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Weird day

Some days things happen so weird that you wonder if this is real, or if you are a seven-year-old girl and you are in Wonderland. Today was one of those days. First of all Turkey does not accept US troops on its soil by a margin of three votes, and that turns into a refusal, even though the number who did not want US troops was also a minority. Then the Turkish stock market plummets because of the vote. It seems Turks don't want their investments to do well. Further, the Turkish vote seems eerily like the US Presidential election of 2000. Already the US is trying to get the Turks to vote again, as though they are trying to get the vote to go their way by repeating it over and over again, sort of like recounting the votes in 2000, without the pregnant chads.

Then the voluntary human shields who come to Iraq find that it is too dangerous for them. Whaaa?? Further, they found out that they just can't be human shields anywhere. They have to be human shields wherever Saddam says they can be human shields. They can't be shields at hospitals, for instance; only at military targets. So many are leaving in disgust. I don't think the idea of human shields was a good one, anyway. There are better ways of opposing the war; for example, lying naked on the ground spelling "No War".