Bon Voyage!
Reuters amuses with American women launch peace mission to Baghdad:

A dozen American women dressed in pink boarded airplanes en route to Baghdad on Thursday in a peace mission named "Code Pink" and meant to challenge the logic of waging war on Iraq.

The delegates would visit an Iraqi children's hospital, protest at an oil refinery and meet with U.N. weapons inspectors during their visit ending Feb. 8, said group spokeswoman Medea Benjamin, a 50-year-old mother of two.
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Benjamin, founding director of the peace group Global Exchange, said the Sept. 11 al Qaeda attacks on the United States -- and the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan that followed them -- made many women decry needless losses of life and ask: "Are we going to let these crazy men run our planet?"

Er, why are the U.N. weapons inspectors wasting their time on these dipsticks? They may be concealing weapons of mass destruction about their persons, but they aren't Iraqis, nominally at least. As for Medea (aptly named), she's stretching her 15 minutes. Her last gig was disrupting Don Rumsfeld's testimony at a congressional hearing.

The 12 delegates -- who include a lawyer, a farmer, an artist, a writer, an environmentalist and an Episcopal minister -- plan to wear pink T-shirts and berets and carry banners in Arabic reading: "Women for Peace."

They turned out for the last Washington march too. It went something like this:



I always wonder about these "peace visitors" to Iraq. Since Saddam has enough good taste not to meet with them personally, I feel for the poor sap whose job it it is to "welcome the wingnuts". After a few delegations you'd want to send them to one of Uday's prisons and break out the thumbscrews.

Ah, it's probably left to the Iraqi secret police anyway. They can also make sure there's no truth to the rumor that the peaceniks have been employed by the CIA to place radio beacons at the places they visit. Watch those transistor radios, girls!