Daily Archive: April 9, 2003

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Should Have Tried the Twinkie Defence

Guy spends five (!) hours trying to kill his wife (via slashing, smothering, and stabbing) and the best defence he can come up with is “I was dreaming”. A nuclear engineer who couldn’t convince...

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A Splendidly Lethal War (For Journalists)

There’s a cool interview with David Halberstam which points out that at current rates, if the Iraq invasion and occupation was to stretch out as long as the occupation in Vietnam did, then nearly...

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Let’s Hear It For The Looters!

So I read endless US media props that everything in Iraq is now “secure” and the people are “rejoicing”. Uh-huh. I think in Iraq, paying homage to those with the biggest tanks is probably...

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The Street Dogs of Baghdad

Fisk reports that dirty bullets were being used on Baghdad buildings – if that’s true then it’s shocking that radiological warfare is being used within densely populated urban environments and not directed against armour...