John Moore | November 23, 2003
Zeyad, blogger of Healing Iraq writes:
I was ashamed and depressed watching those brainwashed and deluded demonstrators in London carrying signs calling for abandoning Iraq and for an end to aggression. While I can understand people who hold peaceful principles against wars in general but nevertheless wish to see Iraq free and prosperous, I fail to [...]
John Moore | November 22, 2003
This article was posted to provide a focus for the inevitable Vietnam references that turn up in response to other Useful Fools articles. This is the place to fight out the old fight, if you are a reader of this blog.
Left wing opinion, widely reflected today in History courses and the media, is that the [...]
John Moore | November 22, 2003
Fox News TV Nov 22, 2003 1730Z
This report adds to this earlier one. It is entirely based on a report by Mansoor Ijaz, a Fox News analyst with intelligence connections in the Middle East. Whether his information is correct or not is left as an exercise for the reader!
Bin Laden and his deputy, Zawahiri separately [...]
John Moore | November 21, 2003
Rantingprofs asks whether, if the UN was put in charge of Iraq, they should work from Jordan or Cyprus… a nice bit of sarcasm.
John Moore | November 21, 2003
Someone else (Lilek) finally noticed that Salam Pax is an ungrateful wretch. Useful Fools pointed out Salam’s lousy attitude some time ago and found this response from Salam:
John Moore | November 20, 2003
Fox News foreign affairs and terrorism analyst, Mansoor Ijaz, has just made shocking claims regarding Iranian cooperation with Al Qaeda.
According to his own “unimpeachable sources,” people in the intelligence field inside Iran, Ijaz claims:
There are solid eyewitness accounts that both Bin Laden and second in command, Zawahiri, are in Iran.
Both are in disguise.
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John Moore | November 20, 2003
Blogger John Ray, who in real life is a widely published retired psychologist, deconstructs the theories of George Lakoff, who wrote a book purporting to explain Left/Right polarity of politics as Mother-oriented vs Father-oriented.
I’m not an expert, but that’s enough to set off my nonsense alarm. Anyway, take a peek at Dr. Ray’s latest deconstruction [...]
John Moore | November 20, 2003
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John Moore | November 16, 2003
According to scottsman.com, a new poll shows that one in three Britons are stupid:
More than one in three, 37%, said Mr Bush was “stupid” while 33% called him “incoherent”.
Only a minority saw positive characteristics in Mr Bush, with just 7% regarding him as a good world leader, 6% as articulate and 10% as intelligent.
What this [...]
John Moore | November 16, 2003
As the President goes to Britain, we will see massive coverage of anti-Bush, anti-US demonstrations sure to happen.
Meanwhile, the press entirely missed more important massive anti-terrorist demonstrations in Nassiriyah, Iraq… demonstrations a little closer to where the action really takes place, by the people actually affected by the situation.
As reported by the excellent new Baghdad [...]