(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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[Watch this space for: Pentagon and Petroleum, The Media is only as Liberal as the Corporations Who Own Them, Wash Down With, and Recalcify]
This one was liberated not from Iraq proper but from Denmark, where he was under investigation for war crimes. So after ridding the world of a tyrant who used chemical weapons on his own people, the liberators seem poised to replace said tyrant with the field marshal who actually chose "the chemicals to be used and the intensity with which to drop them."
I'm really hoping this is another instance of the press getting it wrong and presenting a hoax as fact, but The Frogs of War at AFP who broke this have been better than most. I'll be checking Slate and the Mirror tomorrow for Hitchens demonstration that the successful prosecution of a war on theocratic fascism actually requires such perfidious maneuvering. posted by Anonymous12:32 PM
The Watchers
WBW: Keeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.