[Pokey78]

Pinging the Steyn list.

[aristeides]

How does August 11th work for you? Say, 3 p.m. Eastern?

Sounds like shortly after sunset in Baghdad.

But the next new moon is August 8th.

[Constitution Day]

Anyway, just for the record, Osama bin Evil's son is called Saad, and I'd be saad if I found out I'd inherited a business whose principal asset was the executive latrine at Sub-Basement Level 14 in Tora Bora.

ROFL!

[swarthyguy]

"Arabists in the British Foreign Office who rarely miss an opportunity to give the House of Saud the full Monica."

Not to mention those in our State Dept. Steyn scores again!

[Oschisms]

But, as readers will recall, I said a couple of months back that the old has-bin was pushing up daisycutter bits in the Hindu Kush and I don't figure we'll be seeing him on video again unless he's dancing with Fred Astaire in a new Dirt Devil commercial.

LOL

[dread78645]

radical no-prong strike using a broad spatula

Works for me.

First things first: It's not strictly necessary for a new regime in Iraq to be better than its predecessor, only different.

Sodamn Insane knows this. Only the panty-waists in the State Dept. and the NYT are wringing hands over it.

[linn37]

just an odd tidbit but Paul Harvey reported this week that army trucks that were painted woodland greens are now coming out desert tan.

[ken5050]

Would Bush chose 9/ll as the date to initiate the attack....?

[Dog Gone]

I don't think it will be this month, but he's got just about everything else right.

[TomT in NJ]

I'll be going to Turkey on August 8th for a two week vacation. I guess I'll be seeing our fighter and bomber jets flying overheard on their way to Iraq. Hopefully, the Turks will let me out of Turkey given that my parents are former Turkish citizens.

[Tunehead54]

Here's the Guardian article reviewed at FR: Britons left in jail amid fears that Saudi Arabia could fall to al-Qaeda

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Elfman - here's a different take on the "situation".
BTW I keep my crayons in a box - where do you keep yours? (;-)

[aculeus]

Bump.

[Britton J Wingfield]

August 9th, Jerry Garcia finally had the good sense to shuffle off this mortal coil. The 9th is now celebrated as 'Bury Garcia' day :)

[Mark de New Brighton]

The New York Times and The Washington Post have spent the last few weeks running their hugely entertaining Leak Of The Day features, each with a brand-new top-secret plan revealing how the Pentagon intends to invade Iraq from bases in Jordan/Qatar/Diego Garcia/Sarnia with a three-pronged strike/two-pronged strike/radical no-prong strike using a broad spatula approach with plans for post-war reconstruction (the prong is ended but the military lingers on).

There is more funny stuff going on in this paragraph than just about anything I've ever read. I'd especially love to see the invasion start in Sarnia, as long as there's no collateral damage to Port Huron. Steyn rocks! Thanks for keeping him visible, Pokey!

[Bobby777]

"Islamic extremists are threatening to take control of Saudi Arabia's corrupt and autocratic regime, fuelling fears in Washington that the United States might lose its most powerful Muslim ally in the war against Islamic terrorism.

"Despite brutal suppression of any public dissent, anti-government demonstrations have swept the kingdom in recent months to protest the pro-American stance of Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler."

The way to find out what this story really means is to hold it up to the mirror and read it backwards. First, and most obviously, Saudi Arabia is not America's "most powerful Muslim ally in the war against Islamic terrorism," but the principal underwriter and fomenter of Islamic terrorism. Second, Crown Prince Abdullah is not "pro-American," but, compared to the ailing King Fahd, noticeably antipathetic and unco-operative. Third, anti-government demonstrations "sweeping" the kingdom? C'mon then: Name one. Where and when?

thanks to Steyn for saying this ...

[dirtboy]

I said a couple of months back that the old has-bin was pushing up daisycutter bits

Beer. All over keyboard.

[foreshadowed at waco]

I heard either on the radio--think it was Bachelor and Alexander--or on Brit Hume's show on FNC-- that GW had promised Congress not to move on Iraq until after the election--the Demoncrats apparently thought that it wouldn't be fair to interrupt the negative flow of anti-Republican rhetoric with news about Iraq just prior to the election in November.

[Fred Mertz]

Steyn is wrong on this August event.

[lawgirl]

OMG ROFLMAO What a great article.

[gcruse]

 
What sort of August are we in for this year?

Memories of old...

"What kind of a day was it?  A day like
 all days, filled with those events that
 alter and illuminate our times.  And
 you were there!"

    ---the prologue to every episode
        of  "You Are There," a documentary
        reenactment series narrated by
        Walter Cronkite in the fifties.