Today I've written about several different aspects of media and the aftermath of the war in Iraq. I still have an anti war stance, I don't think it was the right thing to have done. It is going to be a long running mess in Iraq and the previous warzone Afghanistan for several years. The "exit plan" just hasn't been thought through for either country.
The t-shirt campaign from Agit Properties is an amusing parody on the near blanket pro War on Iraq stance from the majority of US media organisations. Henry Norr is a victim of companies deciding that they own your free time, as well as your paid time and can decide what is the right way to behave. The BBC is different, it is a media organisation being attacked by the incumbent government because it is asking valid questions of the decisions and policy around the pre and post war plans.
It feels like the war is not over yet and will run for most of the year to come. Certainly it will take at least a year if not two to get the rebuilding of Iraq and Afghanistan even part way complete.
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