Iraq body count
The Danger of Lauren Booth
Lauren Booth has been exercising her right to free speech on ITV’s Daybreak, reports the Telegraph:
Ms Booth’s brother-in-law, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, previously said there is a ‘problem within Islam’ which allows the seeds of extremism to be sown in the wake of the killing [the murder of Lee Rigby].
Asked if he was right, [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 19 June 2013 at 9:21 pm
Groundhog Day on Iraq, Again
Newsnight’s Iraq special, 10 years on from the war, was broadcast last night (have I mentioned it?).
I thought the BBC should be congratulated for the programme, which did not feature a single member or former member of the Socialist Workers Party (although there were a few “lies” and “war crimes” in the audience), and it [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 3:48 pm
The Day of Reckoning approaches
If I had opposed the Iraq war, I would be really alarmed by now by the extent to which the conspiracy theorists have taken over my side of the argument.
You need only mention Iraq on Twitter to get the full Iraqocaust, million died,* war criminal psychorama which is gearing up for the 10th anniversary of [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 11 February 2013 at 2:37 pm
Iraq 10 Years On: Was It Worth It?
The wheezing traction engine of Blair rage is being cranked into action again, as the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq (20 March) approaches. Each time, the arguments on the anti side become simpler and more removed from what happened at the time.
I couldn’t make it to Thursday’s debate at Goldsmith’s, “Iraq 10 Years [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 9 February 2013 at 6:03 pm
Iraq, nearly a decade later
It has been another grim year in Iraq, according to Iraq Body Count, which has tracked violent deaths since the invasion in 2003.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 1 January 2013 at 12:09 pm
Death toll update as US leaves Iraq
Iraq Body Count has just published its latest update on the death toll since the invasion in 2003, to mark the withdrawal of US combat forces. This is the important bit:
The total number of violent civilian deaths recorded since the 2003 invasion has now exceeded 114,000.
Combining IBC civilian data with official Iraqi and US combatant [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 2 January 2012 at 12:00 pm
In praise of Tony Blair
I missed this ironic tribute to journalists’ enduring fascination with themselves, or, rather, with themselves as seen through the phantasm of “Tony Blair”: a Guardian leading article entitled “In praise of … Tony Blair”. Gosh almost as postmodern and witty as that Channel 4 pile of crock I didn’t watch (right), thereby extending my life [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 16 October 2011 at 3:11 pm
Iraq: “honest people did and can still disagree”
Another fine anonymous contribution to the Groundhog debate about the Iraq invasion by rms3, whose comment on my blog I wrote about here. Today rms3, who opposed the invasion but from a reasonable perspective, has replied to Johann Hari:
Much as I admire your writing in general and the intent and spirit behind this piece, I [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 29 January 2011 at 12:06 pm
Groundhog Spat with Johann
I was sorry to see my friend Johann Hari (below), who once supported the invasion of Iraq, repeating some of the most awful and untrue anti-war propaganda in a Groundhog post on this blog. He says that the war “has led to the death of a million people”.
He has said it before (only it was [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 26 January 2011 at 8:01 pm
More reasons why the Iraq war was not wrong
I seem, or rather Ed Miliband seems, to have (re)started something with the declaration that the invasion of Iraq was “wrong”, about which I wrote on Wednesday.
This generated a large number of comments, some of the authors of which seem to be coming to the issue for the first time, and some of them seem [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 1 October 2010 at 6:41 pm
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