Cheating Blair
I had the greatest trouble finding an english link to this story, so here's a
dutch one. Since I usually look for my news stories on the BBC website and didn't find anything about this, I had to search the papers. I now hope the Times isn't some right-winged paper. But anyway. An
english link.
Mr Blair's "PROOF, yes COMPELLING EVIDENCE" is copied from a thesis a student wrote 12 years ago. And like a real stupid schoolboy he copied it complete with typographical and grammatical errors. Way to go Tony. Tony now says that the evidence still stands, of course, but honestly, how would he know?!?
Meanwhile Rumsfeld says it's a disgrace that Germany, France and Belgium (though I doubt he mentioned Belgium, he probably thinks we're a part of France and Germany) have not voted for some UN resolution that would make the step to war that little bit easier. Excuse the three countries for having a critical mind and not gobbling up the propaganda we hear everyday.
This pisses me off to no end. We know the war is gonna happen. No matter what the majority thinks, no matter what the minority thinks, no matter what the UN, little Belgium or bloody Uzbekistan say. I can dance around naked in front of the White House, I can put myself on fire (true chinese style), I can send a petition with millions of signatures. No matter what. No matter if they find evidence or not, the war is gonna happen. Tony and Georgie would like some oil.
Granted, Hussein is a dictator, a criminal, a murderer... He should be gone. But this is not the way. This will only leave vulnerable people more vulnerable to his (hussein's) propaganda machine because they will be rendered to poverty because of the war. Because their children won't be able to get proper food, won't be able to go to school and will definitely not find jobs and make money. Why don't the Americans look at their heroes, who preached peaceful resistence? Where's Martin Luther King's spirit gone off to?
This is about a president who knows he's a bad president. Who knows his home politics stink and who knows people will avenge him for that in the next election. So he draws attention away from all that by playing with bombs and guns, literally following his father's footsteps in the Iraq case. Thus ensuring a bigger chance at re-election.
And all we can do is protest and scream and shout and write angry little things in our weblogs. And then we'll have to sit back and watch the bombs drop.
