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March 20, 2007
Daddy, what did you do when the war started?
Over at Bloggerheads Tim's asking what people did online back on 20th March 2003 (or thereabouts). And bless him, he's tagged me.
So, I was all over the shop during Feb/Mar 2003, up to my eyeballs in HP/Compaq merger activity and spent what time I had letter writing about the war. But back in late January I got involved in an at-times heated debate with a bunch of folks on the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated news group. The whole thread was kickstarted by someone asking Joe Straczynski why he was opposed to the war.
A lot of time was spent by people trying to justify the war in the same manner that Bush and Blair did; calling him a tyrant, claiming links with Al Qaeda, WMDs, the lot. Which left some of us trying to point out Anglo-American complicity and hypocrisy.
Clive Summerfield - Re: jms Why do you oppose a war agaist Iraq? - A dig at the proven track record of US Ambassadors encouraging dictators.
Clive Summerfield - Re: jms Why do you oppose a war agaist Iraq? - The hypocrisy of attacking Iraq when N. Korea is, by the quoted standards, a bigger threat.
Clive Summerfield Re: jms Why do you oppose a war agaist Iraq? - The debate had reached the war-tech-wank stage of nuclear bunker busters, and was getting progressively more depressing.
Clive Summerfield - Re: jms Why do you oppose a war agaist Iraq? - On tyrants or, he may be a bastard but he's our bastard.
However, for real embarassment, just 2 days before the invasion of Iraq, I was relating my vasectomy experiences in the uk.d-i-y newsgroup.
Clive Summerfield - Massively way off topic but of interest to most men (The Snip)
So there you have it, as British and US troops prepared to invade Iraq, in defiance of the UN and the international community and on the basis of lies, I was relating the embarassment of post-vasectomy sample donation.
Now to tag 5 more willing (more or less) bloggers. Okay folks, what were you up to, online, on or around 20th March 2003. Doesn't have to be a blog post, could be a usenet posting, forum post, etc.
Scaryduck
Anthony Wells
Bob Piper
Simon
Doctor Vee
Posted by Clive on March 20, 2007 1:25 PM in the category