It's been two years and four days since I started writing at dompannell.com and it's been two years and two days since I sat down with a bottle of wine and wrote about my annoyance with US policy in Iraq.
I wouldn't bring it up again (hey, I'm sober for a start!) but earlier today Saddam Hussein was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. There is talk of insurgency as a reaction to the decision.
I've lost count of the number of times I've heard the situation in Iraq described as 'catastrophic' or similar. It seems to have been completely mishandled by governments (US/UK) that didn't plan for the power vacuum that followed the invasion and subsequent capture of Saddam. When I listen to the news in the morning, it seems there is always a story about another massive explosion killing people who are just trying to live their lives over there.
It's Guy Fawkes Night here in the UK and there are explosions here too, outside my window as local kids play with fireworks. I hope that's the only sort of explosion that Londoners have to listen to this year.
Posted by Dom Pannell at November 5, 2006 9:56 PM | TrackBack