So Britain is planning on taking its troops out of Iraq:
British troops will start a major withdrawal from Iraq next May under detailed plans on military disengagement to be published next month, The Observer can reveal.
The document being drawn up by the British government and the US will be presented to the Iraqi parliament in […]

If we lived in a world without tears….
(Point seven is particularly worth reflecting on.)
…and in that vein, I have to mention this too…
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or your own lying eyes?
In other words, can’t wait to hear the ‘few bad apples’ brigade start trotting out their ‘isn’t as bad as Saddam’ apologetics.
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While Australian governments are busy installing ‘draconian‘ laws across the country to ‘protect’ us from a threat that even Minister Ruddock says is minimal (I mean, for f’s sake), actual terrorists are having a wild old time in Iraq:
A senior U.S. Marine commander said Monday that insurgents loyal to militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had […]

The premiers and the prime minister are getting together today to vogue on the terrorism issue. My view on all this is here and here.
Noteworthy, though, is the fact that it seems the PM is even going to try and wheedle his way out of a sunset clause:
JOHN HOWARD: We have to be careful […]

The last time the Swans were in the Grand Final was two days after my son was born, back in 1996. The last time they (in their original incarnation) won the Grand Final was the year my Mum was born (1933).
Well, until today.
Best. Grand. Final. Ever.
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Watching the news tonight and seeing the evacuation of the Gulf Coast in America in preparation for the next hurricane, and seeing the other measures put in place to deal with it, all of which seem reasonable and certainly infinitely better than those put in place for Katrina, does anyone now doubt that it was […]

The terrorists who bombed the London tube on 7/7 made a dummy run:
Grainy stills from closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras issued by police showed three of the four men assumed to be the attackers gathering together before heading into the capital on June 28.
“The implication is that they were possibly conducting reconnaissance on that day,” said […]

So you supported the invasion of Iraq, eh? And you defended every stupid argument put forward to justify it, and accused anyone who criticised it, or demanded more information about why we were doing it or how it was being planned of being objectively pro-Saddam? And since then, you’ve been rationalising every new […]

Arthur Chrenkoff gets it right in his final post:
I’m signing off, but the war goes on.
Unfortunately, that’s true, and the latest bit of bad news involves the British in Basra.
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