Iraq Reviews > Keep on flogging the Downing Street Memo

[pandagon.net - just poppin' and bloggin'] Jake's take on the whole thing is dead on, but I would like to point out something about the smoking gun effect. It's human nature to focus in on one damning detail in things like this.

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[Trinja.cryptek.org] Robin's Blog: And trusting the media is a lot like trusting the government, because it is one of the main factors of enforcement throughout the world of standardized views, thoughts, acts etc. For example, there's the new rampage of idiocy going about where imperialistic, bigoted fundamentalist members of mainstream religion (primarily Christianity) are trying to fight cartoons shown on TV because 'they influence homosexuality', and we all know how since racism, sexism etc is no longer legal that we have to narrow our minds again and then pick on some other random group of well-meaning people.

[Bodyandsoul.typepad.com] Body and Soul: War crimes in the Times: Here David Rieff indirectly admits to American violation of the laws of war in the first Gulf War, but if you blink you'd miss it.  It's only a sidenote to the main thrust of this article, so one could excuse the offhand nature of the remark on that ground and even praise Rieff for mentioning it, except for one thing -- Rieff wrote the sanctions article in the NYT Magazine a few months ago when this was directly relevant and didn't breathe a word about it then.

[Floggingthequill.com] Flogging the Quill: Writing: In Flogging the Quill, the voice you read/hear is mine. I cancut loose and do what I want, unrestricted by theme or venue or acharacter.

[12thharmonic.com] 12thharmonic Blog » IMPEACHMENT TIME: “FACTS WERE FIXED.”: For years, after each damning report on BBC TV, viewers inevitably ask me, "Isn't this grounds for impeachment?" — vote rigging, a blind eye to terror and the bin Ladens before 9-11, and so on.

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