In If-Only-Our-President-Heeded-His-Daddy News
There's a memo that Bush Sr. took part in the creation of back in 1991 about the dangers of removing Saddam from Iraq. The page at Snopes is: GW Bush on Saddam, circa 1991.
And the pertinent excerpt from the memo:

In his memoirs, A World Transformed, written more than five years ago, George Bush, Sr. wrote the following to explain why he didn't go after Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War:

"Trying to eliminate Saddam .. would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible ... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq ...there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."


Which means that ol' Shrubbie went where his own dad knew far better than to tread. And now the US is entrenched in an occupation of a foreign nation that has no end in sight, just a continuing stream of body bags sending home American GI's.

Nice work, ShrubCo!

In Tangental News
A US company has created a new kind of gun called the Cornershot Gun that is actually hinged in the middle with a pistol up front and a camera. The gun barrel can be aimed from around a corner where the soldier is safe from return fire.

The Israeli Army is currently interested in it.

And yes, there is a picture of it in the link.

In Massive Pixel Destruction News
I've got a new game I must have. I saw the ads for it last night and it is an absolute no question, I'm gonna go and buy this game as soon as I can find it for sale. Its called Roadkill and it looks like just great fun. The ads call it a cross between Twisted Metal (a great action game with terrible graphics) and Grand Theft Auto (which ranks as one of my all time favorite games). Bring it on!

Site Update News
I'm just little Mr. Filled with News today, aren't I? Anyway, this is just a little memo about a minor change. I've moved most of the links off onto the Links Page and have also just moved the Blog Roll and Blog Linker as it appears that one or the other was responsible for making the page load hang forever and ever. Sorry about that!