More mild ranting
More MPs than expected revolted over Iraq during yesterdays vote on the war. But for me the most telling part was the fact that Tony Blair didn’t even bother sticking around for the debate. He came along, made his speech, answered a few questions, then buggered off. Dozens of experienced politicians, on both sides of the fence, making well-reasoned arguments and having one of the most important parliamentary debates in years, and our Prime Minister isn’t even prepared to listen for a few hours? No, Blair’s made up his mind, no discussion, he’s right, anyone that disagrees is wrong. That’s it. What a shit.
Continuing tonight’s theme of contempt, it seems the US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, was on the board of technology giant ABB when it won a deal to supply North Korea with two nuclear power plants.
And it seems that increasing numbers of Americans are coming to European news web sites in search of the broader picture:
The American public is apparently turning away from the mostly US-centric American media in search of unbiased reporting and other points of views. Much of the US media’s reaction to France and Germany’s intransigence on the Iraqi war issue has verged on the xenophobic, even in the so-called ‘respectable’ press. Some reporting has verged on the hysterical - one US news web site, NewsMax.com, recently captioned a photograph of young German anti-war protesters as “Hitler’s children”.
On a lighter note, during a Whitehouse press briefing, Ari Fleischer indignantly denied that the US was trying to buy the votes of the small, temporary members on the UN Security Council. The Whitehouse spokesman was laughed out of the room…!
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