Real History and the War against Iraq The Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) [ source ] London, November 29, 2003 David Irving comments: Fisk — one of the greats MEET Robert Fisk — consistently one of the world’s greatest and bravest writers. Unlikely to win the Noble Prize for Literature or any other “meaningful” award; but able, I make so bold as to say, to sleep with his conscience untroubled each night.
A few months ago he spoke at a university in the United States. No US newspaper (to my knowledge) carries his despatches, and yet over a thousand students turned up to meet and hear the British journalist in person. What does that tell us about the growing might of the Internet? And about why the traditional enemy is taking frantic steps to control it?
The lies we tell our enemies who are now our friends Tricky Stuff, Evil by Robert Fisk WHEN George Bush sneaked into Baghdad airport for his two-hour “warm meal” for Thanksgiving, he was in feisty form. Americans hadn’t come to Baghdad “to retreat before a bunch of thugs and assassins”. Evil is still around, it seems, ready to attack the forces of Good.
And if only a handful of the insurgents in Iraq are ex-Baathists – and I suspect it is only a handful – then who would complain if Saddam’s henchmen are called “thugs”? But Evil’s a tricky thing. Here one day, gone the next. Take Japan. Now, I like the Japanese. Hard-working, sincere, cultured – just take a look at their collection of French impressionists – they even had the good sense to pull out of George Bush’s “war on terror”.
And Japan, remember, is one of the examples George always draws upon when he’s promising democracy in Iraq. Didn’t America turn emperor-obsessed Japan into a freedom-loving nation after the Second World War? So, in Tokyo not so long ago, I took a walk down memory lane. Not my memory, but the cruelly cut-short memory of a teenage Royal Marine called Jim Feather .
Jim was the son of my dad’s sister Freda and he was on the Repulse [ British battle cruiser ] when she was sunk by Japanese aircraft on 10 December, 1941. Jim was saved and brought