Link o’ the day: Smirking Chimp’s account of how we got into this mess in Iraq, fact by fact. (Where “we” equals the US, the West, or the world, depending on your level of identification.) Via Bob Harris.
In comments to yesterdays post, Leon the God gets unnerved, Mr Salmond endorses his earlier recommendation, and T reveals that there was a BBC TV movie of The Woman in Black. A bit of IMDB clicking later and I see that this version earned universally good reviews and was written by Nigel Kneale (who, I also discovered, died last year). Any of the film buffs in the audience seen this, then?
Our new kettle died tonight, less than a month after purchase. I know we’ll be able to get a replacement, but heck, it is a sad thing to be boiling water on the stovetop for a cup of tea.
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“how we got into this mess in Iraq, fact by fact. ”
I was in America talking to an American about six months after the US had invaded Iraq. At the time he said: “We know we’re being lied to. We’re not stupid. But Saddam Hussein is evil and that justifies it.”
Jugs and kettles are pretty uncommon here altogether. The standard way of heating water that I’ve seen here is the use the stove (or in our case the Microwave).