(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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[Watch this space for: Pentagon and Petroleum, The Media is only as Liberal as the Corporations Who Own Them, Wash Down With, and Recalcify]
WARBLOGGER WATCH
Sunday, September 15, 2002
Some days away from my computer, I have finally been put wise to the existence of the so-called "Shropshire Challenge," to which $10 has been pledged in my very name. Touching, that, though challenge sponsor Dr. Weevil seems not to share our general presumption against war, preferring instead the colossal failure of advanced humanity and attendant mass death. Those disagreeing with him - particularly those feeling that persons propagandizing on behalf of unelected president Bush's threatened war against the Iraqi people ("collectively smeared as 'Saddam Hussein'," as some obscure journalist said recently) should themselves participate in the slaughter - must now report to Baghdad for deployment as human shields. Given America's history of disregard for its citizens in like matters, I somehow don't think human shields would prove very effective in dissuading Rumsfeld et al. Better would be a refusal to allow a simpering moron to insinuate his country into a war - though I'll gladly relieve the pedant of his tenner. Provided, of course, a warbloging opposite number meets me on the streets of Baghdad to verify my presence. I understand there's a certain someone "saving [himself] for the Iraqi dustup, whatever form it takes" [emphasis added] who fits the bill. posted by Anonymous4:27 PM
The Watchers
WBW: Keeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.