So Colonel Gaddafi can stay on in his own country after all, so long as he gives up power? How very gracious of us.
Of course, while Blair was pretending to believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (he sent in British forces without the necessary protection against such weapons, so perfectly well did he know that they did not exist, and he has since blithely admitted that knowledge on television), he was perfectly prepared to allow Saddam to remain, not merely in Iraq, but running Iraq. So long as he "disarmed".
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Johann Hari's Orwell Prize should be given to Fern Britton for getting Blair to admit that never believed in WMD. If she had been an Establishment hack, that would have been the biggest political story since Profumo, bigger than that even.
ReplyDeleteIf she had been an Establishment hack, then she would never have asked the question.
ReplyDeleteMaybe not Blair, but definitely the people who wanted that war so badly (Kamm and so on) would have preferred it if there had been WMD but our boys were still sent in against them with no protection. Wars are such an efficient way of getting rid of working-class men, hence the reason for having so many of them. Putting them up against WMD protected by nothing more than helmets would have been super efficient.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't let Blair off the hook like that. But your main point is of course entirely correct.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, in America, and increasingly also in Britain, there is a racial dimension, a desire for the industrial harvesting of blacks, Irish Catholics, and Scots-Irish Southerners and Westerners, all of whom are mainstays of the American military.
The African-American male faces a triple genocide in the womb, on the streets and on the battlefield. The working-class British male, of all ethnic backgrounds, is rapidly heading the same way. So, are you still so sure that Blair is not fully on board?
It beggars belief. When Rebekah Brooks admitted to phone hacking, it was under parliamentary privilege or else she would have been arrested on the spot. Blair made his infinitely worse confesion after he had left Parliament and we all watched it on the telly. There are police with him all the time. Why did one of them not nick him there and then?
ReplyDeleteYet another item to add to their lengthening charge sheet at the moment.
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