Loose Cannons

Or had one too many?

"[Author David] Frum describes a meeting in the Oval Office last September with five clergymen... 'You know', Bush told them, 'I had a drinking problem. Right now I should be in a bar in Texas, not the Oval Office. There is only one reason that I am in the Oval Office and not in a bar. I found faith. I found God. I am here because of the power of prayer.'" — New York Review of Books, February 13.

Nobody here but us chickens

"A team of UN weapons inspectors swooped in on an abandoned farm earlier this month... All they found were the remnants of a massive chicken-farming operation... Two days after, the inspectors went to another poultry farm on the outskirts of Baghdad, based on an intelligence report... inspectors scoured the chicken coops and used ground-penetrating radar ... they concluded the report was false." — Washington Post, January 27.

Washington's secret weapon

"Rambo is back. And this time he's gunning for Osama bin Laden. Hollywood veteran Sylvester Stallone is set to return to the screen in Rambo IV — after writing the script himself. The movie is expected to hit theaters next year, and will feature action in Afghanistan and battles with the Taliban." — The British Sun, January 20.

Invade Japan!

"Japan on Tuesday admitted that 206kg of its plutonium — enough to make about 25 nuclear bombs — is unaccounted for." — British Financial Times, January 28.

From Green Left Weekly, February 5, 2003.

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From GLW issue 524