AP Poll Finds Majority Back War in Iraq.

No war should be pursued merely because it is popular, but in light of the current political debate in America it is important to note that Americans support President Bush's policies in Iraq by a 2 to 1 margin. 

Democrats can continue to insist that the American people are wrong, but there does not seem to be much of a political future in arguing that position.  We may not be as enlightened as are they, but we do get to pick our own leaders.

Washington Post on Radio: “The program, its templates and other elements work smoothly, and you can go from downloading the program to publishing your thoughts on the Web during a coffee break.” Thanks!

New feature: Mail-From-Aggregator. “Some people like to read the news that the aggregator gathers in email. This can be useful if you travel a lot, or want to share news with a group of people who may not use Radio.”

Researchers Outline Microsoft's Top 10 Challenges For 2004 (TechWeb). TechWeb – Even giants have problems–and gigantic software maker Microsoft has at least 10 of them.

Bush officials tell holiday stories, including Karl Rove reading Santa's New Reindeer. Requres Real (video).

Editorial.

Wired: “If we're still in the race in a few months, I think you'll see a tremendous amount of development.”

Wouldn't it be great if Dean and Clark went after Viacom, ClearChannel and Time-Warner, instead of the tiny companies that make blogging and social networking tools.

I find myself hoping they get their asses kicked, hard. I don't expect much of Bush, but I doubt seriously that he would undermine the mostly American software industry by competing with it with free software. Makes the Dems' pitch about exporting American high-tech jobs to India fairly hollow (NH is a high-tech state, so it has been an issue).

One of the reasons American programmers aren't competing here (in America) is that users expect to get software for free, and in that environment little new stuff gets created, and we have to keep creating to justify the greater amount of money we make (over Indians). But if all we make are commodities, then Indians working for low pay beat Americans working for free. (People who work for free have no incentive to please users, or even create usable software.)

How sad to see two leading Democrats fall for, even feed the lie that they can create user-oriented software for free. Shame on both Dean and Clark. They went after the little guy. Who wants a president who does that. Not me. Still looking for someone worth supporting.

Latest Theory on Iraqi WMDs. British officials are circulating a story that Saddam Hussein may have been hoodwinked into believing that Iraq really did possess weapons of mass destruction.

The theory, which is doing the rounds in the upper reaches of Whitehall, is the result of an attempt to find what one official source called a “logical reason” why no chemical and biological weapons had been found in Iraq.

According to the theory, Saddam and his senior advisers and commanders were told by lower-ranking Iraqi officers that his forces were equipped with usable chemical and biological weapons.

The officers did not want to tell their superiors that the weapons were either destroyed or no longer usable.

NY Times: “The federal government said this evening that the first suspected case of so-called mad cow disease had been discovered in the United States.”