Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Manuel Writes

"A confirmation that indeed TNR and thewife were the perfect guests. No stray
flatulence here; no gratuitous calumny there.

A quick sentence or two on morals: has it escaped notice that the US army of
occupation has killed fifteen unarmed civilians and injured ninety seven in
the two days just past? Cue news interview with a Liberator: well, this
crowd (protesting against the Liberators using their children�s school as a
barracks and asking for it back �Ed) started throwing rocks, so we shot
back. In self defence.

Anyway, the moral poser. Bush started out on this unprecedented gambit (we�
ll attack a sovereign state on the basis that it may possess at some point
in the future the component parts of machinery which may pose a threat if
used against us although this threat is speculative�.this has never been
done before, in history, nowhere on the globe), anyway (2) Bush has always
been a loony. This was to be expected. What was unexpected was that he would
gain legitimacy from the UK Prime Minister. This was reviled worldwide as an
illegal and immoral act, and left to their own the perpetrators would have
been easily seen as the pariahs they are. But the prop given to Bush by
Blair was the legitimacy needed to do it. Blair had in his hands for the few
days he mattered the opportunity to reshape the new imperialism: i.e., deny
it. He chose not to, and takes more of the blame than Bush, for my part.

By extension, anyone still carrying a Labour Party card is responsible for
granting Blair legitimacy. In failing to resign or leave, they are in
acquiesce. That goes for any socialist in the Party or in office who kept
their mouths shut. Any voice in those crucial moments was important, and the
silence of so many mouths was in the end the impetus for the planet�s new
rulers.

We could have had European-led peace coalition supervising extended
containment and disarmament. Instead we�ve got 1500 dead civilians, a puppet
state, Texas-lite pumping oil revenue direct into the State Department and a
whole new territory for the Devil Sharon to eye greedily for his
settlements."

Don't think Manuel missed anyone there, did he?

posted by timesnewroman at 9:29 PM  

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