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General Sir Michael Rose:

…three years ago this country was somehow led by the prime minister into war in Iraq where few, if any, of these requirements were met.Most importantly a clear justification for the war in Iraq was never sufficiently made by Tony Blair - for the intelligence he presented was always embarrassingly patchy and inconsistent.

What is more, his unequivocal statement to the House of Commons that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction that could be used within 45 minutes was made without being properly validated - for it was decided in Washington and London to launch the invasion of Iraq early, on the basis of the flimsy evidence available. This was done without asking the UN weapons inspectors, who were actually on the ground in Iraq, to investigate this allegation. Ultimately, as the inspectors suspected and as we now all know, it turned out that there were no such weapons. Britain had been led into war on false pretences.

It was a war that was to unleash untold suffering on the Iraqi people and cause grave damage to the west’s prospects in the wider war against global terror.

Melanie ‘Hitler in a dress’ Phillips:

Sir Michael’s comments may strike rational folk as idiotic beyond belief; they may marvel that such a senior military type should be mouthing the same poisonous inanities as the far left, which in a time of war might be thought to be distinctly treacherous. The terrible thing is that he is far from alone. A large swathe of the British establishment now think just like this. The scale of such a suspension of rationality, logic and truth throughout the British political, intellectual, religious, military and intelligence world in Britain is simply terrifying at a time of such desperate global peril. They just don’t get it.

Remember people, dissent against the eternal war is idiotic, and anyone who dares to question the magnificent state will be treated as a traitor. Of all the mindless drivel I have ever read Melanie Phillips is in a league of her own. You can imagine the haggard old bag frothing at the mouth as she hammers her ‘war is peace’ and ‘white is black’ articles into her computer - covering the monitor in a rabid foam as she screams about an ‘anti-Jewish conspiracy’.

Please Melanie, at least try to form some convincing arguments once in a while.

At least I am not the only one that hates her.

Possibly the best blonde joke ever?

It’s been a while since I have had enough energy to write anything, and I’m not really going to now, but I will add a few links to the best bloggers around who somehow manage to write consistantly - and brilliantly - about the fetid, rotten, sceptic, world in which we live.

Starting off I am staggered that I missed this until today:

Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.

Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has made over several years.

If I hear one more person qualify this invasion of privacy with the old ‘you have nothing to fear unless you are doing something wrong’, then I think I’ll beat them to death with a video camera. Still, at least it will reduce the terrorist masses to walking, perhaps they will get tired carrying all those explosives and detonate themselves harmlessly in fields.

Sticking with Allan Scullion, what is the biggest round off drinks you bought in last year? Chances are it won’t be as big as your slice of tax-money that has been consumed by our hard-working politicians:

the Commons recently consumed almost 800 pints of alcoholic drink for every day it sat.

However, this does not effect the average make-up of a politician, they are still largely full of shit.

One last link to the same blog, and a favourite topic for Allan is taxes, or is it just that there are so many taxes he cannot avoid the occasional accidental post on them:

Pocket Money Tax: Youngsters need to be indoctrinated into the tax system at the earliest opportunity to truly understand the value of redistribution. Children aged 5 and above will have to fill out an annual Tax Return form which needs to be certified by an independent accountant (supplied by the child’s parents or guardians.) There will be severe penalties for late returns. Tax rates will be set on a sliding scale determined by the child’s school grades. Money received from persons other than the parent or guardian will be classed as a “benefit in kind”. This should be submitted on a separate form P11D and will be taxed at 80%.

Moving on to a different blogger, and one of my favourite sites - essential daily reading - is Tim Ireland. Everyone should know who he is, and everyone should have already read or watched the below:

97% of Sun readers do not support Blair’s 90-day detention plan:

Let’s start with the numbers they do give…

A whopping 100,000 of you phoned our hotline to DEMAND 90 days’ detention for terror suspects.

Recent figures show the Sun’s circulation at 3,361,396.

(100000/3361396) x 100 = 2.97%

Hm. So we’d best correct that:

Less than 3% of you phoned our hotline to DEMAND 90 days’ detention for terror suspects.

Sergeant Tim Nunn cares about your safety:

BBC - Safety fears at ‘illegal’ protest: A police sergeant feared for his colleagues’ safety at a demonstration over new laws banning protests near Parliament, a court has heard… Mr Nunn told the court Mr Shaer used a loud hailer to call the police fascists and accused them of trying to gag demonstrators..

You’ll pardon me for saying so, but what a load of unmitigated bullshit.

The World according to Leo Blair - you’ll just have to watch this one.

Now just read every post Tim Ireland has ever written, really it is that good.

And finally I just couldn’t stop laughing reading this from Justin Mckeating, and I am glad he has maintained his sanity after looking at the New Labour ‘Respect’ campaign (also a big new topic for Tim Ireland…).

Well this is just a small slice of the stuff I have read recently, and who knows, maybe someday i’ll find the motivation to write something new…

Diplomacy. What does this word actually mean? Is it the process of sorting out national and international problems through rational, peaceful, inclusive, arguments? Or is it the gunboat, or nuclear threat curtailing any arguments against largely Western nuclear hegemony?

Whatever it is in recent times it has been paid largely lip service by Western governments who have already decided on policy, but want to appear that they tried ‘everything they can to avoid using force… blah blah blah’, before sending in the Airforce and destroying yet another Nations sovereignty.

Still, when it comes to ‘other’ nations, i.e. anyone not ‘conducive’ to the continuation of ’stability’ in the Westo-centric vision of American dominance - with the larger EU countries acting as groupies - then they should use diplomcay to resolve all problems, and be grateful if we even give them a chance to talk round a table.

Diplomacy, such as Iran for example, a country that wants nuclear power, something that we will not allow, something about the creation of WMD (this time we are threatening a country when we know they haven’t even made any WMD’s!), yet we don’t really have any evidence of a nuclear missile program. I guess we have to just trust in the governments of the US and UK to provide us with valid, reliable intelligence, surely they wouldn’t lie to us… again… would they?

Well we are about to find out, ‘IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei said Iran, which insists its nuclear program is for electricity only, had told his agency it wants to restart centrifuges at Natanz to enrich uranium on a “small scale.”‘ and of course the Western world is up in arms, I mean its not as if we have a nuclear weapons program, or vast stockpiles of them, or that the US is intending to use them (again…) this time in Iran… oh.

The stench of extreme hypocrisy is hard to stomach whenever you read soundbites from the neo-conservative scum that fester in the Whitehouse, and of course this issue is no different:

“They shouldn’t do it because it would really be a sign that they are not prepared to actually make diplomacy work,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week.

“By cutting the seals, the Iranian leadership shows its disdain for international concern and its rejection of international diplomacy,” Schulte [the US ambassador to the IAEA] said.

Perhaps similiar to the disdain for international concern and diplomacy when you invaded Iraq? Or like the disdain for international concern and diplomacy when you go ahead and nuke Iranian nuclear sites.

Diplomacy. It’s just the stuff that happens whilst you plan the next war.