25 March 2003 ]
Marines losing the battle for hearts and
minds
'A few miles from the bridge to the south lie the ruins of the
ancient city of Ur, founded 8,000
years ago, the birth place of Abraham
and a flourishing metropolis at a time when the inhabitants of north-west
Europe were still walking round in animal skins. Sgt Sprague, from
White Sulphur Springs in West
Virginia, passed it on his way north, but he never knew it was there.
"I've been all the way through this desert from Basra to here and I
ain't seen one shopping mall or fast food restaurant," he said.
"These people got nothing. Even in a little town like ours of twenty
five hundred people you got a
McDonald's at one end and a
Hardee's at the other." '
( Guardian )
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See also this Philadelphia Inquirer
article, from yesterday, about endangered antiquities in
Iraq
This Is Gulf War 2
Photographs of dead civilians, US military casualties and
Iraqi military casualties ( The Memory
Hole )
Live From Iraq, an Un-Embedded Journalist:
Robert Fisk on Washington's 'Quagmire' in Iraq, Civilian Deaths and the
Fallacy of Bush's 'War of Liberation'
Transcript of an interview today with the
Independent's veteran war
correspondent Robert Fisk, who has
been in Baghdad since the beginning of the invasion
( Democracy Now! )
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See also this article by Fisk from
yesterday
The 2003 UK Big Brother Awards
Worst public servant: Ken
Livingstone
Most invasive company: Capita
Lifetime menace: Tony
Blair
( Privacy International )
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See also this Slashdot discussion
