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31 March 2003: "Peter Arnett and his amazing talking bollocks"

I'm sure you've heard about Peter Arnett's craptastic performance on Iraqi state television by now (and his subsequent dismissal), and you don't need me to tell you about it. What I do notice, though, is that very few people seem to realise Arnett isn't an American; he's from New Zealand.
Call me pedantic, but I was rather under the impression that it's impossible to be a traitor or a dissident (to quote two popular points of view) when one is not actually a national of the country one is betraying or with the government of which one is dissenting.

Whoops! Correction to the above: Jackie tells me Arnett naturalised about 25 years ago. My mistake. (And you'll note that, unlike Michael Moore, I actually left this entry up.)

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