*sigh*

[logomancer]

So this is it. The US is attacking Iraq. It's a sad day. I just came back from the "town meeting" that Steger and the gang set up in the coliseum. They were talking about the need for police presences at all public gatherings, 24-hour security guards in all free-access buildings, and how they would help international students. It seemed almost surreal. Like Tech would be a prime terrorist target.

I see this war as a sign that the man in the White House no longer respects the opinions of the public or the world. Many civilians will die, our economy will be wrecked, and our name thorughout the world will be tarnished because one man thought we should have a war.

I feel ashamed for my country.

Comments

[robertliguori.livejournal.com]

http://biz.yahoo.com/cbsm-top/030320/b6b933f229c87542490f2dbcb3826d09_1.html
"Start of ground war boosts stocks"

We've got a president with questionable intelligence getting his military groove on, but at least we'll be able to afford it.

[vt-andros.livejournal.com]

At last check, the Dow Jones Industrials were up 10 points, or 0.1 percent, to 8,275. The Nasdaq Composite Index was better by 4 points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,401 and the S&P 500 was up 1 points, or 0.1 percent, to 875.

Whee, a whole 10 points. Excuse me while I call my broker.

[tigerofthewind.livejournal.com]

The man in the white house had a 2 to 1 on going to war...get informed.

[vt-andros.livejournal.com]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030317.asp (http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030317.asp)

If you take the general poll, you'd be right in saying that. But that number drops to 54% when the UN rejects the new US resolution (which it did). Given that the polls have a 3% margin of error, that's a pretty slim majority. Plus, I'm willing to wager that some of this slim majority is ignorant of the situation.

But any survey with only 1000 people involved can hardly be representative of the entire US population.

terrorist target

[uilos.livejournal.com]

(insert huge doses of irony and sarcasm here)
Well...In Theory, the Radford Arsenal (they make rocket explosives and propellant) goes into blackout conditions in the event of air raids or some such. Guess which bright, lights-on-all-night-so-the-chickies-won't-get-raped, illuminated target is nearest? That's right, the Drillfield and/or the Stadium. Home sweet whatever.

Re: terrorist target

[yubbie.livejournal.com]

It's not true anymore, but during WW2 they specifically laid out the lights on campus to match the lighting pattern of the arsenal. Given navigation of the time, the german bomber crew would know they were "about" at the radford arsenal, and would look down, and lo! A target that matches their "Looks like this at night" card...

People who live in blacksburg at the time didn't catch on for a while why whenever there was a blackout drill every light on campus came on. And why there were lamp poles in the middle of fields no where near the sidewalks...

Of course, now, with a GPS, it's not as useful - even a half blind terrorist in a cessna can get within 300ft of the arsenal with his windows all blacked out.