Kamm mistaken for Hitchens. Bet it happens all the time...
The attempt to whip up a stink about UN misappropriation of
Oil-for-food funds does look somewhat like a smokescreen (call it a
stink bomb) to cover up for US sanctions-busting. It also provides an
opportunity for unilateralists to undermine the legitimacy of the UN
itself. But they picked a poor target in Galloway, who's already won
two libel cases against newspapers who tried to smear him with
similarly ill-supported stuff...
But I take it for granted that the Republicans are lying shits. It's
not even worth pointing out, at least not in a climate where many
people (albeit a minority in the larger population) will automatically
agree with almost anything bad that's said about the US administration
irrespective of its evidential basis, or even plausibility. The reason
I focus on lying shits like Galloway instead is that they often get a
free pass in the same climate, just because the stripes of their
warpaint are pointing in the right direction.
Dominic
On 5/19/05, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Okay, so we shouldn't believe George.
>
> But should we believe anything the US Senators are saying? I don't
> really think so (except for the one who corrected him on being for the
> war when he wasn't)...
>
> I don't know anything about Galloway, really, over here, but I still
> enjoyed the whipping he gave those very far Right senators, & although
> Hitchens may be right about the larger situation, he has, for some odd
> reasons, committed so much to Bush & Blair's war he cannot see the
> complexities of the arguments against (as he once would have been able
> to, I think).
>
> Doug
> On 19-May-05, at 8:50 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
>
> > http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/now_he_tells_us.html
> >
> > I'm reminded of Bill Hicks' routine about the US selling arms to one
> > side in some conflict (might have been Iran-Iraq, might have been
> > something else) and information about that side's military capacity to
> > the other.
> >
> > Ah, Bill Hicks...
> >
> > Dominic
> >
> > --
> > // Alas, this comparison function can't be total:
> > // bottom is beyond comparison. - Oleg Kiselyov
> >
> >
> Douglas Barbour
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> There are places named for
> other places, ones where
> a word survives whatever happened
>
> which it once referred to. And there are
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> But nothing for the whole.
>
> Bill Manhire
>
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