There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty:

soap, ballot, jury, ammo.

Use in that order. Starting now.

Phil "FatPhil" Carmody's Soapbox

You don't have permission to access this server. However, Iraqis are still dying because of American aggression - ask yourself, which is the more important issue?

If you believe that you are being inappropriately blocked, please try working your way through the embryonic "Bush/Iraq General Knowledge Quiz" maze.

In order to prevent any more overly-sheltered 12-year-olds throwing up on viewing this page, there's no more picture of an Iraqi 11-year-old with a head-sized hole blown out of her skull by the US military, and instead this message of tranquility and peace: Every time you bomb Iraq a kitten dies. Maybe some people too.

Iraqi Civilian Body Count www.iraqbodycount.org
(figures here)

I've tried to limit this embargo to the US, UK, and Australia, Denmark, and other countries that have indicated that they support the US's war on Iraq. However, I may have ballsed up.

The embargo is based on IP address. And basically works on the principle that you're blocked until I can verify that you shouldn't be. I'm using Class-A/B/C lists, and tools such as whois/traceroute/dig to work out where people are. There will be innocents harmed by this, alas, but I'm trying to add netblocks to my access lists where possible. Currently my block's precision is no less accurate than the US military's, but they can be forgiven, as we know American geography isn't too good. Maybe it would be better if US intelligence understood metric (original image copyright the CIA, of course). I'm not calling the US's expertise into question - see their experts are always right!

Sorry for being an arsehole about this, but how else can I express my utter contempt for the illegal and immoral actions of a few countries who have become too big for their boots and think that they run the world now? I hope you understand.

Explicitly - I in no way wish to restrict the Canadians, French, Belgians, and Germans, and people from other countries who have kept their sense of perspective, from viewing this site.

Are you not one of the Bush-appeasing "coalition of the willing"?

If so, let me know, and I'll unblock you. I'm hoping that my access filters are more accurate than some of the attacks going on in Iraq presently.
Note - this won't actually magically enable anything, but I'll look down my logs, and it's easier to double-check with the traceroutes etc. if you indicate what region you're in. People or robots that wildly click on random links will be ignored, but note that I'm not too fussy about how you describe your region - those in Kaliningrad can be Northern or Eastern Europe, for example.
Canada ; Central America ; South America ; Western Europe ; Northern Europe ; Eastern Europe ; Pacific Asia ; Other Asia ; Oceania ; Africa ; Other

The Bush Appeasers:

These are the guys and gals I'm trying to propagate my point to:
The US,
Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Hungary, Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Portugal,
Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras,
Afghanistan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, Mongolia,
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda,
Australia, the Philippines, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Palau, Micronesia,
Singapore, South Korea, Japan.

Quickie - How many of the above are currently receiving handouts from the US? (Answered partially below.)

Quickie 2 - How many of the above regularly abuse human rights, according to the US Department of State. (clue - lots.)

Of course, not all Americans are pro-war, nor all Brits, nor all Australians, nor all Poles, etc. If you fall into that category (and it sounds like it's most of the world) and you want to see these pages, then please just drop me a mail, and smething like a URL to photos of you on a protest march (I can link to them from my protest page if you like). Or show me your web-page where you make a public stand against the situation. I don't want you to try and persuade _me_ that you're against the war, I want you to persuade _others_. Just do something public, or mail/fax your MP/congressman, or similar. (Note - of the several dozen people who are exceptions to the block, not _one_ of them has actually sent me photos of himself/herself on a march - it's a metaphor.)

Note - this is how to _not_ get your netblock enabled:

68.105.156.230 - - [19/Mar/2003:09:45:57 +0200] "GET /hello-you-sir-must-be-a-moron HTTP/1.1" 302 226
68.105.156.230 - - [19/Mar/2003:09:46:31 +0200] "GET /not-liking-war-is-one-thing-but-denying-truth-is-another-you-pansy-what-are-you-french-or-something HTTP/1.1" 302 226

Thank you, sir. Have a nice day. I assume the above was what's known as "US diplomacy".

Thanks to Schlake (peek at 2001/09/24, 2002/07/01 and others), Jammy, Daraknor, Will Rose, Daniel Bergey (he manned the puppet!), Joe Baldwin, Daran, Bryan, Red Golpe, Glass Strider Jiong, Seth, David, Andy, Chris, Dave, Hugo, Raffi, Kim, Bob, David Z., John M., Maria "Majo", Robert, Ben N. and others for their positive feedback at being blocked! (In theory some/all should now be now unblocked.)


Views on the situation

newer stuff (N=Newsy, O=Opinion, I=Interview, H=Humour, L=Links, M=Miscellaneous, very roughly)
2004/07/10 (N) The news from Iraq is ... don't expect any news from Iraq. Censorship reigns, and freedom of expression is out of the window. Best of all, one of Saddam's former Baathist spies is in charge. (Though he's now a CIA glove-puppet, obviously.)
2004/06/22 (O) Harry Belafonte's acceptance speech upon receiving the 2004 Human Rights Award by Global Exchange in San Francisco.
2004/06/22 (N) National Lawyers Guild calls for prosecution of Bush under the War Crimes Act. The 2003 State of the Union address allegedly contained implicit admission
2004/06/03 (N) Leadership of a middle-eastern country? Simple - just grease a few palms in DC and NY Phil (not that story) says: This Iraq leadership issue is unsurprisingly a total farce. Has the latter half of the 20th century in Central America been forgotten about? Or do (the decision-making) Americans deliberately choose not to learn from history?
2004/05/25 (N) US guards beat the shit out of US MP who was posing as a detainee at Guantanamo as part of an exercise. To see if detainees have the shit beaten out of them? If so, the exercise was a complete success. Hoorah for the US.
2004/05/24 (O) Thomas Greene bashes Bush and the US's concept of "intelligence" with a big, very very blunt object. Bravo Thomas.
2004/05/20 (O) George Soros: "Victims Turning Perpetrators" His address to those graduating from the Columbia School of International & Public Affairs.
2004/05/20 (O) "I honestly feel that what we're doing is wrong over here. We're committing genocide." Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey.
2004/05/19 (N) NYTimes op-ed on the "weapons find" in Iraq. Superbly measured. Anyone know who wrote it?.
2004/05/19 (N) Brief BBC report on Michael Berg's heart-felt message to the Stop the War Coalition. (Reproduced without permission.)
2004/05/12 (N) [Nick Berg's father] blamed the Bush administration for creating circumstances that led to his son's death. A tidbit not seen in any US news source yet (the BBC also mentions it, but the 20 top story carrying sites according to google news don't).
2004/05/10 (N) A non-sensationalist report on the human rights abuses taking place at the hands of US soldiers in the prisons in Iraq. Largely compiled by members of the Christian Peacemaker Team.
2004/05/03 (N) A bit more fact-filled report on the US Iraqi-abuse photos. (Personally, I think the UK photos are pretty poor fakes. However, given that the reports of abuse predate those photos, I suspect that the UK troops are not blame free.)
2004/04/25 (O) In Bushworld... (originally Maureen Dowd's NY Times column.)
2004/04/19 (N) Tales of Spanish troops shooting at pilgims near mosques. Yes, yes, you were just helping them reach heaven quicker...
2004/04/17 (O) Every claim by Osama bin Laden ... will now have been proved true ... Thanks to G.W.B, that is. (Fisk)
2004/04/16 (M) The 2004 Jefferson Muzzle awards unsurprisingly contain several Iraq war references. The muzzles are awarded to those who show flagrant disregard to First Amendment principles.
2004/04/09 (N) The unification of Iraq - Sunni and Shiite sharing food, and even donated blood. And a common view of the occupying US forces, of course. And it ain't positive.
2004/04/09 (N) Iraq - the Mercenary War? Yahoos from 3 continents, by the sound of it, and no respect in either direction, it seems.
2004/04/08 (N) The old "kill all the bad guys in the building by picking a building with no bad guys in" trick. Technically, and mathematically, and of course vacuously, that could be called a success. Lots, as you may guess, of innocents have been added to the death-toll. The targetting of a Mosque was particularly well-chosen. Sheesh. Coooool, what's G-13 do?
2004/04/08 (N) Fisk on a tale of the US doing one more "play around with the labels" trick. This time, however, they're attaching the label "PoW" to one Saddam Hussein, to get away with more.
2004/03/14 (N) "After a while, we stopped asking for human rights - we wanted animal rights." A report from Guantanamo.
2004/02/21 (N) US press hypocrisy in its purest form - NYT entirely forgets it was oneof the parties propagating the WMD lies.
2004/02/21 (N) US/UK Spy operations put spanner in UN peace plan.
2004/02/21 (N) Perle accidentally forgot to declare $3M worth of bonuses. And remember - Bush wants your tax dollars to pay for rebuilding the bombsite he made of Iraq, with Perle's support.
2004/02/21 (O) More than 500 US troops dead, and their loved-ones' questions still go unanswered.
2004/02/21 (N) Wolfovitz: "I'm not sure even now that I would say Iraq had something to do with it". That's the same Wolfovitz who did say that Iraq waslinked to Al Qaeda, if only "for bureaucratic reasons".
2004/02/21 (N) Bush's reporting of US nucular power plant plans being found in Afghanistan were technical inexactitudes. Or lies, if you'd prefer.
2004/01/01 (N) Newly declassified British documents indicate US wanted to invade the middle-east for oil even back in the 70s
2003/12/18 (N) Bush's refusal of access to lawyers for the Guantanamo Bay detainees illegal.
2003/12/18 (N) Bush's "enemy combatant" classification of Jose Padilla illegal, according to 2nd circuit federal appeals court.
2003/12/11 (H) Meat the Press! by Terry Bisson. (Bisson has a thing with meat obviously!)
2003/12/10 (N) Participate militarily, and you'll share the spoils. Quid Pro Quo, Clarice. Now's not a time for the US to lose face...
2003/12/08 (N) Barbed wire, demolishing houses, curfews, arresting innocent family members in order to persuade others to turn themselves in - is this Palestine or Iraq?. "This fence is here for your protection ... Do not approach ... or you will be shot." Ahhh, OK, _that_ kind of protection. That's just great. Didn't the US citizens feel that they needed protection too? Maybe someone would like to return the favour.
2003/12/07 (N) Not really news, just the US bombing and killing more children
2003/11/27 (N) Tales of Paramilitaries, Embedded Journalists and Illegal Protests. Yup, you guessed it - in Miami, USA.
2003/11/23 (N) Rotten.com's history of the claims regarding Saddam's non-existant WMD. Thank goodness Congress has as yet not passed any law abridging their freedom of speech, or of the press.
2003/11/21 (N) US subcontracting torture to overseas countries.
2003/11/19 (N) Attacks will continue until day the Americans leave, says report The pinacle of US intelligence has dozens of dog bites man insights.
2003/11/12 (O) George Monbiot - "Britain and the US did everything to avoid a peaceful solution ...".
2003/11/09 (N) US intelligence officials, diplomats and former pentagon officials lambast Bush's distortion of the case for war.
2003/11/09 (O) 'No president has lied so badly and so often and so demonstrably'.
2003/11/08 (N) Jessica Lynch condems US military and Pentagon for use of her for propaganda purposes.
2003/10/16 (O) The Boy Who Cried Iraq. A bit like Chomsky for the masses. Get yourself a cup of tea, and have a read.
(N) On "I have been serving in Iraq for over five months now" form letters. If only there were more newspapers more like Washington (state)'s The Olympian.
(N) US selling bio-weapons-capable labs to Philippines, Egypt, and just about anybody. Supplying terrorists, eh? Does that mean the US should bomb itself into oblivion?
(O) After the War Was Over, Everybody Sat Down and Lied. A report by UN journalist Ian Williams.
(N) No WoMD found in Iraq according to a Bush administration source ``not even unearthed "minute amounts of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons material"''
(N) US citizen faces jail for being part of the "human shield".
(N) Only 13% of US young adults can find Iraq on the map.
(O) On Thomas Friedman's insistance that democracy is the wrong thing to bring to Iraq. Ironic, isn't it?
(O) CNN - Censored News Network.
(N) Blix criticises UK's Iraq dossier Because it was as convinving as "Saddam weighs the same as a duck - burn him".
(N) Whilst appearing to be a story about "US troops 'killed in Iraq attack'", I recommend counting the number of 'accidental' Iraqi deaths at the hands of the US that it mentions.
(O) Fisk - Secret slaughter by night, lies and blind eyes by day
(O) $304 please, and $304 from your wife, and $304 from each of your children. Where else do you think Bush's $87bn comes from?
(N) Fisk - Americans ambushed their own Iraqi policemen.
(O) Fisk - Not since the Second World War have we seen folly on this scale.
(O) Iraq: Creating a Threat Where None Existed
(O) Fisk - Who hates to say "I told you so"
(O) Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President
(N) John Pilger, and the reports and video footage that Bush & Blair wouldn't want you to see
(O) Full transcript of Chris Hedges' speach at Rockford College at the graduation day yup, from May, but still worth a read now.
(O) Weapons of Mass Destruction revisted
(N) Occupiers halt elections in Iraq.

Send me interesting links if you have any!


Old stuff:
(N) UK's "The Independent" broadsheet (source for many of the below)
(N) UK's "The Guardian" broadsheet (source for many of the below)
(N) (more like anti-news!) The 13 Myths about the case of war in Iraq
(O) John Pilger's articles
(L) The Guardian's Anti-War links page
(O) Greenpeace insight
(H) The Onion's scoop on "Gulf War II : The Vengeance"
(H) The cut and thrust of debate - Onion style
(O) Mark Steel's Independent column
(N) Robert Fisk's on-the-scene report
(N) Robert Fisk's on-the-scene outrage
(H) Mark Fiore's Flash animations (local copies of the best ones)
(H) The Warmonger argues with the Peacenik.
(O) One of my mates' views
(N) MAoB provide translations of Al Jazeera (who the US want silenced).
(O) Christopher Layne's LA Weekly article, "The Post-Saddam Quagmire : A view from the right".
(O) The Guardian on flag semiotics
(O) Terry Jones' letter in the Observer
(N) Who's firing at whom?
(O) Patrick Nielsen Hayden's blog - US vs. UK approach to Iraq
(O) "If [the US] elected a monkey..."
(O) "Precision bombing", and "innocence"
(N) The Geneva Conventions, US hypocrisy (or this link)
(O) The "Coalition", a motley crue indeed
(O) John Pilger - 6 days of shame
(O) Mark Steel: win them over - dress as clowns?
(N) Middle-Ages-style siege in Basra - that's nice.
(O) The Coalition of the Willing - who are they?
(O) Spiked Online - How did we get from 9/11 to here?
(N) Defiance - a matter of Arab pride
(N) ElectronicIraq - 1st-hand news and opinion
(O) Thank You Bush!
(O) Cook - Bring The Boys Back Home.
(N) Such a war has already been simulated with interesting outcomes...
(O) NY Times - Antiwar = Civility Over Confrontation.
(O) Fisk - Missile kills 62 innocents, US claim it was Iraqi, the serial number on it begs to differ.
(O) Why? So much spin that even Bush and Blair can't help contradicting themselves (a.k.a. telling downright lies, and being found out).
(O) US media approve of bombing TV stations, how ironic.
(N) Censorship in 'The Land of the Free' ™.
(N) Rumsfield vs. Pentagon on how well precision warfare would work.
(O) Noam Chomsky - Chomsky on War, at ZNet.
(H) The Dubya War Glossary - what do they really mean?
(O) US troops on drugs?
(O) Monbiot - It will end in disaster
(O) Another "Facts and myths about Iraq war" page.
(O) Mo Mowlem - Bomb 'em all... to save face. Does no-one remember "we had to destroy the town to save it."?
(O) Peter Arnett on the media aspect P.A. was probably the one who made the "we had to destroy the town to save it" comment well known.
(N) Surprise, surprise, the US military lied about the missile killing 62 in the market. (See Fisk above).
(O) Meta-news - /Sun/ journalist has principles, so quits.
(H) I should not be allowed to say the following things about America.
(N) Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio's statement to the house - Stop This War Now.
(O) Chomsky: Iraq is a trial run.
(O) Mark Steel - The minute it's made up you'll hear about it.
(N) US Army's military police beat up Portuguese journalists.
(N) Iraq expels Al Jazeera reporters.
(H) How Microsoft are helping the US war effort - red white and blue screens of death.
(N) Canadian Red Cross tell a horribly morbid story of civilian casualties.
(O) When Hoon implies Fisk is telling porkies, Fisk responds (See 'Surprise Surprise...' above).
(M) Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) - The The
(O) Muriel Gray - Let's not talk about the war. Just for this week.
(H) Will Durst - What they say / what they mean.
(O) John Pilger's /Independent/ column - on racism, on Nuremberg, and on us.
(N) Congratulations, USA, Cairo's Grand Imam has permitted, even welcomed, suicide attacks against you. Hands up who's surprised...
(N) Operation /Piss Off the Planet/ going well. When in doubt, shoot Russian diplomats.
(O) On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, 1849.
(N) International Federation of Journalists protests against "unacceptable discrimination".
(N) Council of Europe's draft statement on Iraq - War "not justified"
(O) George Galloway - Blair wants free speech in Iraq, but not in Britain.
(N) After being Executioner, the US now wants to be Judge and Jury too. UN not welcome.
(N) UK Defence Secretary Hoon - US and UK'll bomb who the heck we like when we like (I paraphrase, of course).
(O) Fisk - More eye-witness tales of death and destruction. The US's Target of the Day - journalists, it seems, particularly Reuters and AlJazeera.
(O) A letter to an MP - covers many issues.
(O) The Extinction Level Event.
(O) Conversation with a Daily Mail columnist.
(?) Evidence of media bias - the internal memos they didn't want you to see!!! (yup, that's 2 links. (Probably ;-) ) not real, but that makes them pretty cutting satire.)
(N) Undersecretary of State Bolton threatens Iran, Syria and N. Korea
(N) Bodies - What Bodies? (re. the 1991 Gulf War - cynics are guessing that these bodies could be dug up and blamed on Saddam.)
(N) Is the war over - do suicide bombers count or not?
(H) New - Freedom TV!
(O) Peacenik/warnik point/counterpoint.
(N) How many "jubilant Iraqis" pulled down SH's statue?
(N) ... and who were they?
(N) and how much of a "coincidence" was it that the flag draped over the statue was the flag flying outside the Pentagon on Sept 11. What's the current US propaganda factory's view on Iraq and Sept. 11? Are they connected or not? We hang on your every word, oh perveyor of finest quality American shit. (sic)
(O) George Bush is closer to Genghis Khan than Lenin is to Hitler. Rumsfeld demonstrates complete ignorance of history.
(N) "Liberated" from any kind of policing. US troops idly let looters run riot despite formal responsibility to prevent it.
(H) Let us not underestimate Rumsfeld - he's a poet!
(H) Freedom TV, Episode 2!
(N) "Coallition" troops violate another Geneva Convention, #4 this time.
(N) Rumsfeld - "...freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things" So _this_ is what you wanted to bring from the US to the Iraqis? Why?
(O) Are tyrants shocked, awed or stocking up on nukes?
(N) Blix intimates that the US/UK planned the war well in advance, and _fabricated_ evidence against Iraq
(N) Bush - "it'll take time to restore chaos". Tell me that there isn't enough to get him sectioned?
(O) On Civilisation.
(O) Cheering crowds don't make an unjust war right.
(O) A comparison of Syria and Israel.
(O) Mourning Iraq by Carol Norris.
(O) A conspiracy to kill independent media?
(N) RS on DU - Scientists urge shell clear-up to protect civilians
(O) Fisk - not liberation but a new colonial oppression.
(N) British Welcomed in Baghdad! Check the date...
(N) (of a sort) Draw your own conclusions, an interesting change of perspective.
(N) UK Newspaper clumsily fakes photos. If you want more professional photoshopping of images try "photoshop phriday" on somethingawful.com, or try Stalin's propagandists from last century.
(O) Actor Tim Robbins' April 15th speech to the National Press Club.
(I) CNN's Aaron Brown trying to stick up for his and CNN's policy regarding coverage of anti-war issues.
(O) Some US Bush backers threaten World Health Organisation funding...
(O) Damn liberals and their incessant "big picture" crapola. Clearly, God loves America more than anyone.
(O) A source for Fisk articles now the Indy has started charging for access to them.
(O) Pilger - The corruption of journalism
(N) Norgwegian reporter witnesses more GC-flouting treatment of Iraqis at US hands (yeah, in Norwegian, sorry. Dagbladet makes a lot more sense than AlJazeera though!)
(I) Robert Fisk, interviewed by Democracy Now
(O) The Toronto Star's Linda Diebel, facts, lies, success ad failure - and who's doing what.
(N) Protesters get shot, 15 elevated to previously unknown states of 'freedom'. Freedom from life, that is.
(O) 13-year old from Maine speaking more sense than most US politicians.
(O) Terry Jones - If fish can feel pain, them maybe Iraqi children can too.
(O) A comment on the policing of the peace camp at Fairford.
(N) US insiders say Iraq has no WMDs. In other news, Bush is still spouting the same old lies.
(O) I detest American imperialism, American infantilism, and American triumphalism about victories it didn't even win. Daily Telegraph comment by Margaret Drabble.
(N) If irresponsible states shouldn't have them, then why is the US allowed to increase its nuclear arsenal?.
(N) And if you still haven't found evidence of Iraq's weapons, turn to bribery, that always works.
(N) On the other hand you could just give up.
(N) In the mean time, Iraqis are on the brink of famine.
(N) More news on the WMD discoveries - i.e. a reiteration that there haven't been any.
(N) You can trust the New York Times for accurate reportage, honestly. Or at least you can now.
(N) US Army used blanks to rescue Private Lynch, just like a Hollywood movie. Oh, this was after they had attacked the ambulance that was trying to deliver her to the US 2 days earlier (the ambulance obsiously retreated).
(N) UK media is a sorry state - John Pilger's 1st person perspective
(N) US not keeping its promises regarding the previous 'liberation'.
(N) Iraq to be controlled by US and UK indefinitely. (needs free registration) Yes, this does go back on what they said in the past, but Bush and Blair lying is not really news any more.
(O) To those who think that Friedman makes sense, this might pop that bubble. I'd like to dedicate this link to George Woltman.
(N) US troops vandalising the ancientcity of Ur?
(N) Iraqi (and Saudi) PoWs, many of whom were actually civilians, accuse US and UK of torture.
(O) Guardian explains the canvas on which the US's Ann Coulter and other right wing columninsts paint.
(I) Japan Today interviews Michael Moore.
(M) Michael Moore's own website.
(N) Ari Fleisher resigns. Is it just me being cynical, or does this immediately absolve Bush of anything he can now blame on Fleisher (such as some of the lies)?
(N) UK, like the US, demonstrating that nuclear weapons are addictive - gotta have more!
(N) Story of a body-washer, who will tell you how accurate US bombing was
(N) Uranium levels exceptionally high in previous victims of US agression.
(N) Goldsmith - Iraq occupation illegal without UN sanction. (Independent's view here.)
(N) Forcing a regime change is nothing new, we've done it before...
(N) Follow-up on the Uranium levels - this is U236, this is _not_ natural uranium, it's man-made. Pretty much only formed by neutron capture by U235 in a Uranium reactor, which limits the number of sources.
(N) I will exercise my own tiny act of disobedience - Dr. Daniel Amit of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
(O) Maureen Dowd (NYT) highlights that Rumsfeld is now posturing bellicosely in the direction of Iran. Oh joy, I enjoyed the last war so much, let's have another!
(O) Tony Blair vowed that the West would not walk away from Afghanistan. Read otherwise. Tony Blair lied yet again.
(O) Pilger - Britain supports terrorism.
(N) US hypocrisy. WoMDs found in Maryland.
(N) UK's biggest ever intelligence failure - or just a cold calculated lie?
(N) If you're going to torture Iraqis, don't take photos, and try to get them processed in your local Boots! (or wherever, the story doesn't mention the actual outlet, yup, that's 2 links).
(N) No court martial for the two UK soldiers that refused to fight, questioning the law's legality.
(I) Fisk - On covering the middle-east for several decades.
(N) Not even Straw and Powell believed the lies they were telling.
(O) Sean Penn takes out a full page advert in the NYT in order to criticise Bush et al. Grab a copy off Sean's site.
(I) Democracy Now's interviews with Gore Vidal, Arundhati Roy, Chris Hedges.
(N) Soundbites from the major players over the last year, statements supposedly of 'fact' about Saddam's WoMD.
(N) Blair to be brought before the International Criminal Court as a war criminal by the Greek Bar Association.
(O) Fisk - American "liberation" has become synonymous with anarchy.

(N) Blair says "It is important that if people actually have evidence they produce it." Mr Blair - that is precisely what we've been requiring all along - and it's you that has failed to deliver.
(N) No. 10 'doctored' Iraq dossier.
(O) This letter puts a UK MP on the spot regarding many old and new issues, little wriggle-space permitted. From the same pen as before - this guy needs a column in a newspaper!
(O) Arundhati Roy - "The U.S. invasion of Iraq was perhaps the most cowardly war ever fought in history."
(O) Some views on the mobile labs found in Iraq as "evidence" of Bio weapons production.

(I) Chomsky interviewed on Radio Netherlands' "Amesterdam Forum" interactive discussion. Subtitled "Does The Usa Intend To Dominate The Whole World By Force?".
(O) "I beseech you, Mr. Bush" - but be careful for what you ask, lest you receive.
(O) SF Chronicle - Women Losing Freedoms in Chaos of Post-war Iraq
(N) Howard knew Bush was lying - Demonstration of A lack of intelligence.
(O) John Pilger - More on Blair and Bush's dossier of lies
(M) Political Compass - where do you stand?

Spooky!

Reproduced without the authors' permission, but freely available from archives of the alt.anagrams newsgroup.

Donald Henry Rumsfeld =
Fondly handles murder. (David Bourke)
Formally end hundreds. (Mick Tully)

Coalition forces =
Fast oil coercion. (Mick Tully)

Richard Perle =
Richer pedlar. (Paul Pan)

Want to rant - mail "fatpuzzles" at "yahoo.co.uk".