Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Tuesday 4 December 2007
Why Are They Still Here?
As of last night, why do the Henry Jackson Society, the Euston Manifesto Group, and the rest of them still exist at all? It was bad enough that they were still being payed, even before last night, to spew their wholly discredited warmongering bile across every newspaper and all over the airwaves. But the question has now moved beyond why they were permitted to do that. It is now why they still exist at all: there is not going to be a war against Iran, always the real prize. It has all been in vain. Now shut up and go away.
I signed the Euston Manifesto, and I don't want a war with Iran.
ReplyDeleteI'm fascinated by your sudden conversion to believing US intelligence reports about covert middle eastern weapons programmes. Why believe them now, when they got it so wrong in Iraq in 2003?
So there's two reasons why you should have nothing to do with the EMG.
ReplyDeleteDavid, I'm not sure you answered the previous question.
ReplyDeleteI have one too. Given that you presumably believe that the US and UK governments are capable of changing intelligence reports to say what they want, why would the combined intelligence assessment of all 16 US agencies say (amongst other things) that Iran may have slowed their nuclear programme, if the US is looking for a casus belli for war with Iran? Wouldn't it have been easier for them to have concluded that Iran had steppd up their programme?
I'm not sure that the US is, any more. Bush has become less and less dependent on the neocon crazies (his father's word for them) during his second term. And this really is the end of them.
ReplyDeleteUnless, of course, either Clinton or Giuliani become President. They must be stopped.