Category — Politics
Cheney says Iraq invasion was successful endeavour
Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani, right, sits next to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in his office in Baghdad
Over on the post “U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a ’successful endeavor’ in a visit to Iraq.
‘If you look back on those five years it has been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless successful endeavor … and it has been well worth the effort,’ Cheney told a news conference in Baghdad after meeting Iraqi leaders.
The Iraq war is a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign. As it enters it sixth year, the war has cost the U.S. economy $500 billion and seen nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis killed.
Shortly after Cheney spoke, a woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in a cafe in the southern holy Shi’ite city of Kerbala, killing 25 people and wounding 50, police and health officials said. Bombs in Baghdad killed four and wounded 13.
March 18, 2008 No Comments
Worth more than a thousand words …
An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs. — [REUTERS/Luiz Vasconcelos-A Critica/AE].
In ‘What makes a great picture?’ David Viggers of Reuters writes:
Images of heavy-handed oppression really don’t come much better than this - defenceless, screaming woman clutching naked child is shoved and beaten by faceless, armoured authority.”
March 17, 2008 1 Comment
Running mates you don’t need
Say no more.
March 12, 2008 No Comments
Bill Clinton endorses Obama
The past bites Bill Clinton on the arse with some advice for those who can’t decide between his wife and Barack Obama:
March 2, 2008 No Comments
Republican mashup
One of the best ads for the 2008 campaign:
February 12, 2008 No Comments
Yes we can …
Powerful.
February 5, 2008 No Comments
Say no more …
February 5, 2008 No Comments
Sorry State of the Union
January 31, 2008 No Comments
Clitoral Economics
Huffington Post’s Barbara Ehrenreich has a way with words:
“With all the talk about how to stimulate it, you’d think that the economy is a giant clitoris. Ben Bernanke may not employ this imagery, but the immediate challenge-and the issue bound to replace Iraq and immigration in the presidential race-is how best to get the economy engorged and throbbing again.
“It would be irresponsible to say much about Bush’s stimulus plan, the mere mention of which could be enough to send the Nikkei, the DAX, and the curiously named FTSE and Sensex tumbling into the crash zone again.
“In a typically regressive gesture, Bush proposed to hand out cash tax rebates-except to families earning less than $40,000 a year.
“This may qualify as an example of what Naomi Klein calls ‘disaster capitalism,’ in which any misfortune can be re-jiggered to the advantage of the affluent.”
January 23, 2008 No Comments
Driving pollsters crazy
January 13, 2008 1 Comment
