Chris Allbritton, a free lance journalist, posts blog entries from Baghdad. Here’s his posting on the surprise handover ceremony this morning. Be sure to check out the main page for up to the minute news.
Daily Archives: Mon,June/28/2004
VOTE
Forget who I support, the most important thing for Canadians to do today is:
JON STEWART ON LARRY KING
I hate Larry King and will not watch his show unless I’m forced to at gunpoint. Which means I didn’t catch his conversation with Jon Stewart of The Daily Show. Luckily, you and I can read the transcript here.
A couple of my favorite lines:
When asked what God thinks of Canada (after stating that God supports the U.S only) ” Happy to have them in the attic, but not so crazy about them in general. “
Asked to comment on the upcoming handover of power in Iraq “It’s great. I’m a big handover guy. I’m a big sovereignty guy. I love handing over sovereignty. I prefer to hand it over knowing who I’m giving it to, but I like the way this administration’s doing it. They’re just saying, we’re just handing it over. Maybe it will be a raffle. Maybe it will be the eighth caller. We don’t know yet. It’s very exciting.”
UPDATE: So they jumped the gun and had the handover ceremony this morning. Slick trick. Will this make the militants mad and cause an escalation of the bloodshed? We’ll see.