If there’s a man writing for a British newspaper today who is more arrogant, stupid and ignorant than David Aaronovitch, his name must be John Rentoul.
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Remember this next time you see a British politician stand up and declare that some other country is flouting international law, or a threat to world peace:
Of course, whenever the misdeeds, crimes and muderous behaviour one of our dubious chums (Saudi Arabia, Israel) is brought up for questioning, it becomes “politically motivated”. But when we need to invade other countries, whether it is to grab resources or continue promoting our delusional sense of self-importance, we will dress it up with all the appeals to international law, peace and security.
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thabet
It’s ‘bad’ when public figures say they can ‘understand why people may become suicide bombers’
But it seems perfectly ok for boorish bigots like Bruce Anderson to openly fantasise about torturing someone’s wife and children; or perfectly ok for warmongering bastards like Nick Cohen to pretend to debate the ethics of torture.
Enlightenment, anyone?
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thabet
In response to the Binyam Mohamed court case verdict, Con(man) Coughlin complains:
Why don’t our judges just come clean and sign up with the Taliban?
I would like to respond with a complaint of my own: why doesn’t Con(man) Coughlin come clean about the fact that he is nothing more than a propaganda shill for the security services:
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Stephen Walt thinks Tony Blair’s appearance at the Chilcot inquiry vindicates the basis of the book he co-authored with John Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.
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Not finking straight:
@Dannythefink (who rarely shows much ‘finking’) proves that when you’re a down and out warmongering bastard, just invoke Munich, 1940, Hitler and Churchill.
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johnpi
Daniel Pipes: Obama can ‘save’ his presidency by bombing Iran.
Neoconservative scholar-activist Daniel Pipes has a new article on the leading conservative website National Review Online, in which he suggests that President Obama can “save” his presidency…by bombing Iran.
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thabet
This is Tony Blair:
And there should never be any doubt that he is a warmongering bastard:
It is doubtful whether this criminal will ever be brought to justice in this world, but it is worth supporting efforts to have Blair harassed wherever he goes for the rest of his life.
And on the topic of Blair, I am not at all surprised to see Martin Bright agreeing with Mad Mel.
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Wanted war criminal Tony Blair will attend the Iraq Inquiry on Friday. I don’t expect much in the way of hard questions, although the inquiry has revealed (or more accurately recycled) various views and facts on the legality of the invasion.
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Why was Iraq important to the UK?
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johnpi
Neocons, having gotten what they wanted on Afghanistan, now turning back to advocacy for an attack on Iran. Their biggest opponent: the Pentagon. Jim Lobe writes:
Look for more of this to come from [Bill] Kristol and the neo-cons in the coming weeks, as they re-align themselves with AIPAC and like-minded groups after their three-month campaign on behalf of Gen. McChrystal and the COINistas.
As eager as he is for war with Iran — the lead editorial in the new Weekly Standard is “A Nobel War Speech? Did Obama lay the groundwork for an eventual strike against Iran?” — Kristol doesn’t ask what may be the impact on McChrystal’s efforts of war with Iran. There’s every reason to believe, at least at this point, that the Pentagon is probably the national-security institution most adamantly opposed to an attack on Iran — be it by Israel or its own forces…
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johnpi
Tony Blair: The reason I took on secular Saddam was to fight radical Islam.
Tony Blair:
He also put the decision to go to war in Iraq in the context of a wider battle over Islam. He said: “I happen to think that there is a major struggle going on all over the world, really, which is about Islam and what is happening within Islam.” He said that this struggle had a “long way to go”.
Response:
Is he having a laugh? The decision to depose Saddam Hussein, the Baathist ruler of secular Iraq, was part of a wider global war against radical Islam? It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. The harsh truth is, as virtually every intelligence agency and terrorism expert on earth has confirmed, that the Iraq war exacerbated the threat from Islamist extremism; it acted as a recruiting sergeant for every Muslim terrorist group in existence. Meanwhile, every single inquiry into the Iraq war, on both sides of the Atlantic, has concluded that Saddam had no links to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda or the attacks of 11 September, 2001.
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johnpi
Opium, rape and the American way.
The warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and basic democratic freedoms, and as heavily involved in opium trafficking as the Taliban. The moral lines we draw between us and our adversaries are fictional.
The uplifting narratives used to justify the war in Afghanistan are pathetic attempts to redeem acts of senseless brutality.
War cannot be waged to instill any virtue, including democracy or the liberation of women.
War always empowers those who have a penchant for violence and access to weapons.
War turns the moral order upside down and abolishes all discussions of human rights.
War banishes the just and the decent to the margins of society.
And the weapons of war do not separate the innocent and the damned. An aerial drone is our version of an improvised explosive device. An iron fragmentation bomb is our answer to a suicide bomb. A burst from a belt-fed machine gun causes the same terror and bloodshed among civilians no matter who pulls the trigger.
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thabet
Tony Blair told he has ‘blood on his hands’ by father of a dead soldier:
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The snub came at a reception held after the memorial in St. Paul’s Cathedral, where the archbishop of Canterbury criticised policymakers for failing to properly consider the human cost of the Iraq war.
Peter Brierley, whose 28-year-old son Shaun died in March 2003, refused to shake Blair’s hand when he offered it, telling the ex premier: “I’m not shaking your hand, you’ve got blood on it.”Blair was ushered away, but afterwards Brierley said: “I understand soldiers go to war and die but they have to go to war for a good reason and be properly equipped to fight.
“I believe Tony Blair is a war criminal. I can’t bear to be in the same room as him. I can’t believe he’s been allowed to come to this reception,” he added after the reception at the Guildhall in central London.
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thabet
A question from Nick Kabat, a student at the University of Buffalo, forced Tony Blair to respond to (and lie, dodge, waffle around) the Goldstone report. Apparently, the question was ‘unmoderated’ and upset the university’s vice president.
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Dick Cheney, warmonger:
Dick Cheney, fearmonger:
Dick Cheney, torturemonger:
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Sticking with the Iraq War, Con(man) Coughlin says:
I’ve been sceptical about what yet another inquiry into the Iraq war might achieve…
The reason Coughlin is sceptical is because he is well-known conduit for the lies that were fed to the public in the run up to the war. Any inquiry which reminds the public of the lies that Coughlin promoted has to bad for his ‘journalistic’ credentials.
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Absurd:
So what will Bush be? Stupid cop to Tony Blair’s lying cop?
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thabet
Is this meant to be a joke? Cherie Booth complains about the African Union’s refusal to handover Omar al-Bashir:
For those who don’t know Booth is the wife of Tony Blair. You know the man who lied to the country; took part in illegal (corrupt) invasion of another country; did his best to conceal our involvement in torture of terrorism suspects; and actively opposed an investigation into corruption involving Saudi Arabia and a British firm.
(Also I doubt anyone is going to believe The Guardian ‘forgot’ to open the piece to public scrutiny. The comments were conveniently opened when the article disappeared off the front page.)
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johnpi
The American people are developing a ‘crush’ on the Iranian people – the ‘indelible faces’ that we see on TV and the web which we are coming to admire and care about. These images will make it that much harder for warmongering right-wingers in the US to goad Americans into supporting violence on the part of their own government against Iran at any point in the near future.
If you want to kill with a clean conscience, the faces of the enemy had better be blank. Start to see them as human beings and it becomes harder to blockade and bomb them, to mine, and pollute, and “destabilize.” …
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thabet
Nile Gardiner, a stupid neoconservative, writes:
What’s Reagan doing here? Helping foment the downfall of an unelected, undemocratic regime that is responsible for exporting extremism around the world, and some of the worst violations of human rights?
And since Gardiner works for something (hilariously) called the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, here’s one more:
Do you suppose Thatcher is telling a man responsible for torture, disappearance, and other abuses that he has been very naughty boy, and threatening to take his toys away?Neocons are fraudulent humanitarians.
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thabet
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation has launched a new campaign which argues that “religious literacy” is a “vital skill” in a globalised and multicultural society.
I am waiting to sign up for the course on how to bullshit your way into high profile, well-paid, jobs despite being responsible for launching illegal, costly, invasions of countries based on fabricated evidence.
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thabet
Did Gordon Brown’s “Presbyterian conscience” abandon him when he voted ‘very strongly’ for the illegal invasion of a country which posed no threat to the UK; which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people; and has cost the UK a fortune?
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Tony Blair calls on other people to ‘wait for the facts’ regarding torture allegations against MI5, while refusing to condemn ‘rendition’ (kidnapping).
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James Wellman interviewed 450 liberal and evangelical Christians, and found a “close correspondence between American Christianity and war making”.
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johnpi
Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic is pr flaking for Netanyahu and Israel in advocating for war with Iran. Richard Silverstein has the low-down:
Here and in Comment is Free I wrote, based on deep sources, about the Israeli ‘perception management’ campaign here in the U.S. to persuade us that war with Iran is both necessary, inevitable, and salutary for the world. This campaign takes many and varied forms. Even in some of its least unsavory forms, it involves monitoring perceived Congressional opponents of Israel’s interests, providing assistance to Congressional advocates promoting harsh policy against Iran, and penning op-ed columns warning of the Iran danger, passing them on to willing editors and slapping a promient local Jewish leader’s name on the resulting product.
Jeff Goldberg is too smart for that. He’s a talented enough writer to pen his own propaganda subtly advocating war with Iran.
Silverstein breaks down Goldberg’s misappropriation of religious language for warmongering purposes, and other lies.
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Britain ended six years of ‘combat operations’ (illegal invasion based on lies followed by a corrupt occupation) in Iraq this past week.
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I see the neoconservatives are planning their future wars should they get into power in future.
(Via Alex Massie.)
