Six years in the peaceable kingdom

Blogging is kinda like this.

Today marks the sixth year of my blogging "career."

In that time I’ve written 9,865 posts (4009 of them containing some variation of the word ’suck’). I have been through three computers (but I have a mac now, so shut  up), two desk chairs, two jobs, two iPods,  two blogs, I’ve lost a dog but gained two more, I lost my dad, and saw my daughter pass through high school and sent her off to college. I have gone from nobody to "somewhat popular blogger" to "Demonic Conservative Ridicule Machine" with brief stops along the way as "Hey… you’re that guy. On the internet. With the dogs."

Yeah. That’s me.

I guess there are worse ways to spend six years.

We have been through The Virgin Ben, the 101st Fighting Keyboarders, America’s Worst Mother™, Jenna and Not-Jenna, Five Brother Blogging, Gun Counter Gomer, and Little Miss No Self Awareness herself: K-Lo. Good times. Good times.

So what was happening six years ago today?

This:

Q Sir, the chief weapons inspector is going to be briefing the U.N. Security Council today, and there have already been some reports that, in his talks with the Iraqis, that they’re limiting access to certain sites. Are those reports true? And do you think they’re trying to —

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I haven’t gotten a report from what he intends to say. But let me give you just some general observations. First of all, there are no negotiations to be held with Iraq. They have nothing to negotiate. They’re the people who said that they would not have weapons of mass destruction. The negotiations are over. It is up to the U.N. Security Council to lay out resolutions that confirms what Iraq has already agreed to, see.

Secondly, I don’t trust Iraq, and neither should the free world. For 11 years, they have deceived the world. They have said, we’ll conform to resolutions. They’ve never conformed to resolutions. They’ve never conformed to the agreement that they laid out 11 years ago. Sixteen times they’ve defied Security resolutions.

And so, they — the burden of proof is — must be place squarely on their shoulders. But there’s no negotiations about whether or not they’ve been telling the truth or not.

Let’s see here — Mark.

Q Mr. President, are you going to send Congress your proposed resolution today? And are you asking for a blank check, sir?

THE PRESIDENT: I am sending suggested language for a resolution. I want — I’ve asked for Congress’ support to enable the administration to keep the peace. And we look forward to a good, constructive debate in Congress. I appreciate the fact that the leadership recognizes we’ve got to move before the elections. I appreciate the strong support we’re getting from both Republicans and Democrats, and look forward to working with them.

Q Mr. President, how important is it that that resolution give you an authorization of the use of force?

THE PRESIDENT: That will be part of the resolution, the authorization to use force. If you want to keep the peace, you’ve got to have the authorization to use force. But it’s — this will be — this is a chance for Congress to indicate support. It’s a chance for Congress to say, we support the administration’s ability to keep the peace. That’s what this is all about.

Anyone know how that turned out? I’ve been blogging and haven’t had time to check.

One last thing: Bush sucks.

Make that 4010.