It looks as though we (well Bush and his regime anyways) will be at war soon. I was in a car with Michaela somewhere in New Jersey or New York for the beginning of the last one with Poppy Bush. Michaela cried when we heard on the radio about the opening salvos in the air war. She sort of apologized or explained herself by saying that it effected her because it is a big step. I can barely remember the tv reports of the Vietnam war and maybe the body count that was reported every night. That war lasted for 10 years. This is a whole different scenario but the impact in anxiety from the media coverage is the same on this side of the screen, I believe. It is interesting that the Pentagon has made arrangements for "embedded" reporters within US units for this war. I don't think that Michaela had a war on tv for her, other than maybe Grenada and Panama. I wonder what she is thinking and feeling now?

Here is a link to a war weblog. The Seattle Times will be covering the war in a weblog format also. And not that anyone cares, but MSNBC is "gague(ing) the global debate on Iraq" here. Here is a "no war blog" and here is an army family journal with links to more military blogs. The Guardian has a special weblog report on Iraq. It seems that a lot of Americans are reading foreign new on Iraq because, as Paul Krugman wrote, the "(U.S. TV news) seems to be reporting about a different planet than the one covered by foreign media". The folks at Debka say that in their reporting on the mideast, they say that "We Start Where The Media Stop". ...There, I'm sure there are many more links. Read away.