it’s just water
Rachel writes it up.
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dizzy’s empty diatribe against the “anti-war left”
Oh dear. Someone’s trying to be clever again.
Now far be it from me to suggest that this article is the biggest load of fucking idiocy Dizzy has ever posted (I know, that would be quite a stretch), but I do think it may be in with a shot.
Poor old Dizzy has decided to attack that […]
highly recommended
This post from Flying Rodent comes with my SuperStarSealOfApproval™.
It’s particularly worrying that so many on the left fell over themselves to grant continents of intellectual charity to the Republicans, trusting them with the lives of 25 million people when they wouldn’t trust the Tories to run a free bar. The Republicans’ ideological lunacy makes the […]
the henry jackson society. not a bunch of radicals, really
Cassilis produces an always interesting review of the bunkum forced through the sphincter of political thinktanks. This week’s review covers those nicely dressed warmongers at the Henry Jackson Society.
HJS revisit that tired old theme of ‘radical Islam want a global caliphate / you can’t negotiate with that / boost the voice of the moderates’ - […]
ungrateful
[Canadian blowhard] Mark Steyn would like to thank the British servicemen fighting in Afghanistan.
Fuck you too. Ass-munch.
iraq
I don’t want to make this an introspective post.
It would be easy to spend the next few paragraphs explaining how I have always opposed the war. I could pat myself on the back for making the right call, and I could link back to countless posts and essays I have written that highlight just […]
iraq: masters of war by mike power
Created by Mike Power.
Other articles/posts of interest…
A blogswarm
March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Bring the Noise! Bring the swarm!
Chicken Yoghurt - A child called ‘It’
Sim-O’s Random Thoughts - Five Years
Bloggerheads - The Iraq War (according to Page 3)
Left of Centrist - Numbers you can’t count on - Five Years too […]
a couple of things
I have just completed today’s blog review, and it’s up at LC.
Also…
Justin has an important post over at Chicken Yoghurt, re. an Iraq anniversary “blogswarm” (related blog here), as “there needs to be a loud volume of voices countering the pro-war propaganda from far too many politicians and corporate media outlets.”
I plan to participate with […]
am i a lib dem’r?
I was never really an Old Labour man. I became politicised during the age of Blair. Although, more than most, I have always been interested and aware of politics and current affairs. I remember a Christmas quiz at school and I was the only one (we were about 14 or 15-years old) who knew that […]
casting the net - revisiting iraq
Today’s blog review highlights the latest dispatch from Michael J. Totten, who has revisited the Iraqi city of Fallujah - the site of one of the biggest battles of the latest Iraq War (Operation Phantom Fury was an infamous siege where US forces used chemical weapons – namely White Phosphorous - on suspected insurgents).
The blog […]
the weakness of the veep
The apparent isolation of Dick Cheney has been reaffirmed by a US intel report that states Iran “halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold” (NYT).
Seems old Penguin-features has finally lost his grip.
More from NYT: -
The new report concludes that if Iran were to end the freeze of […]
the irregular quote of the day
Unity:
I opposed the Iraq War and I opposed it because I looked long and hard at the situation as it was developing, considered the strategic and foreign policy issues, the history of the region, the prevailing social and cultural conditions in the region, the apparent motives of the various parties and range of other rational […]
the irregular quote of the day
From the scribbles of Will Parbury: -
Today the legal advisor to the US secretary of state refuses to say that waterboarding is illegal. Yet 60 years ago America was sentencing Japanese soldiers who used the technique on US soldiers to 15 years for war crimes. Seems grandpa got something right.
Quite what the Americans are hoping […]
the irregular quote of the day
A long, and beautifully written one from Earthpal: -
On a day when we roll out the red carpet for the head-of-state of a country that Amnesty International duly describes as . . . “fear and secrecy permeate every aspect of life. Every day the most fundamental human rights of people in Saudi Arabia are […]
psssst!
Quick. I haven’t got long.
Have you read Simon Jenkins’ Op-Ed in today’s Sunday Times?
Jenkins’ - normally - really bugs me, but this is a very well thought-out piece and is very close to my thoughts on the relationship between the West and Islam.
And in a Murdoch paper too!
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