Iraqi women
Seem to have disappeared. Laura at Two Broads Blogging comments here and Jeanne D’arc has more links here.
Iraq
Looking Glass Notes
Charles Dodson was busy yesterday. He has commentary on Bush’s Lincoln speach, the 2002 stats on worldwide terrorist attacks (down 30%, maybe), and yet another Iraq conspiracy theory: just why did the Republican Guard disappear? These posts appear one after the other in sequence so you get just the top link.
Democracy in Iraq
Tim Dunlop mulls over Rumsfeld’s views on Iraq’s post war political structure and Jane Finch at The Daily Rant likes Tim’s ‘faith based initiative’ line. In the comments to the latter post Nathan tells us:
From what I understand, we would like to establish a robust constitution with strong guarantees for civil rights. Democracy has demonstrated that it is an excellent vehicle for preserving such rights. Islamic govts have not, and tend to overthrow such guarantees as soon as possible.
For democracy to work, a party has to win power, lose power, and then be able to regain power again.
Jane responds:
Nathan, how about the Iraqis establish their own constitution?
Read more at The Daily Rant (link above).
Perhaps they can just copy Qatar’s pending new constitution (which I discussed here a few days ago). It likely won’t fit Nathan’s expectations (which I tend to agree with) but it just might do for a faith based initiative.
Hoist With his own WMDs
The Apostropher joins Skippy, Talkleft and the British press (see the Talkleft link) in raising the issue of the missing WMD. Apostropher goes one step beyond and raises the Powell question:
Colin Powell now has zero credibility in my eyes for taking part in this charade.
Unless some of the many stated casus belli start bearing fruit Powell will not be the last to start falling.
The Price of Iraqi Freedom
Take a look at this from MatthewYglesias and then read about Kieran Healy’s idea for Freedom Markets.
If you start hearing talk about the bad economy being the price of freedom on your local Clear Channel station you can bet that it is part of the Bush campaign strategy. Hey, if the US people don’t buy this how is he gonna fight another war and still get elected again.