In retaliation for the protest marches Tony Blair has pulled out the big guns in support of his 'moral argument'. (No...not John Prescott...he's just a big fat bastard.) Apparently some 'Iraqi' student sent him an e-mail explaining why he must bomb the shit out of Saddam (and, presumably, hundreds of thousands of the student's fellow country men in the process). Tony was so impressed that he quoted from the e-mail during his 'You're entitled to your opinions but I'm not listening to them' speech in Glasgow. Since that time the student responsible has appeared on just about every news and current affairs programme going. And I must admit she's difficult to argue against. After all...she's a political exile from Iraq. She knows how terrible Saddam's regime is and if she's in favour of war then who are we to say different?
Well...who we are, are people who obviously give more of a shit about the deaths of innocent people than she fucking is...that's who! Let's look at this in a slightly different context. Supposing an Irish Republican goes into exile in America. And while she's there she goes on about how evil the British Government is. (I'd be tempted to agree with her I must admit...Ireland should be handed back to the Irish regardless of what the majority of Northern Irish voters think...the rest of us are sick to the back teeth of the place.) So George Bush decides that, clearly, this political exile is speaking against a cruel regime and on behalf of her own people, thus prompting him to declare war on Britain. When you look at a parallel like that, this somewhat biased student's argument doesn't amount to much and Tony Blair's use of said argument for more spin and more propaganda amounts to even less.
For starters, she doesn't live in Iraq. She won't be the one witnessing her family die when the bombs start to fall. She'll be tucked up in her student lodgings with her copy of 'The Margaret Thatcher Years' beneath her pillow thinking about how she helped to change history and what a superb advantage this will give her in the business world in years to follow.
To draw another comparison, during the Vietnam war America decided to liberate the Vietnamese from their communist oppressors. The amount of carnage, upset and slaughter caused by the American's attempts to 'do the moral thing' were far, far worse than the 'inhumane conditions' that the Vietnamese were suffering before. The Vietnamese people themselves (i.e. those who lived through the suffering as opposed to those who were studying home economics at Bristol University at the time) said that they'd rather have stuck with the original oppression than have the American intervention. I don't particularly see why Iraqi people would think any differently. Better the devil you know than the murderous bastards you don't.
As somebody who has lived under Blair's evil regime (a regime continuing the countless years of Thatcher's and Major's dictatorships) I can say without hesitation that I'd rather put up with Uncle Tony's annoying bullshit than be invaded by America. For any Iraqi exiles reading this, I realise the Iraqi people might not have much of a voice...but whatever the Iraqi is for "Fucking Hell!" I'm sure they'll be screaming it loudly enough the minute the bombs start falling.
'Nuff said.
Ninety-six: Dr John Reid, Labour Party Chairman and irritating spokes-anus for Tony Blair. Quite possibly the most chicken-livered Glaswegian ever born, this weasly man failed to have a single thought of his own throughout his life but somehow managed to find prominence due to a series of brown-tongued antics. After being born the son of a bruised haggis and a ruddy-faced fishwife in Dunfermline in 1956, Reid began his rise to power by copying everyone and everything else around him. He passed his O levels by photocopying pages from the encyclopaedia Britannica and attained his scholarship by tracing the words from the examination paper of the student sitting next to him. (Allegedly.) Under the nom-de-plume 'Max Reid Weber' he then republished the 'Ethics of Protestant Society' and made a small fortune from it in 1975.
His plagiarism of other people's political sentiments went undetected due to it being smothered by his thick Glaswegian accent. However the charade finally started to wear thin in 2003 during the anti-war protests. Shortly after Primeminister Blair's rebuttal of the anti-war rally, Reid went on television using the exact same arguments that his snivelling, jug-eared boss had just put forward. There wasn't a single variation in words, sentence structure, ideology and/or intonation. It became even more obvious that Reid was nothing more than a feedback loop when he began to regurgitate the reporter's questions and hurl them back word for word. Fortunately he was sacked three months later with the same sort of gusto that his beloved leader met his end, before going on to write: "John Reid: My Memoirs as Tony Blair."
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