Through The Mist Darkly

It’s Sunday. It’s Spring. It’s late afternoon in Iraq. The networks are falling all over themselves
to report the fact that they have no facts. Rumors, allegations, speculations, those we’ve got
but not much in the way of hard facts. A pilot was shot down - no he wasn’t. About the only
thing everyone is sure about is that there was another case of “Friendly Fire”. What a strange
term that is. Sort of comforting like sitting around the campfire after a long day at the cottage.
I guess it sounds better than “We F***ed Up”.

Here’s a link to a Blog written by someone who lives in Baghdad.
The last entry (so far) is from Friday and I certainly hope he’s all right. Interesting reading.

For some background on this whole nasty mess, the PBS show Frontline has a chronology here.

Finally, the counter at the top of this page comes from “The Irag Body Count Project” a group
that is attempting to gather information on the civilian cost of this conflict.

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I’m sitting here watching a live CNN feed from a stationary camera in Baghdad. I can’t give you
the URL because you need to be subscribed to Real Networks Premium Service to get it.

It’s 7:30 pm in Iraq and the last call to prayer is being broadcast over loudspeakers. A time of contemplation
and celebration for Muslims but tonight you have to think their minds are on something else other
than the greatness of Allah. “Shock and Awe” is what the American military is calling it, “Death and
Destruction” is a more apt description.

Try and imagine sitting in your comfortable living room knowing that sometime in the next few
hours missles and bombs built by the lowest bidder are going to pay your city a visit. It’s
little comfort to know that the margin of error is slight when they’re coming from hundreds of
miles away.

This thing gets more surreal every day. What I’m watching and listening to is as real-time as
the Internet can provide and, when the ordinance starts dropping, there won’t be any glitzy
graphic and stirring music announcing “Breaking News”. I’ll know it’s started again about 20
seconds after the citizens of Baghdad. I’m safe - they are not. May Allah be with them.

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I understand the weather forecast in Iraq is cloudy with scattered periods of cruise missles.
A bad joke but there you go. Baby Bush finally has his war on and now we get to watch the
body count go up. I’ve made it abundantly clear that I think this is a bad idea but all we can
do now is hope that they get it over quickly and the human cost isn’t too high

Spent the last two days in Montreal on business. Hectic days, quick meals and no chance
to see the sites. Too bad because I think Montreal is one of the great spots to visit. The downtown
is so vibrant and alive, no matter how bad the weather. Sunny but cool for both days. I’m going
back in April over the Easter weekend (work again) and hopefully I can take the gang that’s going
with me out to visit a few spots.

Look for an update on the flight page.

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