Monthly Archive: April 2003

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Emphasizing

So Krugman has also noticed the extraordinary “I am not a crook!“-like chutzpah of a White House that obviously feels it can now never be held accountable, when it dismissed Presidential lies as “as...

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A Fallujah Too Far?

So I mentioned yesterday that US troops in Iraq had been shooting demonstrators again, this time in Fallujah. I see they shot more today. Way to build democracy! Anyway, it turns out that Fallujah...

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Guilt By Association

So the Feds have finally got around to charging Mike Hawash, perhaps prompted by the very public campaign against his internment. I can think of a few people who were falsely imprisoned for decades...

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Justified Homicide

So Colin Powell, the My Lai apologist, has produced another opus. Contradicting the eye-witness accounts of literally hundreds of experienced war journalists and live footage from a French TV crew, he claims that the...

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Salad Days For Japan’s Pee Drinkers

So according to this person, Japan’s second-highest ranked politician Taku Yamasaki is a closet pee drinker, and a bit of a randy old sort. Apparently, in Japan this sort of thing doesn’t cause many...

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Mmmm, This IS A Tasty Burger!

No pulp fiction here when a guy chomped down on a Burger King Whopper and got a mouth full of poo. He’s suing, of course. “I took a bite out of it,” the truck...

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We Were Not Lying

So the Bush gang are now furiously backpedalling. Bush has announced he believes Iraq may have destroyed any banned weapons before the US invasion, while Bush Gang insiders claim it’s all a matter of...