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Hey, Andrew, does Liberal Democrat mean something different in England? If not, even the Lib Dems – and a Baroness at that! – are coming around.
(Letter to the Editor, The Times)
From Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, Liberal Democrat MEP for South East Region
Sir, While we await the Prime Minister�s dossier on Iraq, the debate continues to centre on the threat posed by Saddam to the region and the West.
Last week, the AMAR (Arab Marshland) Foundation published a study on the Iraqi marshlands. The book provides irrefutable evidence of the systematic campaign of genocide being perpetrated against the Marsh Arab people. Many thousands have been killed, over 200,000 have fled the country, and all but 15 per cent of the marshlands have been drained.
The case for action should not only be based on what Saddam might do to us, but what he is currently doing to his own people.
Yours sincerely,
EMMA NICHOLSON
(European Parliament Rapporteur on Iraq; Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party),
European Parliament,
Rue Wiertz, B-1047 Brussels.
September 10.
Read the other letter here. Both are doozies and unequivocal in their feeling that an invasion and removal of Hussein would be a GOOD thing. Thanks, you guys.
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President Bush and his speech to the U.N. get what amounts to a British rave review in the Comment section of The Times:
�What had been presented as a personal challenge to George W. Bush ended as a political challenge to his audience at the United Nations. In a calm and convincing address the President deftly turned the tables on his critics. �
Deft. DEFT!!! That�s got to be the first time that the word has been applied to �The Cowboy.� Maybe the rest of Europe will also see that the President isn�t a one-dimensional rube. Well, everybody but the French, anyway. Vive la Etats-Unis, you little froggies. (And if I massacred the spelling, suck it up.)
“The charge sheet he issued against Iraq, and the manner in which that indictment was served, means that the Security Council really does now need to meet its obligations. This was openly acknowledged by Kofi Annan in his remarks to the General Assembly. The alternative would be for the UN, as Churchill once damned the Baldwin Government, to �decide only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.�
Winston Churchill. WINSTON CHURCHILL!!! George Bush�s hero, and the writer sees a parallel to the President. Georgie�s day will be made if he sees this one.
I didn�t vote for him the first time, maybe I will the second go-round.
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President Bush, could we add Mugabe to that Axis of Evil list? In keeping with your alliteration, maybe we could re-name the four as the Compass of Corruption or, using my very limited German, the Vier of Fear. Mugabe is having a grand old time attacking Tony Blair at every social event � the United Nations, the South Africa environmental conference. So many stupid useless meetings, so little time.
It�s been a rough week for Mugabe, having to fight on two fronts. On one hand, his thugs need to keep shooting at white farmers and burning their children’s pet horse alive, and, on the other, beat up and threaten to kill every opposition candidate that tries to register. Well, Mr. Mugabe, if this is how your supporters act, maybe Mr. Blair should follow your demand and let you keep Zimbabwe. He could move all the white farmers out for the five or so years it will take for you to kill all of your constituents with Aids or starvation, then return them once you�ve decimated your population. Hey, how do the regular citizens in your country feel about the fact you�re giving the stolen, er, abandoned farms to your cronies? Or haven�t you let that cat out of the bag yet? Maybe after the �free� election.
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According to MEMRI the Arab media is using the likes of David Duke and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy as their western “experts.” MEMRI has updated thier report of earlier this year. It makes for very disturbing reading.
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Happy Friday the 13th! A happy 70th goes out to my father as well. I am sorry I cannot be in Maine to celebrate with you.
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Sureal moment of the day: when I reloaded Dodgeblogium I got something called The Daily Kiss. I then used Dodgeblog.com and it worked fine. For a moment, I thought I might have been hacked. Anyone else had this odd experience?
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A few more reviews on the ye olde Blogcritics from yours truly. It was such a shame to have them sitting unseen over on DarkerthanDark. I am thinking of retiring DtD to the ether. Will anyone plead for its existence?
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