Reuters is reporting that not only has Russia been providing Baghdad with forbidden military items, despite American protests, but that the U.S.“discovered Russian technicians in Baghdad aiding the Iraqis with the [Russian supplied] GPS jamming system after the start of the U.S.-led war.” Allied planes, bombs and other equipment rely heavily on GPS information.
via Lucianne.com
UPDATE: Here's the version from The New York Times:
The US on Sunday made public its protest to Moscow over the sales by Russian companies of anti-tank missiles and jamming equipment to the Iraqi military.
The State Department on Sunday voiced its anger at the Kremlin after a series of private requests as recently as last week by senior US government officials to Russia to halt the sales went ignored...
posted at 3:51 PM
Paleos in the news
The Eleven Day Empire reports on columnist Robert Novak:
who writes this morning to defend himself against charges of being "unpatriotic", leveled against him and other "paleoconservatives" by, among others, former Bush speechwriter (and current National Review writer) David Frum.
Meanwhile, The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reports that “The conservative movement is in shock and awe over a truly nasty brawl about Iraq.” He quotes Novak, who says:
It really poisons the political discourse to say that if you feel this hasn't been a wise decision on the part of the United States, you're criticizing your country and hoping for defeat.
Kurz then quotes prominent paleo Pat Buchanan, whose presumably non-poisonous political discourse includes such pearls as:
We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars.
posted at 11:30 AM
"The information we give you here is factual"
Tim Blair is reporting that when asked to respond to a piece in The New York Times, Australian Air Marshall Angus Houston replied:
I can't comment on articles that appear in American newspapers. The information we give you here is factual.
No word as to what the question was.
posted at 10:43 AM
An example of the problem with self-selected samples
While The Guardian’s sister publication, The Independent, observes that “Public opinion has swung sharply in support of the war in Iraq following the start of hostilities, Reader's editor Ian Mayes reports that The Guardian’s mail is running strongly against war:
…an analysis of 100 of Wednesday's war letters showed 87 against the war and 13 in support. By noon on Thursday the pro-war correspondence had dropped further.
All of which shows that opinions expressed by people writing letters to The Guardian don’t accurately reflect public opinion as a whole.
Both The Guardian and The Independent have taken strongly anti-war editorial stances.
posted at 10:19 AM
“only the female POW wasn't wearing boots”
Lex Communis on treatment of the female American POW by her captors:
…you can't imagine the cold chill I'm feeling right now. I hadn't attributed anything significant to that bit of information, which has been thrown out with offhand casualness and has not been the source of any exegesis from any news source I've read or heard.
Until now.
Now I get it.
And the Iraqis made sure to film her naked feet, to show that her boots had been removed.
I don’t expect that we’ll hear any outrage from the International Red Cross, though … or the French … or the Germans … or the Russians….
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