"So, when do you think the war will start?" an Iranian friend asked in an email message two weeks ago.
"Probably around the 20th," I responded.
"That's not going to happen!" he quickly wrote back. "First, it's during the full moon, and second, it's Now Ruz! The US wouldn't be that crass, would they?"
Last night, we got the answer to that question.
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Skittish CNN news teams, fearful of the US bombs that their anchors are celebrating from the safety of Atlanta's news studios, have left stationary cameras with microphones on rooftops throughout Baghdad before departing for safer ground.
These recording devices are picking up the sounds of Baghdad's birds, twittering and singing in the new year, the first day of Spring, the first day of another war, the dawn of our frightening new world order, live, in real time from the Cradle of Civilization, now the grave of the United Nations.
ElectronicIraq.net
