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Month: March 2003

  • Editing war

    I was pointed to the site ogrish.com by Bernie – to be honest some of the pictures are sickening. As are many of the pictures on AlJazeera’s website. Of interest to me was one particular picture that I am posting for only one reason – its ‘sanitisation’. I will not normally be posting these images.…

  • Saddam starts to sound more like his hero, Stalin

    Robert Fisk of the Independent is currently writing his stories from Baghdad. Some of the things he mentions are interesting – and I have thought about the way in which the Iraqi Ministers give the dead and wounded statistics – they don’t appear over the top, and are quite believeable given the scale of UK-US…

  • Martin Amis – The Palace of the End

    On March 4 2003, the Guardian published an article by Martin Amis. It was entitled ‘Palace of the End’. I read the article and gave a synopsis of it on that day. The article has since been taken down from the Guardian’s website. But literally hundreds of people are looking for the article – I…

  • War in Iraq: Christina Lamb

    Karlin has a text exerpt from a radio show, Pat Kenny on Radio 1 (Ireland), in which London Times journalist Christina Lamb made some interesting observations. I listened to the show at the time, but as usual, Karlin beat me to the blog story. Here is some of what Christina notes: I’m not under any…

  • Death to French Fries: Matthew Engel

    Matthew Engel has a funny take on the ‘French Fries’ story. He wonders why the French have become the enemy when the war is being fought against the Iraqi regime. He hints that making France the enemy was a pursued policy of the UK and US. I would be inclined to agree. Many of the…

  • Suddenly, the government of the United States has discovered the virtues of international law

    George Monbiot again this week. He deals with the issue ot PoWs, and their rights. Monbiot questions the anger of the US administration at TV pictures of captured US soldiers – because they have done far worse to the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. His argument is telling here: The US government claims that these men…

  • Why now?: Richard Norton-Taylor

    Richard Norton-Taylor exposes a large amount of dissent within the British government concerning any war with Iraq. He reports that many withing the British security establishment feel that any invasion of Iraq, would simply lead to more Islamic extremists. As a leaked secret document from the defence intelligence staff puts it: “Al-Qaida will take advantage…

  • Troops find hidden Iraqi cruise missiles

    This is very disturbing indeed, if true. It could mean there are many more bunkers like this in Iraq, and such weapons could lengthen the war dramatically. But the most disturbing find was two Russian-made Harith cruise missiles, each six metres (20ft) long, and nine warheads hidden in two enormous, reinforced-concrete bunkers.

  • Michael Moore on Bush

    I must admit, I am on Michael Moore’s mailing list…and here is what he said at the Oscars, upon receiving the award for best documentary feature. His fellow nominees were also on stage. They’re here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitous times. We live in…

  • "Then the whole car was on fire"

    “Then the whole car was on fire. We were enveloped in flames. It was terrifying. I’m so angry that we were fired on by the allies. The Iraqis must have been their real target but I’m sure they were surrendering and anyway they were all dead within minutes.” Daniel Demoustier, ITN news cameraman.