IRAQ

Dailynews: Bush’s trumpet blown in Casablanca by Robert Fisk

More than 70 dead in a week. Thanks for the Iraq war. Thank you, Mr Bush and Mr Blair, for making our world safer by ridding us of the one tyrant – Saddam Hussein – who never had any connection with 11 September 2001, or with the Riyadh bombings or with the bombings in Casablanca. The “liberation” of Iraq was supposed to free us from the bombers of Al Qaeda.
Afghanistan is in a state of anarchy, its pathetic government scarcely ruling over Kabul. Iraq is in an even more incipient state of anarchy, largely without electricity, money or petrol. And this is a war of good against evil? Casablanca is a sorry and pertinent page in the history of America’s folly in the Arab world. So what comes next? More boasts by President Bush that he is winning the “war against terror” or more claims – yes, he told you so – that the “war on terror” is eternal? Heaven spare us all. —Independent