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[The Right Place] The Downing Street Memo Follies: The media and the Leftists have had a field day with the Downing Street memos that they claim imply that the Bush administration lied about the intelligence on WMD in order to justify the attack on Iraq. Despite the fact that none of the memos actually say that, none of them quote any officials or any documents, and that the text of the memos show that the British government worried about the deployment of WMD by Saddam against Coalition troops, Kuwait and/or Israel, the meme continues to survive.
[refWrite] War: Neo-Constantian thawt Courts martial and courts civil -- reflecting on the difference: writing an opinion piece in The Telegraph (London, UK), entitled, ""Bad Law is making a Just War so..., as it was in Somalia), in Iraq, and soon in a third extremely important war-zone that is emerging... as Professor of Art History at the Free University (VU), Amsterdam.
[Playahata.com Latest News] PLAYAHATA of the Month -May: In Liberia, which has been beset by civil war, LIB, a private London bank, was behind attempts to monopolise alluvial diamond production and the country’s telecommunications. The UN and the World Bank have criticised the schemes as secretive and against the country’s
[Skookum] Deja Vu: As Faruk listened to the BBC broadcast over his morning coffee, he recalled that when Chalabi was installed as leader by Cheney and Rumsfeld in spring 2003, several high level State Department and CIA officials registered strong, public protests. Chalabi--in exile since 1958--had managed to siphon millions in US aid for his Iraqi National Congress in London, but when Franks was ordered to fly Chalabi and his troops in for the photo-op “liberation of Baghdad” (that amounted to about two blocks of downtown), Chalabi could only muster seven hundred followers, and most of them were bribed Iranian-backed Shiites.
[Feministblogs.org] feminist blogs » Iraq: Hearts & minds: Sidney Blumenthal's commentary appears in today's Guardian, "Blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel." "The American public is increasingly disillusioned by the Iraq war, and Bush's triumphalism only makes things worse."
[Countercurrents.org] Who Will Dig The Mass Graves Now? By Girl Blog from Iraq: It gives me a momentary sense that everything must be right in the world to see them standing lovely and bright under the Baghdad sun, not far from the local mosque. Their elegant simplicity is such a contrast with the intricate designs of our mosques.
[Marian.typepad.com] Marian's Blog: Iraq: Hearts & minds: of what I, Marian, shall call the Black Conservative Contract On America include (according to L.A. Times):
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