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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

Monday, November 06, 2006

Robert Fisk: This was a guilty verdict on America as well

Independent

So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even supplied the gas - along with the British, of course - yet there we were yesterday declaring it to be, in the White House's words, another "great day for Iraq". That's what Tony Blair announced when Saddam Hussein was pulled from his hole in the ground on 13 December 2003. And now we're going to string him up, and it's another great day. Read more

2 Comments:

TONY said...: Fisk is bang on the money as usual. Did you catch Blair tying himself in knots trying not to answer a straight press enquiry about whether he supported the hanging of Saddam? Thanks to reporters like Fisk, the days when we got foreign affairs information from politicians are long gone and Blair and his spivs have fewer and fewer places to hide.; 8:41 PM
exoplanet said...: I parted with cash this morning and bought myself a copy of the independent - given that fisk,cockburn and saddam all shared the front page. Fisk tells it like it is, again.

I regret to say that I managed to miss the bush-poodle-bitch . I did however have the pleasure of seeing the glove puppet Marge Beckett talking shite - hanging is cool apparently - rejoice!; 10:12 PM

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