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Phoney!

Phoney!

Currently Listening To: Don't Look Back In Anger by Oasis

My New Phone!

Well my phone arrived this morning. I was pretty much half asleep and I've done a decent job of sleeping away the rest of the day to boot :) It is now all activated and stuff and I downloaded 2 ringtones. The theme from The Muppet Show and my current choice, The original Batman theme music.

Its camera is spiffy and I may have to use it on a more regular basis :D Think the next purchase for me will be a Bluetooth adaptor for this computer so I can use my mobile as a little digital camera for this blog. Sure I like blogging but it seems a bit onerous duty to have to lug around a digital camera wherever you go, so having it built into your ridiculously sexy mobile phone

Andrew Sullivan provided a great link to a very good article from the Arab News by Fawaz Turki. Here's an excerpt:

Is it too early to adopt a revisionist view of the US war in Iraq and for this column to admit its mistake in having vehemently opposed it from the outset?

At issue here is whether the Iraqi people have benefited from the overthrow of the Baathist regime and whether the American occupation will eventually benefit their country even more. I’m convinced — and berate me here from your patriotic bleachers, if you must — that what we have seen in the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates in recent months may turn out to be the most serendipitous event in its modern history.

See, you can oppose big corporate America and understand what the war on Iraq was really about. As Mr. Turki noted:

No, I don’t believe that by going to war, America had dark designs on Iraq’s oil or pursued an equally dark conspiracy to “help Israel.” I believe that the US, perhaps willy-nilly, will end up helping Iraqis regain their human sanity, their social composure and the national will to rebuild their devastated nation.

I may not think to highly of Bush's domestic policies being left wing in my own beliefs but I can at least recognize when something is and when something is not an oil grabbin' Big Business Bonanza.

I saw a banner outside the Houses of Parliament upon which was written

"Stop the genocide of innocent Iraqi Children!"

Ignoring the obvious syntactial errors of the passage I felt it prudent to say: "We just did".

Posted by John Swaine at November 6, 2003 04:45 PM