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What a surprise: A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow.   “Curveball”, the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass […]

If you didn’t notice it at the time, check out Scott Bates recent column in the Day. Scott points out that we have actually achieved all the goals (bullshit that they were) we set for the war in Iraq when we started it, and that it is therefore time to leave. Iraq has fallen out […]

This is the entire text of a “News in Brief” from this morning’s Day, which in turn is taken from a longer article in the Washington Post: Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about […]

This is what we have accomplished in Iraq (reported, of course, by a British newspaper, The Guardian), via Americablog: Authorities in the southern Iraqi city of Basra have admitted they are powerless to prevent ‘honour killings’ in the city following a 70 per cent increase in religious murders during the past year. There has been […]