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Blair, Blix, Bush and Iraq
Now that Weapons of Mass Destruction has turned into Words of Massive Delusion its fall out with the uncalled for destruction of Iraq and the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Iraqis has become sour grapes for Blair and Bush; the grapes of wrath for the perpetrators of an unnecessary War of Massive Destruction.
Having brushed aside the UN and summarily dismissed Blix as incompetent in discovering WMDs in Iraq, the Bush and Blair combination with bombastic verbosity and aggressive eloquence rushed into an unnecessary war when other saner UN members of Security Council desired restraint.
Now the whole charade has come unstuck. Blair is between the devil and the deep blue sea.
He is trying desperately to orate his way through with the audacity of asking that international laws be changed so that a couple of nations with their servile and sycophant partners can attack whosoever they desire and whenever they desire! Does Blair believe that the comity of nations and the peoples of the world are so gullible as to swallow his words; hook, line and sinker? It is but a crude attempt for a post facto approval to try to whitewash the blackest event of modern history ushering the twenty first century.
Bush's attitude is: "couldn't care less". For him the dogma "might is right" underlines his core belief. The foundation of his support base comes from the crony conservatives who want the US armament indus-
try to thrive and prosper. What better way than to go to war at the drop of a hat to consume and update the US arsenal? It is a small cost in men's death and materials lost, compared to the vast profits in money and potential prospects of wealth in the defence and oil related industries. Furthermore, the US presidential style of government allows him a greater degree of latitude in his words and deeds. To placate some barking Democrats after his own WMD search fiasco, he has called for an enquiry or two to find out and hang some poor scapegoats; who may even be provided wealth and perpetual material happiness away from the limelight to become the official culprit responsible for all the deception and doomsday scenario painted prior to the Mother of all Wars of Mass
Destruction.
Blair across the seas unfortunately has to face the Mother of all Parliaments! He is desperately trying to bamboozle his way through appealing to sentiments of high moral ground, and "cross my heart" integrity! May be he thinks he can manage to post facto change international law to justify his indulgence in following Bush.
Blix the gentleman; now that all the smoke has cleared and the ignominy of incompetence as harpooned by the Bush and Blair combination gone with the wind; has come out with his words of wisdom and righteousness. He believes that the UN should rightly be the custodian of international action of any sort involving any country. In his magnanimity he
is satisfied with the political punishment of Bush and Blair's misdeeds; rather than go for a multi-billion dollar defamation suit for hurting his capability and competence as a weapon inspector so imperiously declared to be incompetent by the past and present imperialist.
Spare a thought for Iraq. It has lost its oil, its infrastructure, and possibly its future. The victors are trying to cobble together a redefined democracy to suit their own ends; the signing of which came unstuck despite US persuasion, power and pressure. That at least ushers in a ray of hope for Iraq. May be it will at long last become a Wealthy Muslim Democracy the last but fitting words for the WMD acronym.
SA Mansoor, Gulshan