2003

Link to report It is reported that many of the ships chartered by the MoD to transport the Army to Kuwait for the war against Iraq were very dodgy indeed – up to and including the one that was detained by coastguards before it could leave on grounds of safety. This is very un-fantastic news:…

Read More STUFT Stuffed: dodginess of ships chartered for Iraq

It is with disappointment that I have to say that one of the first blogs this one linked too, WindsOfChange.net, is now persona non grata. It was an impressively professional outfit, but their recent and deeply unpleasant attack on Edward Said on the occasion of his death warrants the end of blogging relations. “Columbia professor…

Read More Edward Said – and how I fell out with WindsOfChange.Net

So, the Iraq Survey Group’s report says they have found nothing at all in Iraq. What a shocker! This body was, of course, the super-super wondersquad far beter than any wimpy eurosexual surrender-monkey UN inspectors who would tear aside the veil of excuses and deceit and….something like that anyway. And they appear to agree with…

Read More No weapons of mass destruction; war all a mistake!