In the absence of any original content, here’s a duplicate of Dan Hardie’s highly worthwhile plea to ensure we don’t abandon the Iraqis who helped us in Basra to be murdered for their collaboration. Dan’s words below. I’ve not added a fold, since there’s sod-all else content for it to get in the way of…
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“The fact that an Iraqi has just tried to blow us up proves that Islamist terrorism has absolutely nothing to do with the war in Iraq. Also, we hate Ken Livingstone.” - here.

After a postponement due to Iraq’s airports being closed in the aftermath of the bombings last week, Iraq’s President, Jalal Talabani, has now been able to visit Iran. Today he met Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. As Supreme Leader, Khamenei is the real power when it comes to Iranian foreign policy.

It is not a fact which pleases me in any way, but: Yes, actually, we did “tell you so”.

Dear Terry,
Many thanks for your letter. If you would be so good as to look behind you and use your binoculars to scan the horizon, there is an outside chance that you might locate the point.
The letter I refer to was printed in last week’s Economist, and relates to the Iraq war (yes, I know, [...]

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do? - John Maynard Keynes
If you wanted to encapsulate in a single incident the reasons why the voters in just about every major democracy are losing faith in their politicians right now, you could do worse than to go back to Washington University, St [...]

I hesitate to add to the thousands of words already written about the Euston Manifesto. We had two good posts here yesterday, but the best so far is probably this one. Anyway, I hesitate essentially because I only read it today, and the damn thing is deathly dull, a collection of anodyne pronouncements, platitudes, and [...]

The Euston Manifesto, officially launched today, proclaims itself as a way forward for “the left” - and is again defended by one of its writers, blogger and Manchester University Professor Norman Geras, over on the Guardian’s website.
Fine - a laudable aim. The British left has needed a way forward ever since the gang of four [...]

The US military has raided an Iraqi Interior Ministry building and found evidence of torture and maltreatment of prisoners: