British MP George Galloway's appearance before American Senators was a joy to watch. The guy's politics are just plain wrong - an unreconstructed socialist - but the contest between Ivy League Americans and a pugnacious Glasweigian made brilliant television.
Is the USA finally starting to understand what a vast con it's been subjected to?
100,000 people dead (far more than Saddam ever killed) on a whim, a prayer, and a pack of lies. No WMDs, no link to bin Laden (all obvious from day one) and some $73bn a year bled into the sand.
Was it really about oil? Was it really about Dubya's dad? I like to think the blame goes further: the American people needed to see dead Arabs. Didn't matter who they were (or even if many were lookalikes such as Kurds, Turks, and Assyrians); Americans just wanted blood to flow, needed the bodycount to assuage its pain. Chasing down a few terrorists would never have been enough.
After 911 it became politically impossible not to invade a Middle Eastern militarised nation, and Iraq was just the easiest option.
And in the UK, Blair's new bills are out: more ID cards giving a license to snoop, more anti-terror laws that'll be used against everyone else, and ever more nanny-stating of a Britain already overtaxed, suffocated by red tape, and Health & Safetied to death.
I don't think I like the way the world's going.
Is the USA finally starting to understand what a vast con it's been subjected to?
100,000 people dead (far more than Saddam ever killed) on a whim, a prayer, and a pack of lies. No WMDs, no link to bin Laden (all obvious from day one) and some $73bn a year bled into the sand.
Was it really about oil? Was it really about Dubya's dad? I like to think the blame goes further: the American people needed to see dead Arabs. Didn't matter who they were (or even if many were lookalikes such as Kurds, Turks, and Assyrians); Americans just wanted blood to flow, needed the bodycount to assuage its pain. Chasing down a few terrorists would never have been enough.
After 911 it became politically impossible not to invade a Middle Eastern militarised nation, and Iraq was just the easiest option.
And in the UK, Blair's new bills are out: more ID cards giving a license to snoop, more anti-terror laws that'll be used against everyone else, and ever more nanny-stating of a Britain already overtaxed, suffocated by red tape, and Health & Safetied to death.
I don't think I like the way the world's going.
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