longest. war. ever.

[rone]

My ex-congressman Tom Campbell weighs in on Bush-Saddam II. I sure miss this guy; we exchanged some e-mail about the Anti Flag Burning Amendment and it was a really good discussion on which we had to agree to disagree. I hope there are people in Congress who are as smart, honest, and direct as he is. He ran for Senate against DiFi and lost, and now works at UC Berkeley. We got stuck with Mike Honda, but now have Zoe Lofgren (yay) thanks to the recent gerrymandering. So it's not a total loss...

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[waider.livejournal.com]

still reading the article, but he's another one perpetrating the myth that the UN inspectors were expelled from Iraq in 1998. Can we please put a cap on this "fact"? I posted a nice link some time ago quoting some of the major newspapers from 1998 and from just this past year, and pretty much all of them reported in 1998 that the UN inspectors voluntarily withdrew - admittedly due to lack of cooperation from the Iraqis - while rereporting in 2002 that they had been expelled. Unfortunately, I can't find that link right now, dammit.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/47826.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/212123.stm both cover the departure of weapons inspectors. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/crisis_in_the_gulf/road_to_the_brink/216264.stm has a nice overview of the events which led to that situation (with links to more detailed accounts of particular incidents).