Very cool project, info from MattS originally:

BRIDGE TO BAGHDAD

You are invited to join BRIDGE TO BAGHDAD: A Youth Dialogue.

This Saturday, March 1, from 11:30am to 2pm, DCTV will be hosting a live, satellite conversation between students in Iraq and students in America to include the voice of a younger generation in the current public discourse.

The live conversation will feature a panel of American students representing diverse ethnicities, religions, and political viewpoints; a panel of students in
Baghdad; and a live studio audience that may participate or simply listen. The session will be turned into a program for television.

The program is free and open. Please reserve by writing to justin@dctvny.org or calling 212-925-3429 x243. You must arrive by 11:15am on Saturday to ensure your reservation.

The program will take place at the Cyberstudio at DCTV at 87 Lafayette Street, between Walker and White Streets, near the A, C, E, N, R, Q, W, 6 trains to Canal Street.

More info here.

Busy with work, so I’ll let Atrios explain it for me: why I don’t link to Josh Marshall’s web site anymore. Arguing that it will diminish our standing to not bomb Iraq, even if it’s a bad idea, is outrageous, stupid, and immoral.

A bipartisan group of former United States Senators today announced its opposition to the Bush Administration’s plans to invade Iraq.

No War Blog: Ari gets laughed out of the room — C-SPAN has the video. You can hear a reporter say “Laughed off the stage” after Ari leaves.

Ari Fleischer is laughed off the stage by reporters when he says, “You’re saying that the leaders of other nations are buyable. And that is not an acceptable proposition.”

Kieran Healy has a Public Service Announcement that everyone should read.

U.S. Warns France in Struggle Over Iraq

The United States fired a warning shot Tuesday across the bows of France, the leading critic of its Iraq policy, saying it would view any French veto of a new U.N. resolution authorizing force as “very unfriendly.”

A sherpa plans to create the world’s highest internet cafe on Mt. Everest.

What an idiot. There is no evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11, but here is Peter Vallone, Jr. on why he won’t support and anti-war resolution in the NYC Council, from Newsday:

Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) said the council may have been reluctant to take action on the original resolution because of the attack on the World Trade Center.

“No one felt a greater loss than New York City,” he said. "No one needs retribution more than New York City.

“I will not support any anti-war resolution, no matter what the wording, and neither will the large majority of my constituents,” Vallone said.

Daily Kos has a great summary of the Carnegie Endowment’s critique of Kenneth Pollack’s op-ed piece in the Times on why we have to invade Iraq. They describe it as “a house of cards”.