2 April 2003 Words and Meanings By Gwynne Dyer The first casualty of war is not truth, which generally dies well before hostilities begin. It is language. Consider how Iraqi resistance fighters belonging to the Fedayeen organisation and the Baath Party militia have been renamed in only a week. At first American spokespersons referred to […]
16 March 2003 The United Nations: The Damage Done By Gwynne Dyer In the end, it wasn’t the wicked French and their veto that deprived the US and Britain of a second United Nations resolution authorising them to attack Iraq; the Bush administration couldn’t even come up with a majority of ‘yes’ votes that would
18 January 2003 Iraq: The Schedule Slips By Gwynne Dyer It gets quite warm in Iraq between May and September, and the last conqueror of Baghdad, General Sir Stanley Maude, avoided the worst of the Mesopotamian summer by leading his British and Indian troops into the city in March of 1917. However, the Arab warriors