and some more 'war hurts' pictures - not cos i like em, but cos war hurts... yep, sometimes even more than the ignominy of being paraded on aljazz tv

a history of middle eastern imperialism

btw - the war council in the azures... does that count as an overseas trip for bush? is that his 4th?

the frailty of the coalwill

euphemisms cannot hide war's bloody truth - is a 'target of opportunity' an assassination attempt? arent they illegal? how bout 'boots on ground'? i only heard that on fox (and in the aforementioned mishal husain/armitage interview - and if he aint fox, then who is?)

in trying to explain the war prgoress, cohen (ex-sos?) just said 'we know speed kills - just as it does on our highways, so it is true for war' fuck off.

along the same lines, the reasons that we arent seeing jubilant, liberated iraqi's is cos their govt will shoot em in the back... otherwise they'd bring us flowers im sure....

i love it when the bbc sez 'these reports may have been monitored by the iraqis', implying that one needs take into account that there is censorship - but the dont say that about US media - despite cnn's policy or passing everything through the pentagon media room & of course the, um, oversight, of, um, embedded journalsts

and lets not it go un-noticed that rupert was just given approval to run a 24 hour news channel in india - what sort of damage will that inflict on the region? world? nuclear fucking neighbours and a faux new network... awesome!

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
--Bertrand Russel

"If you want to test a man's character, give him power." --Abraham Lincoln

"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet." --Lyle Myhr

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting." -E.E. Cummings

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the American flag." - Strom Thurmond

i cant wait till ready.gov publishes traffic stats to show how effective the campaing has been... when more likely it is confused individuals like myself what the fuck they were trying to say