Poland's president: "That [U.S. officials] deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true. We were taken for a ride." And yet, this giant walking spleen goes on to dismiss any talk of withdrawing "his" country's troops from Iraq, adding, "We cannot...
The anti-imperial Maccabees, that is. Thank goodness the Seleucids were made of sterner stuff than some modern-day Euroweenies we could mention. (Please don't send me any pro- or anti-Gibson screeds. I plan to remain one of the last dozen people in all...
WARSAW (AFP) - In a first sign of official criticism in Poland of the US-led invasion of Iraq, President Aleksander Kwasniewski said that his country had been "taken for a ride" about the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction in the strife-torn country....
In addition to spinning the organized Albanian pogrom of Serbs as "ethnic clashes," newspapers and wire services include in their reports a claim that Albanians rose up after three Albanian boys drowned in the Ibar river "because Serbs chased them with dogs." The...
How else can this be explained? ARBIL, Iraq, March 17 (Reuters) - Kurds are digging a huge trench around Arbil to help prevent attacks like last month's twin suicide bombings that killed 117 people in the northern Iraqi city, a Kurdish official said on Wednesday. "We...
Media reports coming from Kosovo uniformly refer to what is going on as "inter-ethnic violence" or "clashes." That is nothing but a transparent attempt to spin the situation and pin the blame anywhere but on the real culprits: Albanian mobs, organized and instigated...
Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Wednesday described the U.S. occupation of Iraq as "a fiasco" and suggested American voters should follow the example set by Spain and change their leadership by supporting Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts for...
Terrorist attacks in Europe have been numerous and ongoing, but the sheer scale of Spain's "3/11" and the concomittant carnage are new and shaking. Spain is frightened -- and lashing out. Remember how badly the US needed to act, to do something, practically anything,...
With love to George, Dick, Donald, Paul and Doug From Osama and the gang. Billmon is on a roll....
How refreshing. A politician displaying consistency and adherence to principle. In response to pressure from Bush " not to yield to pressure from al Qaeda by pulling their troops from the coalition occupying the turbulent country," Zapatero responds: "I will listen to...
