State Department Warnings and the Joel Silver of War

Over at TomDispatch, a sensational advisory to Americans abroad. However, the current version of the State Department’s warning has been toned down from Sunday’s.

Also, how the War may start, and an introduction to Howard Ullman, who plans to deliver “shock and awe” onto Iraq. It’ll win the war, but like Galadriel, we would be beautiful and terrible, and the world will love us and despair. Welcome to the spectacle, baby.

Update: But then, as pointed out elsewhere, the signal to noise, or maybe even the fear to paranoia level in the feed from Official Washington is lousy. And anything said now should be presumed propaganda until proven otherwise.

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