Posted in Iraq, politics/world on Sep 26th, 2007 5 Comments »
Taxi drivers get a lot of stick, mainly because they’ve a tendency to pontificate about things that they don’t fully understand yet still try to make out that they are the ‘world’s foremost authority’, to quote Tony Soprano. They’re a bit like Desmond Fennell actually.
Whenever I find myself in a taxi with an opinioned […]
Posted in Iraq on Sep 12th, 2007 4 Comments »
What is it about September the 11th that has the unhinged unfurling their mangled thoughts with a panache normally associated with the wildly drunken? Martin Amis, to celebrate the day, has taken his mutton fists to the keyboard again and slammed out this:
“September 11 entrained a moral crash, planet-wide; it also loosened the ground […]
Posted in US Politics, Iraq, politics/world on Aug 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
So George Bush says that Iraq is like Vietnam, despite denying the link before. That he should make the speech yesterday, which the New York Times says is the beginning of an ‘initiative to shape the debate on Capitol Hill in September’, before a bunch of hoary Army veterans is interesting.
Interesting not because it’s […]
Posted in Iraq on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Currently, the most read article on the Guardian Unlimited site is this one about the US allegation that Iran has a secret plan for a summer offence designed to oust the US from Iraq. The very experienced reporter Simon Tisdall cites an unnamed US official as saying:
“Tehran’s strategy to discredit the US surge and foment […]
Posted in Iraq, Politics on Mar 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Writing in the Guardian last week about the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, Simon Jenkins was in no mood to celebrate what the last four years have left us with.
“We are bid to celebrate the fourth birthday of a lie. In 2003, they lied about Iraq’s weapons arsenal. They lied about Saddam Hussein’s […]
Posted in Iraq, politics/world on Feb 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
In the print edition of The Irish Times today there was a Reuters report about Dick Cheney’s visit to Japan, where he said that the US has to succeed in Iraq to prevent terrorists attacking the US. It’s not on the site so I can’t link to it.
It was an eventful morning and I lost […]
Posted in Iraq, politics/world on Jan 11th, 2007 4 Comments »
Play the song while reading the text below.
Last night Bush told the American nation that he’s ordering 21,500 more troops into Iraq. Comparisons with The Vietnam War continue to abound, and some have likened the move to that of President Lyndon Johnson’s decision to increase troops in Vietnam and imagine that it’ll achieve […]
Posted in Iraq, politics/world on Dec 31st, 2006 5 Comments »
There is something telling about the fact that footage of Saddam Hussein’s execution should appear on bit torrent sites before CNN, BBC, or even al-Jazeera. On one level it’s just another death in Iraq, and as such is nothing more than the sniper shots, roadside bombs, and rocket attacks that already proliferate web 2.0. But […]
