Voting for fascists is not a victimless crime. All but the most supine news mills are freely making comparisons with 1930s Germany, and you want to look after your mate Beeeph. Cute. You'll be able to enjoy the smell of prosperity as much as Beeeph does.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=589884 It looks like Bush took Beeeph's vote as a mandate to dig more of his famous dry oil wells all over America while ripping out the last forests and fouling the air so that the whole country smells like Texas. That's the smell of pros...

Nice overview jeb. While that last quote is quite laughable at face value, I wonder whether it isn't simply another slap in the form of heavy patronage - "Sonny, we know you need a very simple frame of reference to get you started. We suppose you know a something about brands (you know, like Skoal v...

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2004-09-Strategic_Communication.pdf Bit of a tough read for chilluns this one, as it has no pictures or jingles and fills an astonishing 111 pages, but it seems to be a big slap on the forehead for your infantile President and his policy dwarves. From the military ...

ender, Michael Ruppert has an article for you, titled Snap Out of It! Hope is for lazy people. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/110504_snap_out.shtml Also, if you read Greg Palast, you would maybe stop believing that 51% of Americans voted for Bush - cold comfort though that knowledge is. S...

Uncharacteristically I had a quick look at Fatty Moore's site to see if he was cranking up for a massive counterswipe after the stolen election. It came as no surprise that he wasn't. Instead he offered a banal list of reasons why one shouldn't be too upset. Two that particularly struck me were; - B...

I agree! I also think it's time to stop 'supporting the troops'. How can one not support the war but support the troops who are fighting it (and shooting prisoners, civilians, and anything that moves...)? In the UK, the families of Scottish soldiers who have been killed in Iraq are going to protest ...

...how their own intellectual smugness may have alienated those less able to understand the implications of the current political direction. That hits close to home with the discussion at the beginning of this thread. I disagree - things have gone beyond that. I've been exchanging mail with a nomin...

Bos, there are scales of awfulness. What Saddam did to Falluja and what we are doing to Falluja are terrible - but you can see the difference in degree for yourself. It wasn't a free fire zone under Saddam. Afghans tolerated the Taliban because they brought stability. People who are at the brink gen...

Goemon, it's just an outline. I don't know exactly what would happen or what is required. For example, an apology might be a simple admission that mistakes were made and that the costs to Iraqi citizens have been unnecessarily high. Punishing those responsible for abuses in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere ...

Bos, I insult you because you say things like > I can't understand how you could support him I don't. Never have. But in the real, non-black and white world, a lot of Iraqis in fact did, with full recognition of his horrible vices. I try to understand why, and maybe acknowledge some of the reasons. ...

Go play with your haw flakes. That's all you're good for.

Ah, good, somebody who makes sense at last. What to do now is obviously an extremely complex problem, but in outline, the US and the UK should first of all apologize and repent. That would have to involve the perpetrators being punished in some way. They should stop talking about a war on terror in ...

"The Iraq-America Freedom Alliance (IAFA) is a coalition of American and Iraqi organizations and individuals committed to fostering goodwill between our nations' citizens and winning the war on terror. We support a free, democratic and pluralistic Iraq that is at peace with the world. IAFA will prov...

"For 35 years Saddam pushed us down. He forced me to leave my home and my community to find safety. But now, we have been given freedom for the first time. It is all new and feels like a dream. We have a new government who I think is good and who promises to do great things. We can live and work and...

Fucking moron

Bos, dear, you need to rethink your approach as a consumer of news. All media outlets sometimes provide accurate news, and all media, including the Guardian, often provide news that doesn't pass a 1-second sniff test. You just have to learn to distinguish for yourself. Did you actually read the arti...

Read some stuff written by real Iraqis and wake the fuck up!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story ... 54,00.html

Agent Bos, you're slippery. We were talking about hostage beheadings. Zarqawi's group have not, as far as I know, beheaded anybody who is not a war profiteer. Everything you say about him can be said of many Americans who are currently in Iraq, substituting 'Islam' with 'Christianity', and 'westerne...

Straw man argument. I don't think Saddam was wonderful. But he did not preside over anything like the state of anarchy that prevails now. And don't forget, when some other criminal tortures and rapes people, that's their moral responsibility. When our boys do it, that's our moral responsibility. In ...

Agent Bos, some of those Iraqi citizens could be you. If a coalition of say, Chinese and Turkish troops invaded Japan tomorrow, I might be tempted to resist them. I might also be tempted to kill anybody who cooperated with them. Then again, I might decide that what that weird coalition had to offer ...

Well it looks as though Bush is buying some dead Iraqi citizens in Falluja with his new political capital. When he promised to 'spread freedom', I knew it meant something bad, but didn't go so far as to imagine it would include turning inhabited cities into free fire zones. I wonder if there are any...

Cor blimey Mr*, you're right!

There I was shooting myself in the foot each time with "Flatten Image"... doh!