Archive for December, 2003
Gratitude
Those of us who support- from places of relative comfort and safety- the liberation of Iraq owe a special gratitude this holiday season to the soldiers putting their lives on the line every day to accomplish that goal.
So what kind of gratitude is it when Pentagon inspectors find that mess halls run by Halliburton in [...]
Posted: December 22nd, 2003 under War etc.
Iraqi “resistance” leader speaks
The website of Campo Antiimperialista- the folks seeking 5 Euros apiece from us for the Iraqi “resistance”- features an interview with one Jabbar al Kubaysi, “leader of the Iraqi Patriatic [sic] Alliance which strives to unify the Iraqi resistance movement into a common political National Resistance and Liberation Front.”
Kubaysi appears to be a dissident Baathist [...]
Posted: December 22nd, 2003 under War etc.
Season’s Greetings
With five of us contributing to the blog now, I suppose there is a chance that the occassional item will appear over the holiday period but now seems a good time to wish all the best to fellow bloggers and all Harry’s Place readers.
Thanks for your interest and comments over the past year and hope [...]
Posted: December 22nd, 2003 under Misc.
Natural Born Killer
Stephen Pollard is on a killing-spree.
He starts with Ian Huntley
I can see no reason, either moral or practical, why Ian Huntley should not be executed - or why other murderers, too, should not be killed.
moves on to Saddam
As I watched the wonderful pictures of Saddam’s humiliation, I could not - nor can I still - [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2003 under UK Politics.
When Rummy met Saddam
When Donald Rumsfeld went to Baghdad as President Reagan’s envoy in early 1984, he was instructed to reassure the Iraqi regime that- despite the adminstration’s public codemnation of Iraq’s use of chemical weapons against Iran- it was still interested in “continuing to improve bilateral relations with Iraq, at a pace of Iraq’s choosing.”
In other words, [...]
Posted: December 20th, 2003 under International.
War of Words
Labour MP Louise Ellman has accused the leader of the Muslim Association of Britain of having links with Hamas. Assam Tamimi has threatened to sue her if she repeats allegations outside parliament. Read the full story here.
Posted: December 20th, 2003 under UK Politics.
Poor Statistics
Ross Clark in the Times reports that the Department Work and Pensions is changing the way it defines poverty.
The old method
which declares to be poor anyone living on less than 60 per cent of median income, is absurd. It is a measure of equality, not poverty: a comfy pay rise for middle managers automatically throws [...]
Posted: December 20th, 2003 under UK Politics.
More Good News
Weapons of Mass Destruction scrapped.
Posted: December 20th, 2003 under International.
Diary of a Dean-o-Phobe
Jonathan Chait of The New Republic (who famously proclaimed his hatred for President Bush earlier this year) has lately found himself hating Howard Dean- the front-runner in the race to oppose Bush in next year’s election- even more.
As he memorably puts it:
Bush is like the next-door neighbor who lets his dog poop on your lawn [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2003 under Stateside.
This is Marxism - accept no imitations
Socialism in an Age of Waiting get right to the point today with a post which anyone who is interested in what Marxists think today should read (scroll down to Stand in the Place Where You Live):
With what ends in view? Well, obviously, in the long term, the attainment of socialism - but let us [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2003 under The Left.