Blair's epitaph

[AlfredJPruffock]

Of War and Peace the truth just twists
Its curfew gull just glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides
With his candle lit into the sun
Though its glow is waxed in black

All except when searching WMDs;
beneath the trees of Eden

The lamppost stands with folded arms
Its iron claws attached
The savage soldier sticks his head in sand
And then complains
All and all can only fall
With a crashing but meaningless blow

And there are no sins
behind the Gates of Eden


The foreign sun, it squints upon
Saddam and Bush and sons
As friends and other strangers
From their fates try to resign
Leaving men wholly, totally free
To do anything they wish to do but die

And there are no trials
beyond the Gates of Eden

At dawn my lover comes to me
And tells me of her dreams
With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
Into the ditch of what each one means

At times I think there are no words
But these to tell what we dare
And there will be no Tony Blair
inside the Gates of Eden

[Not So Wise]

So it is all about numbers then Fungus? If Iraq was an unjustified war then so was the Balkans war

In no particular order for each

Iraq was about: Money (Oil and reconstruction contracts), Pride (Not finishing off SH was always a blot on Daddy Bush's presidency), political misdirection (They had not got Bin Ladin, had no clue where he was, but had to be seen to to be doing something) and lies.

Chances of wests objectives being reached by outside interfearance via arms, aka a free, democratic and most importantly, because this is the middle east after all, secular, westen style society? Very very slim. Best one can hope for now is another version of Iran

Yugoslav wars: Active and current genocides in progress (this decided which "side" the west would join, little more), fear of conflict spreading (While you might think they were far away from the UK they were not far...and these things do have a habit of speading in Europe, just look at WW1), Economic (refugees were flooding surounding countries and though Europe, thus putting pressure on them)

Chances of wests objectives being reached by outside interfearance via arms, aka break of the vicious circle of violence that had established itself there and a semi stable county inside the borders of continental Europe? Reasonable to good


The two "wars" are worlds apart

[Chico]

Why do you tree huggers always bleat on about the war? Time to change the record -if you want to bleat about something bleat about the Iranian President calling for Israel to be wiped off the map while at the same time developing nuclear weapons.

[wendigo100]

Why do you tree huggers always bleat on about the war? Time to change the record -if you want to bleat about something bleat about the Iranian President calling for Israel to be wiped off the map while at the same time developing nuclear weapons.

Blair and Bush obviously haven't got as much evidence about Iran as they did about Iraq!

[stackpole]

Blair and Bush obviously haven't got as much evidence about Iran as they did about Iraq!

That's because JK Rowling hasn't written it yet!

[AlfredJPruffock]

Mr John Maslam, owner of the Hot Wax nightclub, the record chain of the same name and of Fair Winds , the ledgendary store where you could get the finest brass horns.

Being a practical business man Mr Maslam had concealed from his employees his extracurricular work as the Chief Herald of the returned celestial being.

He issued press releases via a PR subsidary of the Valence Agency stating that

Our client is in a position to state that the the imminent Glory of the Coming of the Lord is at hand.

The Angel Azraeel is with us in the inner city of London, probably in Camden, Brickhall Tower Hamlets or Hackney and will reveal himself soon, perhaps within days or weeks.

All this was obscure to the three tall languid attendants in the Fair Winds store, which was why none of them could believe their eyes when they saw their hard nosed employer suddenly undergo a complete change of personality and rushed over to the wild unshaven stanger as if he was God Almighty, with his worn Armani suit and slicked down Robert De Niro hairstyle above proliferating eyebrows.

I will attend to this Gentleman myself he said pushing the other staff aside.

Anyway the stranger had this fat money belt and started dishing out these high denomination notes, pointed to a trumpet on the top shelf and said thats the one.

Now the truly amazing part, Mr Masala was up the ladder pronto, and refused payment !

The hard nosed Masala !!

Last of all the customer turns to the whole store and yells at the top of his voice

I am the Right Hand of God

Straight up, you wouldnt credit it ...Masala was right out of it and fell to his knees. then the stranger said

I name this trumpet Azraeel the Exterminator of men !

And we just stood there, I tell you, turned to stone, because all around this fücking insane certifiable bastards head was this bright glow, you know ?

Streaming out like a point behind his head.

A Halo.


Say what you like the shop assistants said afterwards, but we saw what we saw.

S Rushdie The Satanic Verses

[Mordac]

Alf this is rubbish. Can you stop posting extracts from this drivel. I can't believe we wasted millions protecting the author of this crap.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Alf this is rubbish. Can you stop posting extracts from this drivel. I can't believe we wasted millions protecting the author of this crap.

If you dont like it ,you could always issue a Fatwa.

[Fungus]

Why do you tree huggers always bleat on about the war? Time to change the record -if you want to bleat about something bleat about the Iranian President calling for Israel to be wiped off the map while at the same time developing nuclear weapons.

Even better, let's play both records.

Anyway, I don't envy the night watchman at the Iranian nuclear plant. The bagel munchers might soon be saying shalom to him in their own special way.

Fungus.

[Fungus]

If you dont like it ,you could always issue a Fatwa.

How about a low fatwa?

Fungus