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"Meanwhile, back in Iraq"

You remember Iraq? The place where over 100,000 civilians are thought to have been killed since the war was declared to be over? The land we went to liberate from oppression and torture by...well, oppressing and torturing them?

Remember why we went there? "Evildoers! Big Guns!! Huge Bombs!! Nuclear and Biological Apocalypse! 45 minutes until DOOMSDAY!!!"

Well, alas it's now been confirmed that the whole raison d'etre for the war was a fantasy on a par with anything Tolkein wrote.

[URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1389370,00.html[/URL]



And cue and increasingly bovine public not giving a damn about brown people suffering, just so long as they get their petrol and tax cuts innit?

When asked why the administration had so far failed to locate Osama Bin Laden, more than three years after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, the president responded, "Because he's hiding."

This one made me laugh.
Gave me mental images of Osama Bin Laden hiding in the Whitehouse closet...

I was about to quote that paragraph as well. :D

Something else that's been kept quiet:

[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4082017.stm[/URL]

Stupid Butler!
Why didn't he tell everyone while they were still listening?


But Downing Street said Mr Blair should be judged by results not his style.

Aye up... I'm sure I read something like this a few posts down...

I read '1984' last summer, and the echoes of that with what we hear from Bush and Bliar is quite chilling.

Just goes to show, if you repeat the same lie often enough people will start to believe it.