directly targeting civilians is perfectly legitimate,” Brook said. “If it’s possible to isolate the truly innocent – such as children and freedom fighters – at no military cost, then do so. But insofar as the innocent cannot be isolated … they should be killed without any moral hesitation.” …

Disheartening stuff, but on the upside there’s this:

He said Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia are nations that currently pose large threats to the United States, but that Bush will not and is not doing anything because “a man truly dedicated to self-defense cannot justify going to war with them. Iran threatens the United States the most, but we can’t attack because there has been no genocide and there is no universally-accepted monster in power there.”

That has to be the least accurate criticism of George W. Bush I’ve ever come across. Remember it when Dubya starts agitating for war with Iran this summer.

In the comments section at bottom, this wonderful response from a student:

What is Objectivism? Some sort of collectivist/socialist ideology?

I find it monstrous to kill innocent civilians for the crimes of their leaders and their armies. That’s nothing but collectivism at its most ugly. Morality and justice pertains to individuals, not to collective entities like the state.

I wonder if Mr. Brooks would support me killing a random black guy because one robbed me last week. After all, there is some small chance that any given one could attack me. If I killed every one I saw, I’d surely be safer. Indeed, doing anything less would be “altruistic”.

This guy sickens me.

And another gem:

Objectivism : Conservatives :: Scientology : Hollywood

(Hat tip: Anti-State.com)

Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere. Ha ha ha!

Or not.