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But those comments are a small minority of the comments you've left here. (Just as positive vibe comics like this…
>"Wow, talk about the pot calling the kettle black. :-p" Not quite true: I have occasionally posted comments praising your…
I think it may be more of the pot calling the teacup black. And a misunderstanding of what political cartoonists…
Wow, talk about the pot calling the kettle black. :-p
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Category Archives: Iraq
20 March 2008
The sun was shining as I sat down at the Cenotaph. Like most war memorials it looks like a giant penis. No-one else was there, but I was I knitted a few rows, and the mother of kids I used … Continue reading
Posted in International issues, Iraq
11 Comments
McCain is an idiot who doesn't know Sunni from Shiite.
The Iranian government is run by Shiites, and hates Sunnis. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni group, spends most of its time trying to kill as many Shiites as possible. Obviously, these groups are interchangeable, right? AMMAN, Jordan — Sen. John … Continue reading
Posted in Elections and politics, Iraq
38 Comments
G'Kar of Obsidian Wings, RIP
Although I don’t often link to it — its focus is mainstream politics and foreign policy, subjects I don’t often blog about — one of my most frequently read blogs is Obsidian Wings. One of the co-bloggers at Obsidian Wings, … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq
3 Comments
Once they even believed in the redistribution of wealth…
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that George Bush can’t open his mouth without saying something stupid: This has received attention from “Bush is stupid” commenters around the world. But in commenting on George Bush’s inability to communicate even the most … Continue reading
Posted in International issues, Iraq
10 Comments
Never before has the phrase "in its own way" been asked to carry so much weight
From a review of World War IV, the new book defending Bush’s Iraq policy, by Norman Podhoretz: The most astonishing part of “World War IV” is Podhoretz’s incessant use of violent imagery to describe American politics. Critics of the Iraq … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq
9 Comments
Who do you want to win?
My favourite blog at the moment is Lenin’s Tomb. Lenin has a great breadth of coverage – I’m always marking his posts saying to myself “I should write about strikes in South Africa” and then I never do. So I … Continue reading
Posted in International issues, Iraq
26 Comments
Is there a bottom line?
I feel almost like an anthropologist exploring unfathomable territory when I read about American electoral politics. No matters how much I read, it doesn’t make any sense to me. ((Not the actions of elected politicians that makes perfect sense, and … Continue reading
Posted in Elections and politics, Iraq
63 Comments
there’s no reason to suppose the people in this cartoon are conservative, for instance FWIW, my impressions and/or implicit biases…