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The butterfly effect, as it applies to the biggest failure of British foreign policy since Suez
Iraq dossier WMD evidence came from a taxi driver. Worse, not the taxi driver himself but from a conversation he overheard in the back of his cab one day on the Jordanian border.
And I marched through London twice, for this? -
Abu Ghraib
Another occasion to use this icon, lest we forget. I expect the photos will be leaked eventually, anyway. -
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There's a belief that the American/British invasion of Iraq, known as 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', was originally called 'Operation Iraqi Liberation', but was changed' after someone pointed out how uncomfortably revealing the acronym is. Currently the only official source for this urban legend seems to be this White House page, which does mention " ( Read more... ) -
When you're in a hole, it's time to stop digging
I'm using this icon for the last time now that it's past its sell-by date twice over: Blair is now long gone, and British troops yesterday began their pull-out of Basra, at a cost of 168 lives.
According to a CNN count, since March 2003 there have been 4,040 coalition deaths: 3,742 Americans, 2 Australians, 168 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 ( Read more... )
