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Anil is right, Josh Llano is an evil, sick bastard. Of course, those who prostelytize are always doing stuff like this. Josh Llano is simply a prelude to what’ll happen after the fighting in Iraq. (more in Google News)

Here’s an Al-Jazeera report with some choice quotes:

“We do not deny the name of Christ. We believe in sharing him in deed and in word,” said Mark Kelly, a spokesman for the Southern Baptists.

The missionaries say that they plan to address the physical and spiritual needs of the Iraqi population.

From /.: Using Mozilla in testing and debugging web sites

Red Cross horrified by number of dead civilians

“We saw that a truck was delivering dozens of totally dismembered dead bodies of women and children. It was an awful sight. It was really very difficult to believe this was happening.”

More on conditions from Reuters. Daily Kos has a writeup (comments) on casualty reports from Russian Intelligence (GRU), available publically at Iraqwar.ru (next-day human translation).

George McGovern writes a scathing indictment and historical reflection on the Bush Administration in this month’s The Nation.

It has been argued that the Iraqi leader is hiding a few weapons of mass destruction, which we and eight other countries have long held. But can it be assumed that he would insure his incineration by attacking the United States? Can it be assumed that if we are to save ourselves we must strike Iraq before Iraq strikes us? This same reasoning was frequently employed during the half-century of cold war by hotheads recommending that we atomize the Soviet Union and China before they atomize us. Courtesy of The New Yorker, we are reminded of Tolstoy’s observation: “What an immense mass of evil must result…from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.” Or again, consider the words of Lord Stanmore, who concluded after the suicidal charge of the Light Brigade that it was “undertaken to resist an attack that was never threatened and probably never contemplated.” The symphony of falsehood orchestrated by the Bush team has been de-vised to defeat an Iraqi onslaught that “was never threatened and probably never comtemplated.”

(via mark, who’s writing again, including some poetic stanzas)

Hmm, Howard Dean has a new official blog, following Gary Hart’s lead, but it’s just not the same. Why? Because Gary Hart’s been writing his blog himself.

I never thought that much of him before, but since reading Hart’s recent postings, I’ve begun to respect him a lot more. There seems to be something much more genuine and personal about it that I can’t pin down. Maybe it’s the warm fuzzy feeling of personal connection in an increasingly impersonal world.

Can blogs really change the political landscape currently dominated by monolithic media, and lack of substantive dialogue? My natural inclination is towards doubt, but I can’t help but hope.

South Park + War Protest – flash, en español

Got an email the other day on PNAC.info, a new site dedicated to collection, analysis and dissemination of information about the Project for the New American Century.

Do Surgical Masks Stop SARS? (short answer: no)