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2005-03-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Al-Guardian gets it! -- The war's silver lining

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Posted by PlanetDan 2005-03-02 9:09:36 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 NYT and Al Guardian coming out two days apart?

I don't know whether or not to think:
Beware when your enemy smiles and greets you!
or
if this line gives it away:
even if it is a Bush slogan and arguably code for the installation of malleable regimes.
translate ... how can we continue Bush bashing and anti-Americanism if no one wants to be associated with us anymore.

Or maybe they finally got a clue - and are tired of defending ideas that only drug-addled brain dead or true believers can't see are responsible for the misery and murder of millions.

Posted by 2b 2005-03-02 9:45:02 AM|| 2005-03-02 9:45:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 did I say millions? I meant billions.

Posted by 2b 2005-03-02 9:45:45 AM|| 2005-03-02 9:45:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Note the last line...

"Sometimes your enemyâs enemy is not your friend."

This is Al-Gaurdian admitting that they are our enemy. I think I'm filing this under 'Duh.'

Posted by AlanC 2005-03-02 10:18:27 AM|| 2005-03-02 10:18:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 good catch AlanC!

Posted by 2b 2005-03-02 10:28:26 AM|| 2005-03-02 10:28:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Positioning themselves early for the tenth year edition in which they wax nostalgic about how "we" liberated those poor arabs from totalitarian oppression.

Posted by BH 2005-03-02 10:32:52 AM|| 2005-03-02 10:32:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 BH,

It comes in a two-volume set. The first one is where Ted Kennedy and John Kerry explain how they helped Reagan win the Cold War.

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-03-02 12:08:22 PM|| 2005-03-02 12:08:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Dreadnought, how could we forget? It's seared - seared - into our memory. Not Teddy, though. He probably couldn't remember what he drank for breakfast this morning.

Posted by BH 2005-03-02 12:59:33 PM|| 2005-03-02 12:59:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 From the Guardian, April 9, 2013:

"All eight of our readers should bear in mind that today is the tenth anniversary of the resignation from power of President Hussein of Iraq. This action followed hard on the heels of several strongly worded resolutions sponsored by UN Secretary General Annan, with the support of the Guardian's editorial staff and cartoonist Steve Bell. The peaceful transition of power was marred only by America's opportunistic establishment of the infamous Abu Ghraib concentration camp, which is the subject of the remainder of today's edition."

Posted by Matt 2005-03-02 1:03:55 PM|| 2005-03-02 1:03:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Everone knows you need change to get Ripple.

Posted by R Foxx 2005-03-02 2:30:53 PM|| 2005-03-02 2:30:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 SYRIA = LEBANON = IRAN > handsome,modern-looking, upwardly-mobile pro-Western Muslim babes and youth demonstrating for change against the ultra-conservative, totalitarian empire-hungry Socialist grandpas that are the Mad Mullahs!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-03-02 9:15:06 PM|| [http://n/a] 2005-03-02 9:15:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, so what! I won't be happy till the editors of the the Times and al-Guardian do the "I'm Sorry" dance - on television.

Posted by DMFD 2005-03-02 11:16:50 PM|| 2005-03-02 11:16:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, DMFD, what is your planed lifespan? ;-)
They will start reframing the issue, a little twist here, a little spin there... and in few years... go back to Matt's crystal ball to see the future (#8).

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-02 11:23:49 PM|| 2005-03-02 11:23:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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