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Friday's Times carried a front-page picture of a skull, with a group of Iraqis gathered around it. The skull was of a political prisoner from Saddam Hussein's regime, and the grieving Iraqis were relatives who had exhumed it from a graveyard filled with other victims of Saddam's torture. Just under the picture was an article about President Bush vowing that weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq, as he promised. As far as I'm concerned, we do not need to find any weapons of mass destruction to justify this war. That skull, and the thousands more that will...

<p>AS the U.S. Army and Marines race each other to Baghdad - traditional service rivalry at its best - American battlefield innovations have come so fast it's hard to keep up with them. Theory failed, but ferocity saved the day.</p>

'Time to stop being Mr Nice Guy' By Oliver Poole with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, Central Iraq (Filed: 25/03/2003) 'I lost a scout this morning to sniper fire and my first sergeant was hit by a mortar round yesterday. That means I am taking it a little bit personally. How am I meant to protect my men when the generals are denying me the ability to bomb enemy positions?". On the outskirts of the central Iraqi town of Samawah, Capt David Waldron and his company of tanks are locked in a defensive formation. His men are under intermittent attack...

CENTRAL IRAQ--"I lost a scout this morning to sniper fire and my first sergeant was hit by a mortar yesterday. That means I am taking it a little bit personally. How am I meant to protect my men when the generals are denying me the ability to bomb enemy positions?" On the outskirts of the Iraqi town of Samawah, U.S. Army Capt. David Waldron and his company of tanks are locked in a defensive formation. His men are under intermittent attack. They are also increasingly angry. From Basra to Karbala, south of Baghdad, allied troops are under attack from soldiers...

Live report from Karl Penhaul after Apache choppers attacked Republican Guards near Karbala (sp?). This is north of Najaf and WSW 70mi of Baghdad. He reports that our Apaches were shot up pretty bad. The IRG put up a "wall" of AAA. After returning to base, Apaches were "strewn around" instead of being parked neatly. He wouldn't confirm that all our Apaches made it back.

This is a laugh riot - a flash app about what time it is...

The first line of tanks made its way past soon after dawn, helmeted figures poking out of turrets giving the thumbs-up to watching soldiers as the massed might of the American army began its slow move to the border. The winds had come again, but there was none of the despondency that accompanied the sandstorms last week, with people marooned in their tents to escape the howling wind. Then talk was of wives, girlfriends and family back home. Now conversation focused only on the task ahead. Tents were packed into kit bags. Fires were lit across the plain as the...

Time for the talk to end SO it begins. After months of seemingly endless diplomatic double-talk, the issue comes down to this: Iraq must be disarmed. And no one will do it except a coalition of the willing, led by the US, but involving Australia, Britain, Poland, Spain and a raft of other nations. Already Australian public opinion seems to be shifting towards the Government's compelling case that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction pose a profound threat to regional and global security. People wanted the United Nations to handle the matter, and were naturally confused about all the divisions. But...

THE ammunition arrived today - 300 tonnes of shells, mortar bombs, grenades, machine gun rounds and bullets for the rifles. The soldiers paused about their daily business to watch the first column of 10 trucks trundling towards the desert kicking up clouds of dust in their wake. It was a distraction from their routines and another sign, if any more were needed, that the time for waiting around in the Kuwaiti desert is drawing to an end. In this barren patch of sand near Kuwait’s northern border with Iraq, where Britain’s 1st Armoured Division has made its temporary home, any...

Australia will go to war with Iraq within days if the United Nations process has broken down. Prime Minister John Howard gave this strong signal yesterday as he said the issue was coming to a head. "If the UN was removed from the equation by the resolution not being put, then obviously the UN process has ended and we would, as a Cabinet, then meet and take a final decision," he said. The next meeting of Cabinet is scheduled for Wednesday but ministers on the National Security Committee could come to Canberra for a decision on going to war. Last...

Walk away, Mr. President. Walk away from the U.N. Security Council. It will not authorize the coming war. You can stand on your head and it won't change the outcome. You can convert to Islam in a Parisian mosque and it won't prevent a French veto. The French are bent not just on opposing your policy but on destroying it -- and the coalition you built around it. When they send their foreign minister to tour the three African countries on the Security Council in order to turn them against the United States, you know that this is a country...

Now is no time to go wobbly. LET'S SEE WHERE WE STAND. Over the past six months, while the United Nations has been debating the definition of words like "immediate" and "unconditional," the United States has deployed hundreds of thousands of troops around Iraq. It has done so smoothly, and without the terrorist counterattack that many feared. The French effort to create a united European foreign policy opposed to U.S. policy has failed. French behavior has illustrated the divide between new and old Europe more clearly than anything Donald Rumsfeld could say. Central and Eastern Europeans now know who their...

Increasing Impatience 2003-03-14 The Oklahoman NEW POLLING suggests a growing number of Americans think the United Nations is mismanaging the Iraq crisis. According to a survey conducted by the New York Times and CBS News, 58 percent believe the U.N. is bungling the Iraq situation -- up 10 points from a month ago -- and 55 percent would support U.S.-led military operations against Saddam Hussein's regime even without the blessing of the Security Council. The result isn't surprising. Since President Bush brought the issue before the U.N. last fall Americans have witnessed serial Iraqi lies, deceptions and non-compliance -- resulting...

By show of hands: Who here thinks that our soldiers should be sleeping in Saddam's palaces by tomorrow night? Forget the United Nations. Screw the French, Germans, and Belgians. Quietly explain the facts of life to Russia and China. Thank our allies. And get this thing started. We don't need no stinkin' vote. The French have made it very clear that they will not vote for (and may well veto) anything which could be remotely interpreted as permitting war in Iraq. Some agree with us, some agree with France. But the bottom line is: we're going in, no matter what...

Hello, are we as a nation waiting for another squadron of hijacked jumbo jets to fly into another American city skyline before we do anything to protect ourselves? After that, do we need the hijackers to paint the Iraqi flag on the side of the jets before we believe Iraq is complicit in its support of terrorism? After reading the reviews on President Bush’s magnificent press conference, the answer from the lib media would unfortunately have to be, yes. President Bush clearly showed he means business. He informed the world and our “allies” we would go in without them if...

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