On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Ok, so does anyone understand the pressure for U.S. intervention in
> Liberia? Counterpunch creatively attributed it to all those oil
> tankers being registered as Liberian flag vessels, but that seems
> like a real stretch. Is it that Bush is looking to improve his image?
> Or what?
>
> Doug
An effective distraction? As soon as the war in Iraq started, only people on left-wing maillists were talking about the mess in Afghanistan...
Miles