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To: FaultLine who wrote (84976)	3/22/2003 4:25:21 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

I can't tell you how impressed I am with the "Washington Post" war coverage. They will end up with the War PulItzer, not the NYT. They have ten reporters "imbedded" with the troops and they have it all organized in a section called "in the field." The reports are all outstanding. washingtonpost.com 'We Want to Be Up There' By Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, March 21, 2003; 4:24 PM OVER THE KUWAITI-IRAQI BORDER - The logistics "tail" of the U.S. invasion force in Iraq-long columns of U.S. Army trucks, fuel tankers and Humvees-crossed the desert frontier today in clouds of dust to deliver supplies to combat forces miles ahead of them. Reporters on a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying over a seven-mile stretch of the central border area saw five openings cut through the wire fences and sand berm that had separated Iraq from Kuwait. Additional openings had been cut in other areas, but the helicopter did not approach those because of outgoing U.S. artillery fire in the vicinity. On the Kuwaiti side, the lines of tan U.S. military vehicles stretched back as far as the eye could see: massive five-ton trucks pulling trailers loaded with supplies; fuel trucks; ambulances; Humvees with trailers behind them. From the air, it looked like it could be a terrible traffic jam. But in fact, the vehicles were moving at about 30 miles an hour, according to the helicopter pilot, Chief Warrant Officer 3 James Scala, 37, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., who was flying military officers and journalists over the area. The long plumes of dust that the vehicles kicked up thickened the general haze that had turned the sun into a wan disk. The vehicles belonged to the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, which punched into Iraq late Thursday. They rolled smoothly in single file over the border Friday without stopping, and there was no sign of the Iraqi military or local inhabitants in the isolated region of desert dotted with scrub. REST AT:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6522-2003Mar21.html

To: FaultLine who wrote (84976)	3/22/2003 5:13:45 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Karen has no special knowledge, but one of Nadine's endless stream of warbloggers does? From Nadine's site, yourish.com : I'm a web developer who used to be a desktop publisher who used to be a typesetter who also used to freelance copy edit, proofread, edit, and write. I used to call myself a one-woman publishing company. Now I call myself Meryl Yourish, the owner/operator of yourish.com. I'm from New Jersey, and that fact doesn't make me blush. Never did. I like New Jersey. But it's getting too crowded. I made frequent trips south to visit a friend in the Richmond area, and moved there in the summer of 2002. It's much less crowded, but it needs more kosher butcher shops and Italian bakeries. My views used to be liberal. I seem to be turning center/left, some say center/right. I am intolerant of intolerance, for the most part—if that isn't a contradication in terms. Sometimes I find myself being intolerant of things I should be tolerant of. I am only human; I try to stop doing it when I recognize it. (It's that unexamined life thing. See the first blog.) One thing I will never change: I am an avowed, unabashed, unashamed supporter of Israel and Zionism (the establishment and maintenance of a Jewish state) and an uncompromising foe of anti-Semitism. If you hate Israel and Jews, you're going to have an unpleasant time on my weblog. Buh-bye.