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PERHAPS THE IRAQI MUSEUM WAS SACKED BY UN INSPECTORS:

Evidently some of the diplomatic corps in Manhattan would boost TV’s from a smashed storefront window given the opportunity. From TIME magazine:

“Hunger pains can apparently turn even the most upstanding diplomat into a looter. At noon on Friday, food workers at the U.N. headquarters walked off their jobs, calling a wildcat strike. The result: none of the U.N.’s five restaurants and bars was staffed. The walkout left thousands of U.N. employees scrounging for lunch — eventually, the masses stripped the cafeterias of everything, including the silverware. “

ONE OF SADDAM’S MOBILE BIOWEAPONS LABS FOUND:

Bill Gertz has the story here. Remember how Tom Spencer and Atrios and all the liberal bloggers were repeating how there was no evidence tying Saddam to al Qaida or proof of WMD programs ? Well, Tom has been mighty quiet on that topic lately on his blog since the Telegraph broke the story on the Iraqi documents and after having accused everyone to the right of George McGovern of ” lying ” about Iraq he might have found the time to say a few words. Well, now the WMD issue will go down a similar liberal memory hole.

ANOTHER CASE FOR REGIME CHANGE

Nat Hentoff on Robert Mugabe’s descent into madness and unchecked tyranny.

And where is the moral voice of Bishop Desmond Tutu ? Nelson Mandela, overly preoccupied with anti-semitic conspiracy theories and cheering brutal dictators like Gaddafi and Saddam, is also silent. Jacques Chirac ? No, the French president loves Mugabe like he once loved Saddam’s oilfields. Randall Robinson of TransAfrica ? Paul Krugman ? Ted Kennedy ? Bill Clinton ? Jesse Jackson ?Where are the calls for UN inspectors to be sent to Zimbabwe to prevent an artificial famine and democide ?

Perhaps if we can tie Mugabe to Enron or Halliburton……

A LITTLE BIT OF RIGHT-WING SARCASM:

Ann Coulter on the Iraqi Museum, Liberals and the French:

“At least we finally got liberals on the record against looting. It seems the looting in Iraq compared unfavorably with the “rebellion” in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict. When “rebels” in Los Angeles began looting, liberals said it was a sign of frustration – they were poor and hungry. As someone noted at the time, apparently they were thirsty as well, since they hit a lot of liquor stores. Meanwhile, the Iraqis were pretty careful about targeting the precise source of their oppression. Their looting concentrated on Saddam’s palace, official government buildings – and the French cultural center.

However many precious pots were stolen, it has to be said: The Iraqi people behaved considerably better than the French did after Americans liberated Paris. Thousands of Frenchmen were killed by other Frenchmen on allegations of collaboration with the Nazis. Subsequent scholarship has shown that charges of “collaboration” were often nothing more than a settling of personal grudges and family feuds. This was made simple by the fact that so many Frenchmen really did collaborate with the Nazis. The French didn’t seem to resent the Nazi occupation very much. Nazi occupation is their default position. They began squirming only after Americans came in and imposed democracy on them. “

A VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH AND DEMOCRACY

The odious, incumbent protection law misnamed ” Campaign Finance Reform ” is struck down

Good riddance. While we are at it roll back most of the inane and counterproductive post-Watergate reforms as well and let candidates raise however much they like from whomever they like subject only to full public disclosure and American citizenship of the donors. With the current system, only a billionaire is free to break with particular special interests, PACs and rain-makers who totally dominate the Democratic and Republican parties. McCain-Feingold was an authoritarian, anti-democratic law that prohibited the unwashed masses from contributing to the public debate during election times -i.e. the time it matters most. It was an attempt to reserve national politics as the province of the self-appointed elite and shut the rest of us up under the guise of populist rhetoric about ” cleaning up the system ” ( a ” system ” created by previous reform laws that enshrined lawyer-lobbyists as the gatekeepers to electoral competitiveness – in the old days, a candidate had so few financial backers that we at least knew who was buying him and if he stayed bought after the election)