If you wanted to characterise the US public reaction of the Iraq War, then only a washboard rendition of Dazed and Confused would cover it, writes Guy Rundle.
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Earth Hour … from Tampa refugee to Kiwi spelling whiz … Mark Latham … The Macquarie infrastructure model is dead … Justine Elliot … JP Morgan’s lawyers …
We need to have a chat about the camel spider
There is a solpugid in Iraq…
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Babcock & Brown … Mark Latham … China, Tibet and the Olympics … the hermaphrodic Nats/Libs merger … Iraq … NSW Cabinet …
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Tibet or not Tibet? … bagging plastic bags … the real butchers of Iraq … ocean acidity … Toohey’s Walkley dummy spit …
Sheridan, Bolt and Co: the real butchers of Iraq
In 2003, many, many people forecast the coming disaster in Iraq with a fair degree of accuracy. Andrew Bolt and Greg Sheridan weren’t among them, writes Jeff Sparrow.
US08 media wrap: McCain’s Iraq mission
Republican Presidential contender John McCain has touched down in Iraq for the eighth time, writes Sophie Black.
US08: Iraq collapsing, Bear Stearns collapses
So as with the Iraq war, goes the economy. The collapse of Bear Stearns – for that is what it is – has, in a flash, taken the economic crisis from the moral sphere into the operational, writes Guy Rundle.
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Apology to Mr Anthony Otto … Rudd’s binge crusade … moonlighting MPs … checking out at the Haven Hostel … carers and politics … the 2020 summit … Iraq and McCain …
US08: Baghdad’s troubles are McCain’s
McCain is crossing his fingers and hoping that the surge can hold until after November 4, 2008, writes Guy Rundle.
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Where’s the war in this election campaign?
Despite this election’s outward appearance, Australia is a nation at war. Surely that demands serious answers and merits significant navel-gazing from both the electorate and the electoral aspirants, writes GetUp’s Ed Coper.
Brown signals an end to European integration
The announcement that the proposed EU Constitution “Treaty” version would be ratified by UK parliament rather than by public referendum was the real story to come out of this week’s Labour Party conference.
Blackwater puts Iraq’s cast of unsavoury charactors in the spotlight
The Iraq horror show rolls on and the atrocity du jour — involving private contractors from the sinister Blackwater agency — epitomises what we’ve done to Iraq, writes Jeff Sparrow.
‘Bringing some of our troops home’ … Bush begins US exit
In the life of all free nations, there come moments that decide the direction of a country and reveal the character of its people. We are now at such a moment … President Bush addresses the nation on Iraq.
General Petraeus tells it like it is?
General David Petraeus’ ‘landmark’ Iraq surge testimony, expected to hail a ‘turning point’ in war policy, was mundane and limited according to the sceptical bulk of the world media today.
Iraq: it’s Vietnam without the communists
The analogy between Iraq and Vietnam has mostly been the province of the anti-war side. Opponents of both wars used the same mix of moral and practical considerations, arguments that have substantially been borne out by the facts.
Howard shows Iraqis how to do chutzpah
The word ‘chutzpah’ scarcely covers John Howard’s most recent intervention in Iraq, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Oh shoot, I’ve lost ma guns
America has lost Iraq. Not necessarily in a helicopters-taking-off-from-the-embassy way (though that scenario seems to be proceeding apace) but in the more prosaic now-where-did-I-put-my-car-keys sense. Oops, says Jeff Sparrow.
Sulkyroos ruing their lost holidays
They came, they saw, they got conquered. That will be the tale of the Asian Cup for the Socceroos unless they can outplay Thailand tonight, writes Francis Leach.
Spinning Iraq takes a magical turn
The worse things get for the Coalition of the Willing in the not-so-new Middle-East, the more its most vociferous Australian supporters seem to be subjected to bouts of magical thinking, whereby merely saying will make it so, writes Guy Rundle.
Henry Thornton: it was oil. Get over it
Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. Of course Iraq is about Oil. Always, was - always will be. If the oil was in Africa instead of the Middle East, we never would have heard of Kuwait, Iraq or Iran unless we delved into the pages of exotic coffee table books and obscure Lonely Planet issues.
Security begins at home
Few prime ministerial policy statements are so comprehensively previewed in the press as the defence directions John Howard is outlining today. Perhaps this is all to do with homeland defence – or home turf defence.
The Iraq backflip theory takes a blow
Remember how the Howard government’s WorkChoices backflip worked earlier this year? First, a prominent newspaper story saying that a policy switch was being planned. Then a prompt government denial. Wait a couple of weeks, then the announcement of pretty much what the original story had alleged.
The terror script changes
Australian police are continuing to question the Gold Coast Hospital registrar over the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow, but the usual terror script isn’t being followed. The dynamics are different.
