- What is going on with N Korea's nuclear reactor?
- Obvious headline of the day: Stressed army makes U.S. vulnerable: retired general
- General Peter Pace (sockpuppet brigade) spouts talking points:
But Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military has the ability to take on a major new conflict, despite the strain of Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I try to speak very precisely publicly about this because the worst thing you can do is you have some country sitting out there miscalculating the enormous residual capacity of the United States military and think that they can do something because we are currently tied up," Pace told reporters in Washington.
"We are focused on Iraq. We are focused on Afghanistan. We do have a lot of our assets there. But we do have enormous residual capacity that's available to the nation," he said.
Shorter Pace: Iran, here we come.
- Bush at the Va Tech convocation on Tuesday:
As the Scriptures tell us, "Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
"Good". Like war, for example.
- "No kidding!" headline of the day: 'Rampage may not influence '08 presidential race'. It's all lip-flapping anyway. Does anyone really think their gun laws will change?
- The tories are feeling the heat over their attempts to screw with Canada's gun registry in the meantime.
- A Canadian veteran comes to terms with his past. (All the best to you Dave and thank you for that courageous post.)
- Juan Cole: Iraq Has Two Virginia Techs Every Day
- Also, "about 70% of primary school students in a Baghdad neighborhood suffer symptoms of trauma-related stress such as bed-wetting or stuttering, according to a survey by the Iraqi Ministry of Health." And with the constant barrage of violence they continue to witness, there will no doubt be many more long-lasting symptoms to come.
- Meanwhile, the UNHCR is calling on the west to help Iraq's 4 million refugees. As I wrote elsewhere yesterday, the refugee situation in Iraq is akin to the horrendous coverage we saw of stranded hurricane Katrina victims in NOLA - except that these refugees have been stuck in their virtual convention center begging for help for years. The BBC has 4 Iraq refugee stories.
- Dennis Kucinich intends to file articles of impeachment against Cheney. Go Dennis!
- It's the 25th anniversary of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Chretien shared his thoughts with CTV's Mike Duffy on Tuesday. Meanwhile, in a totally unsurprising move: "The current Conservative government has no plans to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Charter." Yes, that's Canada's "new" government for you. Rights? Freedoms? Eh?
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