“The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.”
Do you believe The Washington Post?
Iraq’s Deadly Surge Claims 1,300 — Morgue Figure Eclipses Other Counts Since Shrine Attack — BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 — Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week’s bombing of a Shiite shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the […]
The question is Machiavelli’s and is his advice to anybody who wants to know who did something in politics (including war) and why. He suggested you ask “cui bono?” - “who benefits?”
I have been asking this question about the Samarra bombing and am writing a multipart part series suggesting the reply.
The first installment is here […]
What’s on her face is the blood of her two dead sons.What she’s holding is their shoes.
They were killed on February 23rd 2006 in the violence following the bombing in Samarra.
Just go. Take your soldiers, your mercenaries, your “advisors,” your murderers, your troops who steal while they’re searching Iraqi homes, your troops who suffer “gay […]
The war on drugs I mean, or perhaps I mean the war in Afghanistan, the one that the current American Government fucked up and are now running away from as fast as they can like the cowardly incompetents that they are. Of course that leaves us their allies to try to clean up their […]
“Hours after a commercial plane struck the Pentagon on September 11 2001 the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was issuing rapid orders to his aides to look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, according to notes taken by one of them.
“Hard to get good case. Need to move swiftly,” the notes say. “Near term target needs […]
Here’s a sample of the reaction to the Samarra Bombing from various (mostly Shii) message boards and fora that I’ve translated. There’s lots more where that came from. I’ll write more about this apalling event later.
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Update
I’m in the process of finishing a posting on this now. However I’ve received a lot of requests […]
BNP to use Prophet cartoon in campaign
The British National Party is seeking to exploit controversies involving Muslims in its campaign for local authority elections in May.
The extreme right-wing party, which hopes to field 1,000 candidates in England, will include in its campaign material one of the cartoons which sparked outrage among Muslims across the world, […]
I’ve been unhappy with some aspects of blogger’s service not least the inability to have permanent pages, categories, and the constant outages. a further source of discontent is that some of my readers amongst them Mrs. K8 has reported that the site takes forever to load in their browsers.
I’ve been experimenting with a wordpress […]
It seems that SGO who is the sysop for Liberal Avenger doesn’t like trolls.
I’m in a Picasso sort of mood today so here’s a sketch of a troll I whumped up in the style of Picasso.
The loud shrieking you’re now hearing is probably Pablo’s ghost
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Reuters headline today:
“Bombs kill 19 in Iraq after lull in violence”
What lull? And why are the following paragraphs not a headline story in its own right?
The violence reminded Iraqi politicians of the security crisis they will face after forming a new government, a process that has yet to kick off more than two months after […]
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