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Quelle Surprise!
Earlier here.
Don’t Let Iraqis Eat Cake!
I also note from this report that the US occupation regime has managed to gradually re-employ or co-opt most of the thugs and heavies from the former regime. Why am I not surprised? And the most ironic? Fox “News”, that dangerous propaganda trash now proved to turn you into a moron on prolonged viewing, has decided to employ the best local talent it can find.
The government minders who spent their days reporting to the intelligence services on foreign reporters or doing their best to obstruct their work have gone on to well-paid jobs – for the same foreign news organisations they once hounded. The second-in-command at the information ministry, who spent his days reading the reports the minders wrote about visiting foreign journalists, has been employed by Fox News.
Earlier here.
Let Them Eat Cake
So Lisa was very confused last night, watching the results come in. “Who voted for the recall?” “Who voted for Schwarzenegger?” “I don’t know anyone who did!” Considering the returns from San Francisco County for both Recall and Candidate, that’s not surprising:
Shall Gray Davis be recalled?
Yes 45,783 19.6%
No 187,450 80.4%
Cruz M. Bustamante Dem 132,123 63.4%
Arnold Schwarzenegger Rep 39,330 18.9%
Israel To Attack Iranian Nuclear Facilities?
So now I read that Israel says it will attack, bomb, and destroy anyone it likes, whenever it likes. I think this is laying the groundwork for an Israeli assault on Iran’s uranium reprocessing facilities. The US often uses the Israeli military as proxies for politically sensitive operations, and Israel did the much the same thing in 1981, when Israeli jets destroyed Iraq’s French-built Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad.
The attack raised a number of questions of interpretation regarding international legal concepts. Those who approved of the raid argued that the Israelis had engaged in an act of legitimate self-defense justifiable under international law and under Article 51 of the charter of the United Nations (UN). Critics contended that the Israeli claims about Iraq’s future capabilities were hasty and ill-considered and asserted that the idea of anticipatory self-defense was rejected by the community of states. In the midst of this controversy, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) came under fire from individuals and from governments who complained that the Vienna-based UN agency had failed to alert the world to developments at Osiraq. IAEA officials denied these charges and reaffirmed their position on the Iraqi reactor, that is, that no weapons had been manufactured at Osiraq and that Iraqi officials had regularly cooperated with agency inspectors.
1981, meet 2003!
Smells Like Victory?
Apparently, the dumber media outlets are hailing the Bush “victory” in bribing Turkey to send ten thousand troops into Iraq, despite strong objections from the US-appointed Iraq Governing Council, who want the Turks to stay out. Hmmm. Only a few weeks ago, US soldiers had to arrest a Turkish army black bag squad within Iraq whose mission was apparently to assassinate Kirkuk’s Kurdish governor. I guess they don’t believe in recalls? Anyway, I’m sure the news that a division of Turkish soldiers will soon be encamped on their southern flank will cheer up Iraq’s northern Kurds no end…
Earlier here.
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