Month: September 2003

Is Jerry Falwell Muslim?

FAIR has a decent review of Clark’s actual statements on the Iraq war, concluding that “to label a candidate with such views ‘anti-war’ is to render the term meaningless.” Of course, the Clintonoids at FAIR cast no aspersion on Gen. Clark’s vicious, and sometimes downright insane, prosecution of the war on Serbia. Thank goodness for Antiwar.com, eh?

For the viciousness, check out … well, pretty much every article about Serbia that’s ever appeared on Antiwar.com. You can start with the work of Nebojsa Malic.

For the insanity, see Stella Jatras, “The Guy Who Almost Started World War III.”

Today’s article reviews the book What Every Person Should Know About War by Chris Hedges. I just came across an interesting interview with the author about the book. Click here to read it.

If you’re interested in the interplay of war and culture from Euripides to Stanley Kubrick, check out Prof. David Hart’s website. It’s more or less a collection of syllabi from his courses at the University of Adelaide (Australia), with pages on visual art, film, music, and literature (it includes several e-texts). Hart approaches war from an individualist libertarian perspective. I’ve heard him speak before, and he’s quite an interesting fellow.

Charge wounded soldiers for their hospital meals. From Stars & Stripes:

Troops wounded in combat in the nation’s war on terrorism are being handed more than just discharge papers when they leave military hospitals — some also are getting a bill.

At a daily rate of $8.10, hospitalized troops, including those wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, are being charged for their meals.

They don’t really do this, do they?

“I was amazed. I couldn’t believe it when I heard it,” said Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, who has introduced a bill to repeal what he calls an “offensive” law.”

Thumbs up to Young for spending some of his own money on the problem:

To make a point about their objection, Young and his wife, Beverly, recently paid the $210.60 hospital from the National Navy Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., for a Marine Corps reservist who lost part of his foot during a recent deployment in which, according to Young, a 10-year-old Iraqi dropped a grenade in the staff sergeant’s Humvee.

Does George Bush lack any feeling even for his pawns?

Al Jazeera consorts with terrorists, and now this! I swear, that Arab press is rabid!

Oh, wait, the Jerusalem Post isn’t an Arab paper?

The British government absolves itself of any blame for sexed-up documents.