Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
This would bring out the usual howls from the likes of Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly about how celebs don't know anything if not for the fact that I suspect these guys, at least in their public persona, don't realize that what Portman said isn't true.
"Repeated abuses allegedly suffered by three British prisoners at the hands of US interrogators and guards in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba could amount to war crimes, the Red Cross said yesterday," Vikram Dodd and Tania Branigan write in an August 5 Reuters story.
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"Officially, the U.S. occupation of Iraq ended on June 28, 2004. But in reality, the United States is still in charge: Not only do 138,000 troops remain to control the streets, but the '100 Orders' of L. Paul Bremer III remain to control the economy," Antonia Juhasz writes in yesterday's Los Angeles Times. "These little noticed orders enacted by Bremer, the now-departed head of the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority, go to the heart of Bush administration plans in Iraq. They lock in sweeping advantages to American firms, ensuring long-term U.S. economic advantage while guaranteeing few, if any, benefits to the Iraqi people. The Bremer orders control every aspect of Iraqi life — from the use of car horns to the privatization of state-owned enterprises. Order No. 39 alone does no less than 'transition [Iraq ] from a … centrally planned economy to a market economy' virtually overnight and by U.S. fiat."
Personally I'm glad to see that the colony is working out. posted by micah holmquist at 8/06/2004 07:39:00 AM
