This is really un-frikkin-believeable. Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, has been denied entry to the USA.
It seems Fisk's crime was to suggest that the US and Britain are instigating sedition and civil war in Iraq to create an atmosphere that would allow them to stay.
Of course, I have been canvassing the same option almost since I began this blog. Truth is, it's about the only way to make any sense whatsoever of the Bush team's ruinous "policies" in Iraq from Day One.
Juan Cole today tip-toes around the same issue:
Some kind readers have been asking me if it is possible that the British SAS operatives captured by the Iraqi police on Monday were agents provocateurs planning to blow things up and blame some Iraqi group. My answer is that while it cannot be absolutely ruled out, the theory has almost no facts behind it. It is not even clear if the British agents had a bomb in their car, and they may not after all have killed Iraqi police who came to grab them. Wittgenstein said that about that which we do not know, we must be silent. That's my policy, anyway. I'd need way more evidence than now exists to charge the British military with such a dastardly policy.
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Whether or not they were planting roadside bombs to stoke sectarian violence in a mixed neighborhood, the civilian clothes and explosives in their car were rather convincing--which is why the British army had to go to such extreme measures to recover the evidence. All part of 'preparations' for the upcoming vote, mind you. Create hundreds of thousands of pissed off Shia in the south while creating hundreds of thousands of homeless refugees in the north and west, and you win the election--and the constitution dissolves Iraq. Sadr and his Sunni allies see through it all, while Juan Cole bullshits his way ever deeper. What a puky liberal.
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