BEYOND NORTHERN IRAQ: STUHUGHESIRAQ@MAIL.COMBlogging a journalist's travels in Northern Iraq and his subsequent rehabilitation following a landmine accident in which he lost his foot.My accreditation for the Olympics has come thr...- July 31, 2004 <img src="http:stuarthughes.blogspot.comolympicaccred.jpg" ><br ><br >My accreditation for the Olympics has come through -- and now an assignment that seemed way off in the distance for so long suddenly feels imminent.<br ><br >A week from now I'll be in Athens, reporting on the Olympic build-up.http://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/2004/07/my-accreditation-for-olympics-has-come.html Another great Doonesbury strip today which rings t...- July 29, 2004 Another great Doonesbury strip today which rings true for all of us amps who have had to weigh up between a new prosthesis and a new car (or in the case of the Cambodian deminer I met last year, a herd of cows.)http://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/2004/07/another-great-doonesbury-strip-today.html THE KERRY CONVENTION VIDEO IN FULL Tonight's Ke...- July 29, 2004 THE KERRY CONVENTION VIDEO IN FULLTonight's Kerry documentary "A Remarkable Promise", which will be shown prior to his speech to the DNC, will open with narrator Morgan Freeman reaching back to Kerry's birth at Fitzsimmonds Military hospital in December 1943. John was a good big brother," his sister Diana will say.After touching on his early years, the video will reveal that he joined a rock band called the Electras. "You know it was a great way to meet girls. We made a little record," Kerry...http://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/2004/07/kerry-convention-video-in-full.html The John Kerry smear campaign is stepping up a...- July 29, 2004 The John Kerry smear campaign is stepping up a gear with the planned launch of a hatchet job on his military record by right-wing publishing house Regnery -- home of moderate voices of reason such as Ann Coulter, NRA boss Wayne LaPierre and redneck rocker Ted Nugent, author of the best-sellers God, Guns and Rock'n'Roll and Kill It and Grill It: A Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish.Read more about the Republican connections of the book's author, John E. O'Neill, here, here and...http://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/2004/07/john-kerry-smear-campaign-is-stepping.html Despite what he says on his website, I can report ...- July 28, 2004 Despite what he says on his website, I can report that Michael Moore will NOT be attending the showing of Fahrenheit 911 in Crawford, Texas.Moore will put out a statement later, in which he will say that he wants the film, and not himself, to be the media's and the public's focus.Is there a difference between the twohttp://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/2004/07/despite-what-he-says-on-his-website-i.html I may not be one of the Convention Bloggers, b...- July 28, 2004 I may not be one of the Convention Bloggers, but here's what I'm hearing about Senator John Edwards's preparations for his Big Speech. (By the way, can anyone convince me that the convention bloggers are producing anything of lasting interest) Here's the word from Boston:Senator Edwards is spending the day secluded in his hotel suite at the Park Plaza Hotel. His voice is still a little strained.Edwards's speech, which he's been working on since the day he was named as Kerry's running mate, is..http://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/2004/07/i-may-not-be-one-of-convention.html |