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....
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...
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...
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...
By now everyone even vaguely following events in Spain has undoubtedly noted the pro-Iraq war, conservative and Republican response to the ousting of Aznar's PP party in the recent election. It goes like this: Thanks, Spain! Due to your cowardice, every democracy must...
Better to be thought a fool... Than to blog something really stupid and remove all doubt. Johnathan Pearce at Samizdata asks: Well, if it were the case that no link existed[between Saddam and Al Qaeda], why did the statement purporting to be from al-Qaeda after the...
Canadians overwhelmingly believe US President George W. Bush lied to justify the Iraq war and their own government was wise to stay out of the conflict, according to a new poll published Monday. The poll, conducted by Ipsos-Reid for the newspaper the Globe and Mail...
What ever happened to the fly-paper theory of invading Iraq? I was wondering about that before the Madrid bombing, but it seems an even more pertinent question now. "The surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans,"...
Alan at SoutherlyBuster has added up the gains and losses by each party: PSOE +39 PP -35 CiU (Catalan centre-right) 10 -5 ERC (Catalan leftists) 8 +7 EAJ-PNV (Basque moderates) 7 deputies, -0 IU (left-socialist) 5 deputies -4 CC (Canarian centrists, would have entered...
