Tag 2003 invasion of Iraq

Blair’s scared he’ll end up in the dock for war crimes

Looks like Blair is run­ning scared he’ll end up in the dock for war crimes. Not sur­pris­ing con­sid­er­ing the lengths he went to to help bring about the war of aggres­sion against Iraq.

The downward spiral of UK’s major political parties

Quarter of voters set to reject main parties at EU elec­tions, a Guardian/ICM sur­vey finds.

That’s still a lot of suck­ers out there. I still can’t fathom why they didn’t reject them after they took their coun­try to war on a pack of lies.

This soldier is a hero

Sup­port our troops” is the man­tra of the day. It’s code for “shutup and sup­port the war.” Many sol­diers may be played for pawns but some are my biggest her­oes, and the new­est hap­pens to be a expat Kiwi.

So what came before September 11?

Accord­ing to Jack Straw, in response to George Galloway’s quite reas­on­able point that the cow­ardly attacks on Afgh­anistan and Iraq increased the threat of ter­ror­ist attack in Bri­tain, “People have to remem­ber that 11 Septem­ber was in 2001 before the mil­it­ary action.” This cheap little chunk of self-deluded spin is an attempt to weave the story that the Septem­ber 11 attacks came out of the blue.

Galloway hands some ass

I agree with his ana­lysis of Gal­lo­way, but when, accord­ing to the Nurem­berg Tribunal, your Prime Min­is­ter com­mits the “supreme war crime,” and you re-elect him, I’d say there’s a few voters in Bri­tain will­ing to suf­fer fools.