2 May marks the third anniversary of the now infamous statement - "staged" on an aircraft carrier - of George Bush declaring "mission accomplished" in Iraq.
Er, not quite, if ever, as we all now know.
"Three years ago, on May 2, President George W Bush announced that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended”. The Americans are still there. Paul McGeough has probably spent more time in Iraq than any other Australian journalist, reporting on its shambolic uncertainties, from invasion to the brink of civil war."
Paul McGeough will be well known to readers of the SMH and The Age and being interviewed on ABC radio and TV. He is one of the few journalists who has remained independent, was never embedded and has pretty fearlessly called it as it is in Iraq.
McGeough's excellent piece "Tomorrow, When the War Began" in The Walkley Magazine can be read here.
Er, not quite, if ever, as we all now know.
"Three years ago, on May 2, President George W Bush announced that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended”. The Americans are still there. Paul McGeough has probably spent more time in Iraq than any other Australian journalist, reporting on its shambolic uncertainties, from invasion to the brink of civil war."
Paul McGeough will be well known to readers of the SMH and The Age and being interviewed on ABC radio and TV. He is one of the few journalists who has remained independent, was never embedded and has pretty fearlessly called it as it is in Iraq.
McGeough's excellent piece "Tomorrow, When the War Began" in The Walkley Magazine can be read here.
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