War is Peace / Ignorance is Strength
Thursday, March 27th, 2003If you haven't read Salam Pax, you probably should.
There's a lot of conjecture regarding the authenticity of Salam's blog. He's a strange figure, after all, a gay atheist living in Iraq. But I suspect there's far more evidence to support his credibility than to compromise it. Firstly, consider the level of detail - this guy really knows Baghdad. Secondly, consider the fact that his blog began in December 2001 - why in the world would someone have maintained this character for nearly a year before the US mentioned Iraq? Thirdly, consider the far more knowledgeable arguments put forth by Diane.
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Salam appears to have removed comment links from his blog, but the URL for one series of comments is still in my browser cache. It's here: http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=salam&comment=riverbend. It gives some interesting perspective into how people, especially Westerners, are responding to his blog.
