So the Iranians blindfold prisoners.
How barbaric. We would never do anything like that.

So Blair is now stating publically that there was a connection between Saddam and Osama. I think he's lost it. Bush may lose the election because it's now obvious to everybody that there was no such connection. This is not the time to jump on that bandwaggon. Tony...?

Blair is finished.the Tories are not a threat so Labour can still stay in power after the next General Election.But they need to lose Blair He is now a liability.

Bush sought advice from lawyers in March 2003 on the legality of torturing suspects in the "war on terror". They told him that post 911, torture could be used with impunity in the effort to "save thousands of American lives". A few bad apples at Abu Ghraib?

The attempt to kill the mayor of Mosul today by a car bomb(15 dead)makes me wonder about the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan again. We keep hearing about the Shia and Sunni problems in the South, and very little about the Kurds (until a bomb goes off) It seems to me that the situation there, with it's connections with Iran Turkey and Syria, is potentially far more explosive than we are led to believe.

Wasn't Reagan the instigator of the covert war against the USSR in Afghanistan in the 1980's, which led directly to the emergence of Al Qaeda and therefore 911? Some legacy!

So Raygun finally had the good grace to fuck off. About time. That's the only "one for The Gipper" that has worked for me.

So Chalabi was working for the Iranians to initiate a "greater Shia" entity and Saudi Arabia is becoming a Salafi basket case ( NB the Saudi Shia minority see al-Sistani the Iraqi Shia supremo as their spiritual leader. Sounds like in that part of the world, you need to tread very carefully. Doh!