Wednesday, March 15, 2006
THE ROAD TO BAGHDAD BEGAN AT SARAJEVO
In The Times, David Aaronovitch:
And David then does so . . . and well. Read on. ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, March 15, 2006
In The Times, David Aaronovitch:
ONE OF THE MORE tragic aspects of the demise of Slobodan Milosevic is that the international committee to defend him will now have to be wound up. The committee have been assiduous jail-visitors, invariably finding the former Serbian leader resolute or unbowed, his belief in his own innocence virtually luminescent. And they have been determined petitioners, demanding Mr Milosevic’s release and the jailing of “the real war criminals: the Nato leaders who committed crimes against humanity and against Yugoslav sovereignty and who continue to commit those crimes today”. One of their signatories was the new Nobel laureate for literature, Harold Pinter, though somehow this fact was left off the citation.
All that remains for them to do is to spread as many rumours as they can that the forces of imperialism done the old boy in, and then they can get down to the business of pre-emptively defending Kim Jong Il, or posthumously rehabilitating Beria, or something useful like that. What I want to do, however, is to chronicle how the Serbian leader was responsible for the invasion of Iraq...
All that remains for them to do is to spread as many rumours as they can that the forces of imperialism done the old boy in, and then they can get down to the business of pre-emptively defending Kim Jong Il, or posthumously rehabilitating Beria, or something useful like that. What I want to do, however, is to chronicle how the Serbian leader was responsible for the invasion of Iraq...
And David then does so . . . and well. Read on. ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, March 15, 2006
