iraq

“I can confirm that we are a bunch of lawless thugs …” from cassandra05 263 days old

[ ... ] and Iraq, and of course we have to use aerial weapons like artillery and white phosphorus, and we do use those weapons, even in areas that do ...

Paedophile terrorists are after your kids from cassandra05 384 days old

What motivates terrorists: “Jacqui Smith gave a speech this week on international terrorism which rather remarkably failed to mention the war in Iraq ...

Stating the obvious from cassandra05 550 days old

[ ... ] to the Iraq war it was left to the left to make the argument that this was a “war for oil”. Establishment people – those in the know – rolled their ...

Facts from cassandra05 600 days old

Mr Cheney’s government is helping bring democracy to the Middle East. Mr Cheney’s government has helped bring democracy to the Palestinians. Mr Cheney’s ...

Disingenuous? You bet. from cassandra05 608 days old

[ ... ] of Iraq. We should have said that this was the upper figure published by the Iraq Body Count at the time and we should have explained that Iraq ...

Do today’s news media fulfil their “fourth estate” role adequately, or have they just become a tool for the “manufacture of consent”? from cassandra05 615 days old

[ ... ] to the Iraq war: the critical nature of much media coverage, including predictions of a potential “looming quagmire”; and “a prism” through which ...

Lies, damned lies, and “democracy promotion” from cassandra05 650 days old

[ ... ] of Iraq should hopefully be well-known by now, but just in case it isn’t: “The Joint Intelligence Committee, the top level of British ...

Objectivity, BBC-style from cassandra05 665 days old

[ ... ] in Iraq.” More recently, we’ve had the BBC’s director of news Helen Boaden to thank for carefully re-stating the official line. Here’s an email ...

Guardian leaders: our leaders’ guardians from cassandra05 697 days old

[ ... ] on Iraq posits the figure of “Up to 85,000 Iraqi deaths” since May 2003. Where exactly does this figure come from? Iraq Body Count’s currently ...

Lapdogs of War from cassandra05 699 days old

[ ... ] after Iraq will never find them again and stagger around bellowing for the rest of their days, but the hysterical mood is lifting from others.” ...