The lies that can be bought with a spare 15 million

These are the sickening and cynical ads that Ari Fleisher helped produce, with a little help from some wealthy Republican donors. Most of the ads feed into the lie that Iraq was linked to 9/11 or that Iraq was a terrorist breeding ground before it was invaded. Who exactly are they referring to when they…

Disappearing the insurgents

What’s a better way to defeat the insurgents that killed scores of Americans than by re branding them as “concerned local nationals” and giving them arms? After all, this is part of the surge, right?

No really, the surge is working

Iraq Update More that 600,000 Iraqis have abandoned their homes since the surge began. The Iraqi Red Crescent Organisation said the total number of internally displaced has jumped from 499,000 to 1.1 million since extra US forces arrived with the aim of making the country more secure. The UN-run International Organisation for Migration says the…

Palestinians just love to kill Jews. Right?

Those Palestinian terrorists are apparently busy working themselves into a frenzy: Hamas may carry out a mega-terror attack, the Deputy Shin Bet Chief, known only as Y, told cabinet members Sunday. “There were clear orders from the Hamas headquarters abroad to Hamas here to carry out a mass casualty attack in Israel,” he said.According to…

Bin Laden’s greatest ally

George Bush appears to have granted Bin Laden his greatest wish. The only western journalist to interview al Qaeda’s leader says the US invasion of Iraq “fulfilled Osama bin Laden’s wish.” In a recent interview with Australian television, Al Quds editor Abdul Bari Atwan claimed that the terror leader had sought to draw US troops…

Regime change in Iraq – part deux

The ruling elite in Washington, who are never averse to making a quick buck, are gearing up for regime change in Baghdad. Sensing he has nothing to loose, Maliki seems to be tiring of his role as Washington’s puppet and pointed out that such suggestions of replacing the Iraqi leader not only makes a mockery…

No rights for Islamists?

The human rights situation in Egypt remains dire (thanks, in part, to the support of the US administration. Democracy? Hardly crosses their mind.) Cairo-based blog The Skeptic explains the ongoing oppression of the Muslim Brotherhood (and the group’s site reveals yet more.) It constantly astounds me that supposed human rights campaigners in the West remain…

Fumbling is official policy

Australia is on the frontline in the war on terror. Or so our little SAS commentariat likes to think. In fact, the case of terror suspect Mohamed Haneef shows the Howard government and the federal police utterly out of their depth. The Sydney Morning Herald’s David Marr explains: “Geography was not one of my better…

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