Bug anniversary day today. No not that other one, but the fifth anniversary of the US led invasion of Iraq.
Watched a little Sky News today, and was sort of chuckling when they brought on a Fox News ("Fair and balanced(TM)") correspondent in Baghdad. Surprised me a little though. A tacit admittance that while the current violence levels in Baghdad were down compared with 2005/2006, not only was this much worse than under Saddam, even though he was a dictator, but the bigger surprise was that she mentioned it might NOT be to do with "the surge", but more about certain militia's observing a ceasefire.
Don't know about you, but under the previous Fox News terms, that reporter probably committed treason by saying that.
In other news, Bush pledged [url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5izKZq1GWbhgVxwahs2y-GF2atQKw]no permanent bases[/url] in Iraq, while Dick Cheney was drawing up blueprints for a formal agreement for US troops to [url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5631346.html]stay in Iraq[/url]. Though not permanently. (Why would they occupy the place for millennia when the oil will run out in decades?)
Now onto the more (most?) important issue: oil. Apparently it is [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7397235]flowing faster, but not fast enough[/url].
What about the people? Who cares! we gave them democracy. It has a [url=http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/79779/]few hickups[/url] here and there, but they should be grateful.
