To a site that tries to add a little biting humour to our troubled world and shine
some light in some very dark corners. My keywords include most of the buzzwords that
the spooks earn their living scanning so if they don’t take an interest in this site
they just aren’t trying. But sorry guys, I don’t have a hotline to the fanatics and
terrorists. I can’t tell you anything you don’t know already. Maybe you could try Messrs
Bush & Blair, International Crusaders Inc. They must have some inside contacts because
they are always claiming to know what the bombers are thinking. These “enemies of
democracy”, they tell us, “hate our freedoms”. Maybe they do. But I must have missed the
episode of Room 101 where Bin Laden said “Hey, I really hate your freedoms!” It’s a shame, because little
snippets like this can be useful when trying to get inside the mind of someone who might
blow you to bits.
So call me a cynic, but for the time being I’ll have to file that official statement
under “Meaningless & unhelpful propaganda intended only to whip up sufficient anger &
confusion in
the general public in the hope that they might turn a blind eye to outrageous political acts
including an illegal war, arbitrary assassinations, alliances with psychopathic dictators,
eradication of the wrong kind of free speech (al-Jazeera's, for example) and the gradual
erosion of civil liberties.” (Oh, and now torture and sexual abuse of prisoners, for no
apparent reason other than to degrade them.) It’s a pretty big
file – it already contains a plagiarised
PhD thesis with a few new buzzwords pasted in, a crudely forged document about uranium
from Niger, more platitudes than you could shake a stick at and, of course, WMD.
There are times when you really want to believe Tony. His articulate sincerity, his
heartfelt angst, his willingness to be unpopular. When he is briefly lost for words he
implores like John the Baptist (unlike Bush, who just implodes, like Scooby-Doo). There's
something eerily familiar about all this. Like Thatcher, but with a Hollywood makeover.
It was when (to justify raining bombs down on Afghan civilians) he beseached us to
remember the 9/11 victims' desperate voices as they made their last frantic calls on
mobile phones, that I wanted to vomit. The transition was complete: under a slick non-stick
veneer it was pure Orwellian newspeak. War is peace. Lies are truth. Long live Big
Brother.
He "knew" there were WMDs in Iraq. It wasn't about cosying up to America, honest. "It
isn't about oil, trust me." I don't trust you Tony. And I don't buy the sincerity. You
couldn't have "known" about WMDs because there weren't any. Ergo - you're rationale
sucks. What's that you say? It was still the right thing to do because we ousted a tyrant.
But I remember clearly, in the run-up to war, when you were accused by broadcasters on air
of lurching from one pretext to another, you said defiantly, "This has always only been
about WMDs!" But if you're now playing the tyrant card...
Saddam was a tyrant the west created and propped up. In the 1950s he was just a small-time
crook, until the CIA gave him his big career break when they hired him as an assassin.
That was before your time, of course. But what about your new best mates - Cheney & Rummy
- and the sanctions-busting that US companies like Halliburton were doing in the 90s? THAT
wasn't before THEIR time. We know that because of the picture of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's
hand with a big smile on his face - laughing all the way to the bank. The blood bank.
But, hey, if you're sincere and you want
to rid the world of tyrants, that's great. There's a huge list of countries to invade:
China, Saudi Arabia (ouch!), Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan (ouch! ouch!), Libya (hmm?), Burma,
North Korea...the DTI could provide you
with a list of their clients to save you compiling your own. "But I've got letters from
grateful Iraqis!" How many letters, Tony?
Enough letters to outnumber the civilians you and George have killed? This many?
That's how many times the number who died in the WTC? And
rising. In fact, authoritative reports think it's a lot more: Maybe this many.
Not that there was any connection between that and Iraq, of course. But there is now, isn't
there! You've seen to that. You know the law. It's prima facie; I rest my case.
I don't think you were mistaken. I don't think you were misinformed. I think you lied.
I only said THINK - I have no intention to be libellous. That is to say, according
to the evidence before me, and notwithstanding Hutton's whitewash and Butler's greywash,
the only plausible explanation that occurs to me is prime ministerial mendacity.
As you may have gathered, this site is not neutral. And it doesn't claim to be! But it is
about seeking truth - as far as such a thing is possible. And sharing information, and
debating the issues, and thinking and responding - in peaceful and constructive ways.
The site is small, but growing; so check back once in a while. Links welcome! I am compiling a
"Did you know...?" section and everything in it will be verifiable and in the public domain,
if you know where to look. I just want to make it a bit easier for people to make
some of the connections - and make up their own minds.
And the cartoons are my very small contribution to world sanity. Send me yours if you like.
Am I an extremist? Of course. Extremely opposed to aggression, exploitation
and corruption. Extremely sick of the corporate greed and cynicism that causes so much
human suffering and environmental destruction. Extremely angry that my
country (the UK) took part in an illegal war and that we are all now a target for terrorists.
Extremely confused that the leader of a party I (formerly) voted for seems determined to follow
a man whose stupidity is matched only by the threat he poses to humanity. Extremely
appalled that a majority of Americans have returned that man to power. But my extremism
is a joke compared with that of our leaders; their extremism is... NO JOKE.
