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patentdragonOkay, let's just pull our troops out of Iraq, and see how long it takes for the "land of milk and honey" to appear, with happy people walking around the streets paved with silver and gold with their brightly-coloured umbrellas, singing happy songs, where no-one is ever sick or hungry, and every child has a gumdrop smile and a puppy...
Face it. It WON'T.
The insurgents WON'T magically lay down their weapons and become farmers and potters - or puppy-breeders. They'll carry on destablising Iraq, until it reaches civil war status, and a Middle Eastern "peacekeeping force" - probably from Iran and Syria - steps in to "bring peace"...
...by carving the country and its oil reserves up between them. And don't expect Britain or the US to come riding to the rescue this time.
Oh, and while we're at it, why don't we just give Iran some of horrible, nasty America's vast stack of nukes, all in the name of "playing fair". You'll probably cheer when Israel becomes the first target - but you won't be cheering when Israel strikes back, and Baghdad, Tehran, Dasmascus and Tripoli vanish off the map. The oil-fields will probably get hit too, and all that lovely oil will become radioactive for the next twenty-five thousand years...
...and do you know what? You suddenly won't be able to afford the next Morrisey CD, 'cause the price of plastic will rocket - yes, plastic comes from oil too, stupid - and all these silly little hippies will be begging for more benefit money 'cause the DVD of the latest anti-war movie just hit £200. You might just be able to earn the cash if you offer yourself to join all the sorry little chavs as they carry out their community service, digging up all the filthy, stinking land-fill sites in search of precious, recyclable plastic...
What's that? You just jabbed yourself with a dirty syringe, buried for years amongst the non-bio-degradeable throw-away nappies and mummified rat carcasses...?
Were we right to attack Saddam? He brought it upon himself, playing the biggest bluff of modern times, sowing the seeds of doubt as he got his security guards to delay the weapons inspectors just enough to make it look like he was trying to hide something, so that his neighbours wouldn't risk attacking him for fear of getting hit with all those chemicals and bacteria. We called his bluff. Simple as that.
One of the first non-combattants to be murdered by "outraged Iraqis" was a mine and munitions clearance expert. A couple of months later, we saw on TV the tragic consequences when an Iraqi told the terrible story of how he and his mate were collecting cluster bomblets from a field, and his mate got killed when one of them went off.
They're saying a whole bunch of money has been misused in the attempt to rebuild Iraq. Why not kidnap a few Spanish or Italians? They'll cough up plenty as they bend over back backwards to kiss terrorist ass...
Rant tanks vented, Captain. Consider this subject addressed in full, as far as I'm concerned.
Face it. It WON'T.
The insurgents WON'T magically lay down their weapons and become farmers and potters - or puppy-breeders. They'll carry on destablising Iraq, until it reaches civil war status, and a Middle Eastern "peacekeeping force" - probably from Iran and Syria - steps in to "bring peace"...
...by carving the country and its oil reserves up between them. And don't expect Britain or the US to come riding to the rescue this time.
Oh, and while we're at it, why don't we just give Iran some of horrible, nasty America's vast stack of nukes, all in the name of "playing fair". You'll probably cheer when Israel becomes the first target - but you won't be cheering when Israel strikes back, and Baghdad, Tehran, Dasmascus and Tripoli vanish off the map. The oil-fields will probably get hit too, and all that lovely oil will become radioactive for the next twenty-five thousand years...
...and do you know what? You suddenly won't be able to afford the next Morrisey CD, 'cause the price of plastic will rocket - yes, plastic comes from oil too, stupid - and all these silly little hippies will be begging for more benefit money 'cause the DVD of the latest anti-war movie just hit £200. You might just be able to earn the cash if you offer yourself to join all the sorry little chavs as they carry out their community service, digging up all the filthy, stinking land-fill sites in search of precious, recyclable plastic...
What's that? You just jabbed yourself with a dirty syringe, buried for years amongst the non-bio-degradeable throw-away nappies and mummified rat carcasses...?
TOUGH SHIT.
Were we right to attack Saddam? He brought it upon himself, playing the biggest bluff of modern times, sowing the seeds of doubt as he got his security guards to delay the weapons inspectors just enough to make it look like he was trying to hide something, so that his neighbours wouldn't risk attacking him for fear of getting hit with all those chemicals and bacteria. We called his bluff. Simple as that.
One of the first non-combattants to be murdered by "outraged Iraqis" was a mine and munitions clearance expert. A couple of months later, we saw on TV the tragic consequences when an Iraqi told the terrible story of how he and his mate were collecting cluster bomblets from a field, and his mate got killed when one of them went off.
M... H... B. *
They're saying a whole bunch of money has been misused in the attempt to rebuild Iraq. Why not kidnap a few Spanish or Italians? They'll cough up plenty as they bend over back backwards to kiss terrorist ass...
Rant tanks vented, Captain. Consider this subject addressed in full, as far as I'm concerned.
* My Heart Bleeds.
