Archive for January 23, 2005
A Carnival Evening, 1886. Henri Rousseau.
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
“On One Night, Iraqi Turns From Friend to Foe.” (and this is by the Pentagon’s enthusiastic spinner, Jackie Spinner of the Washington Post).
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
New US “liberation” plan for Iraq: “Let Iraqis kill other Iraqis; and let Iraqis be killed by Iraqis.”
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
In “liberated” Iraq: US troops ensures that only the “right” views are expressed. Here, US occupation forces are erasing this graffiti (“Entrance to Fallujah does not mean the end,” it says).
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld’s Domain
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
“Bush Pulls ‘Neocons’ Out of the Shadows”. What shadows?
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
“What he’s done is take over the old progressive language of ‘freedom’ and redefined it without explicitly saying it — only with code words — in terms of a conservative worldview.”
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
“End of Iraq’s nightmare … or the start: Violence threatens to plunge the country into civil war as the beleaguered Sunni minority prepares to boycott this month’s polls.”
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
A headline from an Israeli newspaper. “Israel to U.S.: Press Syria in order to aid Abbas.”
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
Corrupt agent for Saddam “pursued contacts with Democrats like former President Jimmy Carter and Republicans like Jack Kemp, the former vice presidential candidate, government officials said Friday.”
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
The Hermit Nuclear Kingdom
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
“Attacks on the U.S.-led coalition since November 2003, when statistics were first available, have risen from 735 a month to 2,400 in October. Air Force Brig. Gen. Erv Lessel, the multinational forces’ deputy operations director, told Knight Ridder on Friday that attacks were currently running at 75 a day, about 2,300 a month, well below [...]
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad
This statement was supposed to run in the New York Times on the day after the inauguration. Without explanation, the New York Times did not run the full page ad until today.
Posted on January 23, 2005 by As'ad