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"Top blog/Renato Obeid's World/Today's pick: This rambling weblog is worth reading not so much for its satirical posts but more for its insight into the minutiae of life in Lebanon, including the etiquette of road accidents and how to hire a taxi.”
-Jane Perrone, The Guardian
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Friday, May 14, 2004
I applaud Arabs protesting the heinous Iraqi prisoner abuses.
Keep up the good work – protest prisoner abuse (and everybody else abuse) in the twenty-one other Arab countries.
Regarding those abuses, a Pentagon source told CNN that there are some three hundred and sixty photos showing this.
What are they doing – making a calendar?
Preorder your 2005 Pentagon Desk Calendar now!
Available only while (prisoner) stocks last!
Only 500 billion dollars!*
As always happens when something like this occurs, there's been lots of talk about the Geneva Convention.
Misplaced I think – how conventional can a convention that essentially allows you to kill people as long as you do it nicely be?
*My tallying of the total Pentagon annual budget combined with the cost of a year's occupation of Iraq.
Wouldn’t the Middle East and the world be better off if this money had of gone into a modern Marshall Plan rather than this martial plan?
Can we put this down to George Bush not being able to spell or is warmongering his natural tendency?
"You say Marshall I say martial".
Lebanese are a First World people living in a circumstantially, situationaly, structurally, statistically and hopefully temporarily Third World country who collectively behave as a Third World people.
Besides, who says that we have a Third World economy? - prices here are well above those of the First World!
4:40 am
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