Posted Friday 11 April 2003

The Wrongest Man in the World - So Long, Saddam

Marines sweep title. Scoreboard Marines 150,000, Iraq 200. Recently Saddam Hussein forgot to Beware the Ides of March, and ... Whoops! At first, I was thinking ...

It was an anxious, tense feeling, reminding me of a day in October of 1962, standing on the lawn of Midwestern University, looking up into the huge trees before the vast Admin Building. Listening to the radio, hearing how our navy was moving into position to block the Soviet ships approaching Cuba.

War hovered; it was scary. It was a fall day. The sky was grey, the branches of the trees were mostly bare, and a light, breeze spun across the lawn and through the trees. It was very quiet, except for the tinny sound of the radio.

Then, I went to lunch. It was fried chicken, at some place across the street. Why do we remember these things?

No matter. Saddam has fallen. And the current feeling is well expressed in this swell little ditty 'Bomb Iraq', by Vince Vance and the Valiants. See and here it is now, hear, hear! -- Bomb Iraq Music Video

Sounds good to me.