victoria clarke is being horrible and wearing another horrible jacket - black and hot pink this time

a summary of the major lies for the week. the beeb has even complained that the pentagon is lying to them. "We're getting more truth out of Baghdad than the Pentagon at the moment"

GeeWhiz's radio address: 'a woman was hanged for waving at the coal soldiers' earlier reports said that she had surrendered and been waved through into safety, but afterwards when the soldiers returned, they found her hanged... firstly, gwb is intentionally making outrageous mistruths again... secondly, it struck me as interesting that the soldiers could actually recognise the woman (i think they 'came back the next day' but it may have been later in the same day...) perhaps if there arent many civilians that they see, or maybe if this woman stood out for some reason - but otherwise, id expect that each iraqi civilian is indiscernible from another for the soldiers... although maybe less so to arab am soldiers (i think its easier to visually differentiate within our race)

now the coal soldiers are beating up portugese journos

fox is reporting that iraqis have sacked their air defense minister because he was guilty in the bombings in iraq in the mkt killing the civiillians...