Political soundness of mind

I could not let it wait too long before thanking Gordon Brown for renewing my faith in good old fashioned Socialist values and the role he has played in leading not on the UK but also Europe and the US on a trip to recovery. The recession still has a way to travel but at least the melt down has been arrested a little.
I always believed many years ago that G. Brown would come out of the shadows of the former Labour Party Leader John Smith [1938-1994] having spent many years learning from the great man, whose life was unfortunately cut short.
Now that he has stepped out of the darker recesses of the shadows left by Blair G. Brown has been able to show the depth of his political prowess without breaking into a sweat or, as Blair would’ve done, a song and dance about it.
It is now time to put an end to the Greedy and self motivated rule of law in both Governments and Banking systems alike and a final nail or knife in the back to the legacy left by Thatcherism, New Labour [Blair] and the Zionist that is GW Bush.

If only he was never there

The author of an ode to Tony Blair that has been doing the rounds is puzzling MPs today.

At Downing Street upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't Blair
He wasn't Blair again today
Oh how I wish he'd go away

Who is behind the poem, based on the quatrain by US poet Hughes Mearns? [Guardian politicsblog -Helene Mulholland]

He is my own take on the poem, again relating to Tony Blair

As once I voted, because I care
I saw a man, who wasn't there
And now that he has gone away
Oh how wish it had began this way

OETM 2008

Our mistake, soz God

Politicians will rarely, if ever admit, to making a mistake therefore it should come as no surprise that when a mistake on the scale of that made when Messrs Bush and Blair took the decision to invade Iraq both will continue to deny any wrong doing, after all it will affect their earning potential after office should they ever do so.

Even now Bush continues, as no doubt Blair will, to defend their catastrophic blunder into war as can be seen in this video posted on the Guardian website, or this cartoon from the same paper.

If neither of these two men can be bought to account for their decision then perhaps we could be allowed to ‘water-board’ them until they admit to the error of their ways.

Failing that, perhaps a rendition flight into Iran? No, I am too humane for either of these options so perhaps bring them before some of the best interrogators this country has to offer, as in serious journalists, in order for them to be continuously grilled, metaphorically, until they are backed so far into a corner they cannot possibly use their evasive skills, or just plain stupid answers in the case of Bush, to wheedle their way out and admit to the truth.

They should have nothing to fear because both admit to having God on their side and I would not mind either of them using him in their defence, provided he made a personal appearance that is.

Opening old wounds, good

At long last a debate into the War in Iraq has begun, albeit it on BBC Newsnight. These debates follow short dramas based around the some of the main protagonists in the UK in the build up to war, 10 days to war. Unfortunately it is much too late to reverse the decision to go to war but perhaps it will open the wounds enough to bring those involved, namely T. Blair to account.

What was the point?

So, they have executed Saddam Hussein, which came all of a sudden in the end. But what has this latest fiasco in Iraqi served the Iraqi people, The Middle East and the rest of the World?
Not a lot in the scheme of things.
If this is democracy then it doesn’t pass as anything I recognise.

The invasion never discovered any WMD, it did however achieve their desired aim of regime change. Why didn’t they just use one bullet in the first place and assassinate him if that’s what they wanted, it would’ve been much cheaper financially and, more importantly, cost less loss of life and instability in the region.

How many people will be horrified by the thought of assassinating a despot leader?

Not as many as have been appalled by the current state of affairs.

Your legacy Messer’s Bush and Blair?

– A dead man and a shite load of Arab and Islamic mistrust and hate for those of us in the West.