File this under the “insufficiently-developed sense of their own irony” category .. from the intrepid U.S. State Department, a handy guide for identifying misinformation and propaganda, and a clue into their establishment of a so-called...
Peace in the Middle East, Bush Family-Style. The UN Security Council vetoed the invasion of Iraq and thus the UN did not support it, yet it realized its mandate and went into Iraq anyway hoping to help restore order… Actually, the UN already had an envoy and an...
In the Bush administration’s latest breach of the Geneva Convention, US forces in IRAQ are now kidnapping the wives and families of suspected Ba’ath party collaborators and holding them hostage to force those Ba’athists to turn themselves in....
As the world watches Tony Blair twist in the wind as his political career wanes with accusations of Dodgy Dossiers and his misleading of parliament, the domino drops onto the Bush administration as accusations begin to fly on this side of the Atlantic. The precedent...
Okay, I’ll admit to skimming this, however this might explain why EU resistance to this action in Iraq was so fierce.. and is yet another perspective on the overly-simplistic “War is about oil” mantra. -Ian. —-
