Sunday, April 20, 2003

Iraq arms inquiry call rejected. A defence minister dismisses calls for an inquiry into whether security services misled MPs about Iraq's weapons. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] Misled them by plagiarizing a 12 year old paper from the Internet and changing some of the wording to make it inflamatory, for example? 3:44:59 PM    comment () Our friends, the German State. That the Russians should be such buffoons by backing Ba'athist Iraq long after it became clear they were going to suffer the full weight of an Anglo-American attack is remarkable. That the Germans should have done so is nothing less than astonishing. Just as in the Falklands War, when Britain's 'ally' France did not withdraw military assistance from Argentina until it no longer actually mattered, we have seen the European Union's two most influential nations,... [Samizdata.net] The nerve of those Russians and Germans, looking out for their own national interests. Who do they think they are--sovereign states? 2:10:57 PM    comment ()

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