Sadly, it looks as though the guys over at SIAW are thinking of pulling the plug. We hope they don't.

SIAW is, and we hope will remain, one of the pioneers of what is already starting to emerge as a genuine "left", sharply distinguished from the pseudo-left not only by a stronger connection with the "real world" but also by a capacity for real differences and debates instead of just petty dogmatic bickering and plain nastiness."

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Apologies are bullshit.

We face a clear choice.

Either our enemies will succeed in establishing photos of American and British oppressors taking over Saddam's torture chambers as the iconic image for the war.

Or

We will swiftly replace those images, not with mealy mouthed apologies or token sackings but something more vivid that can really capture the imagination of the Iraqi people and others long oppressed by tyrants.

Only one image can turn this around.

Senior US military officers responsible for this treacherous undermining of the war effort must be put on trial for their lives and given a free fair and public trial by general Court Martial.

Then those found guilty must be lined up against the wall and shot.

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by Albert (May 7,2004).