The Americans. Yes, those damn Yankee dimwits run by the warmonger cowboy Bush are, er, going to look after the people that helped them. Weird, eh? Why can’t we do that? We followed the Americans’ lead in invading the country and are now not actually going to bother salvaging any people, or sense of dignity, from what’s turned out to be ‘a little bit of good intentions gone wrong.”
So, write to your MP (you know, that one - it’s very easy and you can do it by e-mail) and ask him or her to attend the Parliamentary Speaker Meeting, on Tuesday October 9th from 7 to 9 p.m. Remember, they’re your representatives, not the other way around. Be polite. This isn’t about being pro- or anti-war, it’s about (puts on Tony Blair mask, presses fingertips together, stares earnestly at camera) “Doing the right thing.”
ok, so, i’m taking offense to being a dimwit. i didn’t vote for that loser, either time. i want to impeach the sob. what happened in iraq is just wrong, and it’s still wrong.
however, i do believe we have a responsibility to “do the right thing” and not leave those poor people in a disaster area.
what a mess bush has made. bah.
Gwen: Not too much offenc/se intended - that’s just how you warmongering, imperialist Americans are often displayed ….. You’re speaking to someone who’d happily live the American dream - I’ve always considered the Constitution a kind of “England starts off with individual rights and passes the ball (okay with musketballs, in the 1770s) to the US to carry on).
I was in Kuwait after the liberation in 1991 with the Red Cross and after seeing what had been done (I was responsible for trying to find the Filipino maids who’d been taken by Iraqi troops out into the desert, gang-raped and left to die) I was pretty, er, glad is the wrong word, but I felt the invasion justifiable.
Yes, despite the lies and manipulation of the press and the knowledge that people would die. People like me. Soldiers who had taken 18 plus years to develop into humans who would be torn apart into pieces of flesh and sinew in seconds, that could never be put back together. Iraqi children, who’d never even get to be 18 plus. I thought there could be a better life for everyone else in the end.
I thought we were doing the right thing. I didn’t believe the jibberish about Britain 45 minutes away from attack that was printed in the papers here, but I thought it was right, if mercenary.
But we messed it up, we sent far too few troops to control the country in the aftermath, we have a media which feels duped and seems to see “fair and balanced” as broadcasting enemy propaganda. We (or rather, you) have a president who recently sent extra troops (the surge) and said - it’s working (and from discussions I’ve had with military types, it is) so, he’s cutting back the number of troops there because extra troops are working. Hmmmm.
My personal finger of guilt points at Donald Rumsfeld and not sending at least 500,000 troops. Yes there would have been death, damage and destruction, but there just aren’t enough people on the ground and we’re being played by the Iranians like a pack of cards.
Should we have invaded? I still think yes (but that’s personal experience - your mileage may vary), but if you’re going to engage in warfare, you either have to go all out for it and accept that innocents are going to be killed and maimed and you’re going to take casualties, or not bother at all.
The scary thong is that after this the UK and US are going to be very wary of getting involved anywhere, so if you rule Burma, for example, now’s the time to get out there and get rid of those pesky monks. The west won’t interfere.
The whole thing is a nightmare.