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To think, I could be a network engineer in Iraq instead. Fascinating, if very scary.

Perhaps most emotive is the TFO’s logo, which combines the twin towers, the Pentagon and the United 93 designation of the fourth 9/11 plane.

…to be surprised that there is yet another “Terror Alert” when the Government is in trouble again? Ringfence Heathrow with tanks on the eve of an anti war march, anyone? Lordy. It’s all starting to smell very Nixon…

I am torn. I was avidly against the invasion of Iraq, yet now find myself horrified by the prospect of pulling out early and leaving an horrendous vacuum and inevitable civil war behind. This article about Bechtel’s withdrawal from the rebuilding effort does not make me feel any better.

Barrymore could have nuclear weapons in months.

Link between Al Quaeeda and Iraq proved by Bush… “They’re both nasty”

I’m sorry, following today’s events I can’t help but show you these two images (bushbook.jpg and bushanddick.jpg [a personal favourite]). They both turned up in my email over the weekend. Nice to see people are thinking of me!

Heh… TalibanReunited…

I keep trying to leave this topic alone, but can’t quite seem to… Mo Mowlam wrote an opinion piece for the Guardian last week, and it rings painfully true. Just to pull out one line: “Under cover of the war on terrorism, the war to secure oil supplies could be waged”…

Read the full piece here. Gave me a whole new perspective on the issue.

keeping up the general theme I’m feeling at the moment…

(picture from here)

This says it all really. A message to Saddam spelt out in American servicemen. Nice. (picture from Reuters, btw)