taint.org: Justin Mason’s Weblog

Politics: So I was listening to that this morning. Did I hear correctly? Did Bush really say that one of the good side-effects of Iraq’s invasion, was that there were now hopefully less attacks inside other countries? sure looks like it:

‘Coalition forces now serving in Iraq are confronting the terrorists and foreign fighters so peaceful nations around the world will never have to face them within our own borders.’

I’m sure the Iraqi civilians will love that. ‘Hey guys, sorry about all the missing limbs, but you’re doing a really good job of being flypaper so we don’t get hurt. Cheers! Have a 15% corporate tax rate!‘

Tags: bush, cheers, coalition, flypaper, hey, invasion, job, morning, politics, tax, world

Politics: Bruce Sterling’s speech at SXSW ‘04. It’s excellent. He covers climate change, globalization, the Bush administration’s Lysenkoism, the spam problem, WMDs, and the Spanish election. Now I want to move to Austin ;)

Tags: administration, bush, change, climate, globalization, lysenkoism, politics, problem, spam, speech, sxsw

I’ve been trying to reduce all the anti-war stuff, since there’s plenty of other sources for that and I reckon I’m boring everyone. But this story’s a doozie — US, UK intelligence agencies accuse Bush and Blair of distorting and fabricating evidence in rush to war:

A high-level UK source said last night that intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic were furious that briefings they gave political leaders were distorted in the rush to war with Iraq. ‘They ignored intelligence assessments which said Iraq was not a threat,’ the source said. Quoting an editorial in a Middle East newspaper which said, ‘Washington has to prove its case. If it does not, the world will for ever believe that it paved the road to war with lies’, he added: ‘You can draw your own conclusions.’ …

‘The INC saw the demand, and provided what was needed,’ he said. ‘The implication is that they polluted the whole US intelligence effort.’

Tags: bush, doozie, everyone, evidence, intelligence, plenty, rush, source, story, stuff