They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Iraq definitely not a disaster

John Howards assertion that those who consider the Iraq adventure to be a disaster "have no idea what a disaster represents" is not completely without foundation, although the only sense in which the word 'disaster' does not apply to Iraq is an obsolete definition: 'an unfavorable aspect of a star or planet'.

On the other hand the following def dictionary definition seems broadly correct: A total fucking failure