CNN is maintaining a page listing all available information about U.S. casualties in the ongoing Iraq war.
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10:19:02 PM 
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Scot Hacker just told me (hey, little head's up next time?):
Join us this evening (March 24) at 7:30 pm PDT for a live webcast featuring J.D. Lasica of the Online Journalism Review and Rusty Foster of Kuro5hin, on the topic of weblogs and journalism.
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6:47:17 PM say what []
. A little late in the game, I find a link to Cronus Connections' A Warmonger Educates a Peacenik. Will Instapundit be linking to this (or has he already)? I wonder.
An excerpt:
Peacenik: Why are we invading Iraq?
Warmonger: For the last time, we are invading Iraq because the world has called on Saddam Hussein to disarm, and he has failed to do so. He must now face the consequences.
Peacenik: So, likewise, if the world called on us to do something, such as find a peaceful solution, we would have an obligation to listen?
Warmonger: By "world", I meant the United Nations.
Peacenik: So, we have an obligation to listen to the United Nations?
Warmonger: By "United Nations" I meant the Security Council.
Peacenik: So, we have an obligation to listen to the Security Council?
Warmonger: I meant the majority of the Security Council.
Peacenik: So, we have an obligation to listen to the majority of the Security Council?
Warmonger: Well... there could be an unreasonable veto.
Peacenik: In which case?
Warmonger: In which case, we have an obligation to ignore the veto.
Peacenik: And if the majority of the Security Council does not support us at all?
Warmonger: Then we have an obligation to ignore the Security Council.
Indeed.
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12:20:54 PM say what []
From the left (and from John Perry Barlow, recently) I keep hearing about how the U.S. and NATO use depleted uranium in their weapons, putting Iraqis (and others) at risk of radiation poisoning or genetic abnormalities.
I also seem to recall scoffing at this or "debunking" of the danger from the right, but I don't remember the details.
Just did a Google search for depleted uranium and it looks like I have some reading to do. Most of the top links seem to warn of the danger of depleted uranium, so I may have to dig deeper for the contrary point of view.
I'd appreciate any input or insight on this if anyone has done an analysis and boiled odwn the meme/countermeme struggle around the idea of depleted uranium.
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