War Hero Blair insulted by Tree Huggers

[VectraMan]

Dictators do tend to bring stability. You won't hear our politicians say that though as it goes against the official line that democracy solves all problems.

[threaded]

We are governed by morons.

That is nearly what democracy means. It comes from the Greek, demokratia, demos + kratin + ia, demos = the people, kratin = cretins, ia = to rule.

HTH

[sunnysan]

Iraq

My opinion is that such an event is neither right nor wrong from a politcal standpoint. Evry major leader in the world will do whatever it takes to further their interests, which in theory in a democracy should be the interests of the country as a whole.


In this murky world, you cannot accuse the one party of terrorism and the other of liberators. Everybody is fighting to prtotect their own interests.

Us and the Yanks love to spit vitriol on ME splinter groups calling them terrorists while we, although politically clean, are very often complicit in terrorism by proxy.

I think the biggest problem is , IMHO that Bliar, although his intentions may be sound, seems to be too much of an idealist and has not got a realistic comprehension of the realities of geopolitical power.

Which is why I would rather see booze soaked corrupt blue blood octogenerians in power than middle class, social idealists like we have at the moment.

[stackpole]

We went to war for Blair's legacy.

Except, instead of the great wartime leader who rid the world of the bogeyman, he simply destabilized the region. What a ranker!

There are plenty of new Saddam Hussein's waiting to take the place of the original.

[Central-Scrutiniser]

Doubleplusgood statistic follows ....

Fetzer also noted today's Zogby International Poll, which shows that 90% of American troops in Iraq believe that they are fighting to avenge Saddam Hussein's role in 9/11.


"This would be funny if it weren't so sad", Fetzer said. "The administration falsely linked Iraq to 9/11 even though it knew better", he remarked.

[sappatz]

tony blair

technically tony blair is a war criminal and he could be indicted for the following crimes : (nuremberg and hague trials come to mind)

- crimes against peace : preventive war of aggression against sovereign state, without any UN endorsement, and on fabricated grounds (no weapons of mass destruction were ever found)

needless to say that preventive warfare goes against all UN and international admitted conventions

- breach of geneva, hague, international human rights by systematic torture of prisoners in concentration camps. Some of those concentration camps are secret (secret cia prisons in eastern europe) and not accessible to the red cross. Even guantanamo is not acessible to the red cross
Even uncle adolf allowed the international red cross access to some camps.


Now like adolf hitler before him, tony blair plays the card of patriotism bny honoring war heroes. Which "war" ?

[Fungus]

Dictators do tend to bring stability. You won't hear our politicians say that though as it goes against the official line that democracy solves all problems.

That was the official line for years. To her shame Mrs. T. supported apartheid and the Shah of Iran. And they supported oppressive Middle East regimes as does Blair and his slimies. But do you remember Iraq Invasion 1 after that cheeky chappy Saddam strolled over to Kuwait with some of his mates for an extended party that got a bit too rowdy? "Oy, Saddam, turn the music down, or we'll launch the largest land based tank invasion ever seen"

I think the problem as they see it is that oppressive regimes lead to Islamo-Fascist terrorism and instability.

Though I do wonder why they wanted to invade Iraq.