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The author of the blog “Baghdad Burning” is longlisted for a literary prize.
Baghdad Burning is written by an anonymous female, chronicling how things are going in the city and in regards to the war/occupation from her perspective. Congratulations!
Monthly Archive for March, 2006
So while GWB was in Cleveland on the 22nd; and he was spreadin’ lies!
Emphasis mine…
Perhaps most on target was an elderly gentleman who cited what he said were the three main reasons for going to war in Iraq — WMD, Iraq’s ties to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists and the alleged purchase of nuclear material from Niger — and then noted dryly that all three of these rationales turned out to be false.
“How do we restore confidence that Americans may have in their leaders and to be sure that the information they are getting now is correct?” he asked the president.
How indeed? “That’s a great question,” began Bush by way of dissembling. “First, just if I may correct a misperception. I don’t think we ever said — at least I know I didn’t say — that there was a direct connection between Sept. 11 and Saddam Hussein.”
Really? So when he said in his May 1, 2003, “Mission Accomplished” speech on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln that “we have removed an ally of al Qaeda,” he meant a different gang with the same name as the one blamed for the attack on the World Trade Center twin towers and Pentagon? It is his way of finessing the firm conclusion of the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission that Hussein was an opponent of al Qaeda and never an ally. Yet that didn’t stop Bush from again on Monday insisting that “the central front on the war on terror is Iraq.”
Even better, Crooks and Liars has some video for ya, with a clip from SOTU 2003 that, for all intents and purposes, proves George Walker Bush lied to the crowd in Cleveland this past Wednesday.
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
BBC reports they were rescued at around 8 am local time (it would’ve been around midnight ET), in an effort spearheaded by British troops, with support from US and Canadian special forces. No one was hurt.
From The Guardian: Prominent Muslims also backed the hostages’ release. Anas Altikriti, a leading Muslim member of the British anti-war movement, flew to Baghdad to try to secure their release and the Muslim Association of Britain made an international appeal.
The fourth member, Tom Fox, had been found dead nearly two weeks ago. May he rest in peace.
It seems like I’m changing styles like some change their undies!
I’m playing with the style called Hemingway right now. I may go back to K2 after a while; but…yeah.
Also, I’ve fixed my archives! Yay! :D
Broken pipeline causing massive oil leak into the Arctic Ocean.
The pipeline is owned by BP…an oil company that has an environmentally-friendly image.
The publicity caused by the leak in the the 30-year-old pipeline could seriously damage BP’s image, which has been carefully crafted to show it as a company concerned about the environment. Unlike other major oil companies, BP boasts that it is fully signed up to the dangers of global warming and it makes a conspicuous effort to flaunt its green credentials, tackling local environmental problems and erecting wind turbines above its petrol stations.
After the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in 1989, this is the largest recorded oil spill in Alaska.
Also, according to some, BP had been warned about this sort of thing happening, but did absolutely nothing.
Tsk. Tsk.
