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Saturday, April 19, 2003 Three card trick Must be nice when you can say one thing and do the opposite, and not get called on it. I guess if you're Prime Minister you can tell us there's nothin up your sleeve, and we just have to buy it. For example: he keeps telling us he's bringing the troops home, and that Australia won't have an involvement in the onerous post-war peace-keeping efforts in Iraq. Our East Timor peace keeping role is already expensive enough, he says. But at the same time as NOT playing a peace-keeping role, Australia will have a "niche commitment" in post-war Iraq. But it's not a role. It's a niche commitment. It's what he said, yet at the same time it's something else. It's what it is, and what it's not, and also what never was. But he's not lying! Honest. Cos he's an honourable man. posted by Jojo | 2:07 PM Thursday, April 17, 2003 Amnesty International: US putting oil before people Amnesty International has accused the US of putting more effort into protecting Iraqi oil wells than into any security measures for protecting Iraqi people. posted by Jojo | 11:46 PM Behind the claps and cheers... ...and the backslapping, while George W makes speeches, there is another voice in Iraq: Exasperated US military officials tried to hamper the media from covering new demonstrations in Baghdad on Tuesday while some 20,000 people in the Shiite Muslim bastion of Nasiriyah railed against a US-staged meeting on Iraq's future. That story from Tom Tomorrow. posted by Jojo | 11:36 PM Tuesday, April 15, 2003 Sound familiar? Bush sets his sights on Syria: Syria became the potential new flashpoint in the Middle East yesterday when the United States accused Iraq's neighbour of possessing weapons of mass destruction and harbouring fleeing members of Saddam Hussein's regime. American foreign policy is like Mr Bean trying to park his car. He just bumps into the car in front and pushes it forward. Then he bumps into the car behind and pushes it back, until there's enough room for his car. Then he wanders off looking VERY pleased with himself. posted by Jojo | 9:56 PM Old news but good? We're so dumb we're winners: the Australian Government has won the Most Egregiously Stupid Award for the $15 million fridge magnet campaign to educate Australians about terrorism. If you remember, the kit urged Australians to report anything suspicious while asking them to be "alert but not alarmed". So ashamed to be Australian right now. posted by Jojo | 9:44 PM Monday, April 14, 2003 Would you believe...Greenpeace is the equivalent of the Iraqi information minister? No? but Paul Sheehan does. According to his article in the SMH Online today, The Information Minister and Greenpeace share the same mask of deceit. Also, In Australia, the rearguard action of behalf of Saddam's regime was fought by Greenpeace. Within 12 hours of al-Sahaf's last stand on the roof of the Palestine Hotel, Greenpeace executed an ambitious public relations guerilla raid on the Australian Navy. Sheehan is referring to the Greenpeace activists who clamped themselves to the side of the HMAS Sydney in an attempt to stop the ship from taking more troops to the Gulf. So for anyone who might be wondering what the connection is, between this action, and the Iraqi information minister: Greenpeace operates like the fedayeen. Under the flag of feel-good, save-the-planet environ-mentalism is a harder-edged organisation which financially supports corporate-hating, military-loathing, anti-globalisation, anti-capitalist fundamentalists whose highest priorities are neither green nor peaceful. Oh right. Thanks Paul Sheehan. posted by Jojo | 9:10 AM |
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