Sorry for the light blogging
Sorry for the light blogging today. Lot on my mind lately, and I didn't have a lot to say that wasn't being said elsewhere. Even though I get a lot of my links from other blogging sites, I usually only post the same links if I either have an as-yet unexpressed point-of-view on the matter, or if the link is so interesting that I think it needs to be seen by everyone. Everyone meaning the three people who read this blog. Including me.
Anywho. Here's a neat account of yesterday's attack on Baghdad, ringside:
How Iraqis will respond when the Iraqi ruler and his sons are finally toppled will be central to the judgments history makes of the war, and perhaps a foretaste came on the fifth or sixth run of one of the F-18's.A missile was fired from low altitude and struck a bulls-eye on the building's southern facade, at about the 10th floor, setting off a fireball leaping into the sky, followed by a plume of thick black smoke.
An Iraqi man of about 30, wearing a track suit and watching from a window on an upper floor of the Sheraton Hotel a mile down the river to the south, leaned out to shout something to two reporters for American publications who had made of their own 12th-floor balcony a grandstand seat.
Thumbs up, grinning, the man punched the air, triumphant.
Only in afterthought, perhaps concerned that he might have been overheard by other Iraqis, or perhaps that he might be identified from reports the Americans would write, did he retract — with a scatological outburst about America, but still with the same broad grin.
Posted by Matt at April 9, 2003 2:07 AM
