Friday, July 8, 2005
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Labour Friends of Iraq: Alan Johnson pens an open letter to a comrade on the attacks today - '...We have not spoken for some time. After our work together in the local Stop the War group do you recall how we fell out? In January 2004 you called me a ‘pro-imperialist’ and, I remember, a ‘neocon’, because I wrote an article in support of a war on terror. I had written, “For many left intellectuals and writers the dirty bomb that Al Qaeda was getting closer to creating in its Afghan camps will never be finished and explode in the middle of London or Madrid. From the massacre of ‘westerners’ at Luxor, to the massacre of Jews in Turkey, parts of the left are in denial’...' (Link)
