Take Jonathan’s disgusting quiz!
Warbloggers expose fake protest
The largest Greyhound bus has 55 passenger seats. How many busses does it take to bus a half-million person protest in from Syria?
Some warbloggers need to know. Here.
Oh, and this makes it even trickier. Those wily Syrians bussed in a half million men! All the protesters were men! The warbloggers know this because they’ve looked at all the pictures.
This is a classic “Good versus Evil” match-up, and it’s why we must be willing to support the anti-Syrian side with EVERYTHING we got!
AND ANOTHER THING: Were all those angry pro-Syrian men Lebanese?
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THEREFORE, I think ONE MUST CONCLUDE that many MANY MANY of the Hizballah men demonstrating were Syrian – or Palestinian Arabs from the UN refugee camps. (AT LEAST HALF!)That’s ANOTHER reason we must support the pluralistic, pro-democracy – LEBANESE side over the pro-Syrian forces!
See? It’s all logical and everything, and besides, if Glen Reynolds linked to it, it must be true.
And if Instamonger linked to it, well would other warbloggers be far behind?
UPDATE: Welcome ROGER L. SIMON readers! And if you’re not one yet – YOU SHOULD BE – – EVERYDAY! And… WELCOME INSTAPUNDIT READERS! Glenn has other links on this issue – including one to a new AP story that suggests some cross-border busing – CHECK IT OUT! UPDATE #2: Welcome all you folks from NRO’s The Corner – and thanks KJ! Please y’all check out a few other posts!
UPDATE: This informative comment was left in the thread following the above quoted post. Thanks to all the Antiwar readers who countered the poor hysterical Bushie in his comments.
lebanon. if the truth is what you want. i saw the marchers heading out to the rally. they were men, women and some children. the call was out to 30 political parties. there were christians and sunnis, druez and commies… you name it and the lebanese parties were there. the intent of the rally was three fold. 1. to thank syria, the soldiers they lost, blood they shed to help lebanon. 2. to make a statement to the u.n., rejecting res. 1559. 3. to voice their opinion that we need to get to the truth on the murder of hariri. maybe the concept of 1mil. participants is mind-blowing but when looking at the real crowd, it could well be that many people. the congestion was all throughout the country. this is a country who’s land mass is virtually eaqual to mi.’s upper penninsula. so you can walk to downtown in a half hour. the roads were clogged with teenagers all pumped up, which is different than angry. there was also, an important fact ignored by all the media, not one single incident of violence against a woman or a man, by security or the army or the police. this is a country that g.w. would have the world believe was a country not ruled by law. lebanon is special, the lebanese are special people. the war has made them willing, willing to live and willing to die. i believe that the lebanese people want syria as a friendly neighbor, who will kick-ass if anyone wants to try anything. syria is not perfect, but it has a history and future linked with lebanon.
# posted by sincerely : 9:32 AM
sincerely appears to be starting a blog named lebanon. We’ll have to keep an eye on that one.
US troops in Anti-Fratricide training
AMERICAN soldiers in Iraq are being given “anti-fratricide” training to reduce the number of friendly fire attacks against British and other coalition troops, The Times has learnt.
Thirty-two “blue-on-blue” attacks on British and other coalition vehicles have been logged in the past twelve months in southern Iraq, Britain’s area of responsibility.
The training was revealed as Washington and Rome announced a joint inquiry into the killing last week of an Italian secret agent when US troops opened fire on the car in which he was accompanying a freed hostage to Baghdad airport.
The inquiry was announced by General George Casey, commander of multinational forces in Iraq, after Gianfranco Fini, the Italian Foreign Minister, had highlighted differences between the American and Italian versions of the incident.
Nicola Calipari, an experienced hostage negotiator, was killed as he protected Giuliana Sgrena, a journalist, who had been held for a month.
On the same day, a 30-year-old Bulgarian machinegunner was shot and killed in a second friendly fire incident, for which US forces were also blamed.
The vast majority of the 32 reported incidents involved American troops opening fire at night-time against suspected insurgents who turned out to be friendly forces, on or near the main route through southern Iraq used by US convoys.
Military officials in Basra, where the British-controlled Multinational Division (Southeast) is based, said that the “vehicle blue-on-blue incidents” in the period from February last year had resulted in ten minor injuries. “There have been no fatalities,” one said.
The officials declined to spell out the injuries received or whether they were all British soldiers, but they confirmed that most of the “firing nationalities” were American. A small number of incidents involved Romanian and Bulgarian troops opening fire.
US commanders were so worried that their men were shooting at the British because they failed to recognise the Union Jack or other distinguishing military markings that, in an unprecedented move, they asked the British Army to supply vehicles, men and flags to teach their soldiers what their allies looked like.
It is understood that the British supplied several “snatch” armoured Land Rovers, the most common vehicle used by British troops on patrol and senior non-commissioned officers, with Union Jacks, to instruct the Americans.
Recent Letters, March 8
In Backtalk:
Greg Brownfield: deliberate irrationalism is one of the pillars of fascism — & the Bushies have rejected the “reality-based community.”
Scott Erb, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Maine at Farmington: Democracy or Republic? Democracy does not mean majoritarianism.
Steve Barrett: Just say no to the ASVAB.
Matthew Barganier: And the special skills draft.
David Wilmsen, Contributing Editor, Transnational Broadcasting Studies, Arabic and Translation Studies, The American University in Cairo: Lebanon already IS a democracy.
Scott Horton: And Israel isn’t.
And more…
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Kosovo PM Indicted, Resigns
AP reports that Ramush Haradinaj, the “Prime Minister” of the “provisional institutions of self-government” in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo, has resigned upon receiving the ICTY indictment against him, and is scheduled to fly to The Hague tomorrow. All over the province, NATO troops and UN police are on high alert, anticipating violence from pro-KLA Albanians, who reportedly consider Haradinaj a hero.
Some 500 UK troops arrived in Kosovo yesterday, in addition to the 600 Germans deployer earlier, in a show of force intended to prevent a repeat of last year’s pogrom. Continue reading “Kosovo PM Indicted, Resigns”
RAF Hercules downed by missile in Iraq?
Well, well, well. I can’t wait to see what Bruce has to say about this report:
A missile fired by insurgents from the ground probably destroyed an RAF Hercules C-130 cargo plane in Iraq with the loss of 10 British special operations servicemen, an interim report by Ministry of Defence accident investigators has revealed.
The findings, outlined to MPs by Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, raised fears within the MoD that the insurgents could possess a new missile capable of hitting aircraft flying above 15,000 feet.
The board of inquiry ruled out the possibility that the Hercules, which was supplying a special-operations base north of Baghdad, was blown up by an on-board bomb or an explosion caused by an accident with bombs or ammunition on board.
The inquiry team will now have to determine whether the plane was brought down by a heat-seeking missile designed to reach aircraft at high altitude or was a lucky strike by insurgents using a Sam (surface-to-air) missile which normally has a range of less than 10,000 feet.
It’s a mystery!
UPDATE: Bruce comments on the Independent article.
Read his whole post, but here’s the essential line: “The Janes expert quoted beats me to the obvious conclusion… that the plane was flying at low altitude for some reason.“