Sorry seems to be the Hardest Word
I see at least one newspaper has decided to apologise to the Member for Bagdhad Central. I'd like to think it was for honourable reasons, but I suspect litigation may have been the deciding factor in the Editor's office of the Christian Science Monitor.
It seems that ink-aging tests have proved what a great many of us suspected at the time. The *evidence* was faked. In fact it turns out that they were written in the past couple of months.
So, who saw fit to try and discredit him ? The Iraqi Regime ? Why would they do that ? He was on their side in the matter of sanctions. They had absolutely nothing to gain whatsoever from forging documents to prove he took huge amounts of money from them. I think we can discount them - unless anyone out there thinks (or knows) differently.
The Coalition Forces then ? Well they would certainly benefit slightly more than Saddam and crew would but, I have to say I think they had more important things on their mind. The attempted destruction of one fairly insignificant politician's career surely wasn't high on their list of priorities ? On balance I think we can discount the Coalition as well. Unless anyone out there thinks (or knows) differently.
That just leaves right-wing newspapers with petty vendettas then. Unless anyone out there thinks (or knows) differently.
I'm not a Galloway supporter, but incidents like this leave a nasty taste in my mouth. The same type of scurrilous allegations were made against Scargill a few years ago. Generally it take years for the truth to out and apologies to be printed. (Usually on page 85 in the smallest typeface available.
Europa
Well, after a break of 24 years, the long-awaited foray into Europe for City, is going to foray no further than Welsh Wales ! Yes the mighty Total Network Solutions will be coming to our new stadium some time in August.
This will be a dream tie for TNS. City will probably take an army of thousands of fans to the principality. Even when we were in the depths of division 2 we still managed to average a home gate of around 27,000. Hopefully we can fill the stadia for both legs and provide them with a decent pot of cash.
I just hope they don't beat us though !
Go West
The kids have been in touch, they've arrived safely in Seattle and have found a hotel just a couple of minutes walk from the Space Needle. Their party is seven strong and all of them love to travel. Over the years they've backpacked round eastern and central Europe, done the Californian Pacific coast, been to Tallin, Helsinki, Madrid, Amsterdam, Bruges, Ireland and God knows where else. Next year they're looking at South America in general and, probably, Chile in particular.
We had to make do with a fortnight in North Wales when I were a lad !
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