First thing my brother noticed about the president's speech...

[arib]

Georgie looks like shit. He's pale and looks like he's dropped weight, especially in his cheeks.



Since it's now actually called a war. This is all going to be very stream of conciousness, so bear with my lack of coherence.

Yesterday on #c, I quoted Shakespeare rather badly. "If it must be done, 'tis best 'twere done quickly."

The only way public opinion will support this conflict is if it ends within a matter of weeks, possibly months, but not too many of them.

One of my co-workers has a few nephews who've been called up, and her daughter's in the reserves and was set to be demobbed in December, they could still call her into service. The uberboss' son is a mechanic in the Marines, he just finished Basic last summer and is stationed out of NC. As far as I know, he hasn't been called up yet. They're all worried sick, and I don't like watching them agonize as much as they are.

(Dani's watching the footage of Baghdad's streets that's on Fox News right now and he just shouted "Hey! that bus just ran a red light!")

I despise Hussein, he's a tinpot despot with delusions of grandeur on par wth various and sundry WWII era baddies. If anyone needs a fatal case of sudden high-impact lead poisoning, it's him.

I'm worried about how my clients are going to react to this, and what I will or won't have to explain to them. I know two of them won't care, one of them will be able to watch TV news and follow it as best as he can, he'll ask questions if he feels he needs to.

Two of them won't be able to follow TV news, due to various cognitive and/or language barriers, and will most likely get spooked. I don't know what to tell them, if they come to me, it's seat-of-my-pants time.

At least one Callahanian is in the reserves and might get called up.

Part of me is listening to the news and going technogeeky over the ordinance used. I read too much Tom Clancy.

According to the news, the "selected targets" fired on tonight were "leadership targets." With luck, Saddam just caught a cruise missile in the cabeza, and it'll all be over before it's started.

"A finer world is a wonderful thing, but sometimes you've got to fight and bleed and die for it."

-Warren Ellis

harsh sentiment, but I agree with it.

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[bluepapercup]

>With luck, Saddam just caught a cruise missile in the cabeza, and it'll all be over before it's started.

god willing, ari.

[morarachel.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about not knowing what to say to your clients. I teach 1st graders,and I know that they are exposed to TV even more then I am. Therefor I am worried about them being scared. I was in 1st grade during the Gulf War and I reamber I was nervous but totaly unawear of what was going on. I think my students are more savy then I was, and I think I might have to come up with some comferting words.
We are actually on a government alert at my school (as all schools, and more so Yashivahs are) so it is all the more eirrie to have meets with the Rabbis about what to do incase of an intruder. Iyh it will all work out soon.