<p>I’m at a loss where to start since I’m determined that my blogs won’t suck to the same degree that the vast majority of on-line diaries do. There won’t be any pictures of my pets, rants about lines at the bank or that sort of thing here. No cute stories about my kids (I only have one so far anyway) anywhere near or my personal interpretation of professional sports - as if you’d want to read that instead of poking needles into your eyes</p> http://www.frankdesales.com/FranksBlog/tabid/9645/BlogId/23/Default.aspx en-US info@marginspress.co.za info@marginspress.co.za Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:06:24 GMT Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:06:24 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.4.0.39853 I had to share this. In a snide (although wholly unbalanced) article that screams ‘I told you so’, someone called Jonathan Steele of The Guardian has claimed that the US had ‘admitted defeat’ in Iraq. ‘Defeat’ is a very strong word with military connotations; Hitler was defeated, Troy was defeated, Bismarck soundly defeated Napoleon III, etc. This might come as a surprise to the rest of us who realise that the only reason Saddam is no longer in power is because he was swept out by the US military. No doubt Saddam would have enjoyed his hanging a lot more if he known that Steele was watching those bits that matched his personal agenda and had decided that the Baghdad Butcher was really ahead on points. That Iraq is only the second Middle East democracy and that Mad Dog Gadaffi caught such a fright at what the US was doing that he voluntarily dismantled his A-bomb programme doesn’t matter apparently. http://www.frankdesales.com/FranksBlog/tabid/9645/EntryID/114/Default.aspx info@marginspress.co.za http://www.frankdesales.com/FranksBlog/tabid/9645/EntryID/114/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.frankdesales.com/Default.aspx?tabid=9645&EntryID=114 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:32:00 GMT 0 http://www.frankdesales.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=114