Target Centermass

Day: July 1, 2004

  • U.S. to Pull Forces From 2 U.N. Missions

    Seems to only be a token gesture, but the U.S. military is backing out of two tiny deployments.

    The U.S. military will pull tiny contingents out of two U.N. peacekeeping missions because Americans no longer are exempt from international prosecution for war crimes, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.

    A seven-person team will be removed from the U.N. mission to keep the peace between the African nations of Ethiopia and Eritrea, and two liaison officers will be taken out of the U.N. mission in Kosovo, spokesman Larry Di Rita told reporters at a new conference.

    We should pull, or at the very least threaten to pull, our 2,200 troops from Kosovo, with the explanation of principle and more dire need elsewhere. Specifically, enforcing U.N. resolutions in Iraq.

    I do so tire of the League of Nations, Part Deux.

  • Cohen: F9/11 So Bad It Could Help Bush

    In the latest column of liberal Richard Cohen, the film Fahrenheit 9/11 is shredded, both on methodology and relevance.

    I go on about Moore and Ellis because the stunning box office success of “Fahrenheit 9/11” is not, as proclaimed, a sure sign that Bush is on his way out, but instead a warning to the Democrats to keep the loony left at a safe distance.

    Unfortunately, it may be too late for the Dems to keep the loony left at arm’s length. In fact, it seems the loons are the rudder of the good ship Democrat, steering hard a’port.

    It is so juvenile in its approach, so awful in its journalism, such an inside joke for people who already hate Bush, that I found myself feeling a bit sorry for a President who is depicted mostly as a befuddled dope.

    I fear how it will play to the undecided. For them, I recommend “Spider-Man 2.”

  • A Letter to the American People

    The Iraq-America Freedom Alliance took out a full-page ad in the USA Today, extending their hands “in friendship and gratitude to the American people.”

    When freedom is born where it has never existed, the desire of all people to live in peace and dignity will only grow. With America’s support, we know that someday Iraqi children will dare to dream the same dreams as American children.

    I believe the children are the future … damn you, Whitney Houston, get out of my head!