Curiouser and Curiouser! on gwot http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic gwot Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb A secret service to be proud of Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:09:46 +0100 <p><blockquote>Those gargantuan footprints – and some good detective work by the Italian police based on unsecured cell phones (evidently from a batch issued to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Rome), hotel bills, credit card receipts, and the like – have given us a glimpse into the unexpectedly extravagant "shadow war" being conducted on our behalf by the Bush administration through the Central Intelligence Agency. So let me skip the normal discussions of kidnappings, torture, or whether we violated Italian sovereignty, and just concentrate on what those footprints revealed. If the President's Global War on Terror has been saddled with the inelegant acronym GWOT, the Italian rendition operation should perhaps be given the acronym LDVWOT or La Dolce Vita War on Terror. [<a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt98.html">Tom Engelhardt</a>]</blockquote></p> <p>With people like this fighting our corner in the Global War on Terror we can all sleep a little safer in our beds. Those of us staying in 5 star hotels on the taxpayers dime can anyway.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002778.html