Andrew Sullivan: THE ME GENERATION'S PROTEST: Julie Burchill does her best Camille Paglia impression today (before Camille went soft on the war). Man, does she nail it:

"I've just heard a snippet of the most disgustingly me-me-me anti-war advert by Susan Sarandon, in which she intones, "Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags, and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know - what did Iraq do to us?" Well, if you mean what did Saddam do to America The Beautiful, not an awful lot - but to millions of his own people, torture and murder for a start. Don't they count?

"Surely this is the most self-obsessed anti-war protest ever. NOT IN MY NAME! That's the giveaway. Who gives a stuff about their wet, white, western names? See how they write them so solemnly in a list on the bottom of the letters they send to the papers. And the ones that add their brats' names are the worst - a grotesque spin on Baby On Board, except they think that this gives them extra humanity points not just on the motorway, but in the whole wide weeping, striving, yearning world. We don't know the precious names of the countless numbers Saddam has killed. We're talking about a people - lots of them parents - subjected to an endless vista of death and torture, a country in which freedom can never be won without help from outside."

Amen, sister. The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

George F. Will: Containment ‘Deadlier Than War’

Last week, Walter Russell Mead of the policy think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, writing in The Washington Post, argued that containment is "deadlier than war," especially for Iraqi children.

The 1991 Gulf War killed between 21,000 and 35,000 Iraqis. Between 1,000 and 5,000 were civilians.

But the United Nations itself estimates that the current U.N. policy of trying to contain Saddam with economic sanctions kills 5,000 Iraqi children under 5 years old — every month. Sixty thousand a year.

Mead says that some estimates are lower.

But, he says: "By any reasonable estimate containment kills about as many people every year as the Gulf War — and almost all the victims of containment are civilians, and two-thirds are children under five."

Saddam ‘Lets Babies Die’

Under the U.N. sanctions, Saddam is allowed to sell enough oil to purchase food and medicine to meet the basic needs if the Iraqi people.

But Saddam uses the money to fuel his war machine, and lets the babies die.

So another 10 years of containment would involve the slaughter of at least another 360,000 Iraqis — 240,000 of them children under five.

Mead says those are the low estimates.

If the United Nations' numbers are right, another decade of containment would kill one million Iraqi civilians, including 600,000 children.

So, as Americans debate the morality of the war against Iraq, remember these numbers — and remember a picture of an Iraqi child, suffering the effects of the current policy of "containment."

‘Time-Traveler’ Busted For Insider Trading

Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!

ZDNet UK: War has toppled sex as the most popular search term among Web users as the conflict in Iraq captures the attention and apparently lowers libidos of online Britons, top Internet service Freeserve says.