Archive for September, 2005
The Porn of War
The website has become a stomach-churning showcase for the pornography of war–close-up shots of Iraqi insurgents and civilians with heads blown off, or with intestines spilling from open wounds. Sometimes photographs of mangled body parts are displayed: Part of the game is for users to guess what appendage or organ is on display…..
Blair ‘relished’ sending British forces to war
Blair appeared privately to “relish” sending British troops to war in Iraq as his “first blooding”, while publicly claiming he did it “with a heavy heart”…..
U.S. the new Saddam
The Pentagon plans to copy Imperial Britain’s method of ruling oil-rich Iraq. In the 1920s, the British cobbled together Iraq from three disparate Ottoman provinces to control newly-found oil fields in Kurdistan and along the Iranian border…..