Arc v' February 25, 2003

The United States fired a warning shot Tuesday across the bows of France, the leading critic of its Iraq policy, saying it would view any French veto of a new U.N. resolution authorizing force as "very unfriendly." [Tom Heneghan and Nadim Ladki, "US Warns France in Struggle Over Iraq", Reuters, Feb 25 2003]

Nice. A major first world country that has actually seen full scale occupation and war up close in the last 60 years actually doesn't want to go to war, so now we're threatening them?

There's more:

Senior U.S. officials have been quietly dispatched in recent days to the capitals of key Security Council countries where they are warning leaders to vote with the United States on Iraq or risk "paying a heavy price."

For some of the countries, such as Angola, Guinea and Cameroon - poor African nations whose concerns drew little attention before they landed seats on the council - there is the possibility that supporting Washington's drive for a new U.N. resolution authorizing war may reap benefits down the line.[Dafna Linzer, "U.S. officials using back channels to push for U.N. votes", Associated Press 24 Feb 2003 (viewed 25 Feb 2003)]

"Hey kids, we've got money and power, wanna help us fight?"

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Some small updates have been applied to Industrie Toulouse:

1. The return of RSS 1.0, with encoded content. This is now the default RSS link in the header.
2. Skunkweb is finally being used after Chris set this up for me when I moved camps. It's mostly being used to give me easier editing capabilities over links and such, and it will probably mark the return of the random EUCCI title/link from the old euc.cx site.

As a result of these changes, some of the link categories are gone. The old "blogroll" was rolled into the Links area. I'm trying to eradicate the use of the word blog from my life (my favorite feature of Movable Type 2.6 is their changing of all occurances of "Blog" with "Weblog"). The Zope links and their are gone, but are likely to be folded into the links section in the very near future.