Monday, December 15, 2003
Donald Rumsfeld today announced that Saddam Hussein would be treated as a prisoner of war, an interesting decision as I didn't think that the US was any more at war with Iraq than it had been with Afghanistan. Hopefully he wasn't announcing this while somewhere away from the world's cameras two burly GIs were working Hussein over with baseball bats. The UK Government has been frank in admitting it doesn't believe Hussein will give any useful information about it's Weapons of Mass Destruction, more of a problem over here than in America where Tony Blair's insistence that he had WMD remains in everyone's mind because of the death and investigation into the death of the Advisor David Kelly. Hussein has apparently already said that Iraq never had WMD. The impression from American media I've seen over here suggests that the administration has successfully changed the focus to be about the freedom of the people of Iraq from a dictator, so Bush's Christmas has come early.
However, while the Allies pat themselves on the back over capturing Hussein, over in Afghanistan, the less fashionable front of The War Against Terror, the Taliban and Al Qa'ida, you know, the ones who actually did fly the planes into the World Trade Centre, are back and seem to be winning back the country.
However, while the Allies pat themselves on the back over capturing Hussein, over in Afghanistan, the less fashionable front of The War Against Terror, the Taliban and Al Qa'ida, you know, the ones who actually did fly the planes into the World Trade Centre, are back and seem to be winning back the country.
