[A-List] Fw: blair as a lavatory attendant

["Christopher Black" <bar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Subject:
>          blair as a lavatory attendant
>    Date:
>          Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:12:51 +0100
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>          "canauk" <canauk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>          "Press Association" <copy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Press Association"
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> Assuming Iraq is now 'liberated' the nature of the US -UK 'liberation'
> needs
> examination.
>
> Perhaps it will be similar to the 'liberation' of Afghanistan.
>
> Despite the thousands of reporters who were in Afghanistan during the
> war &
> subsequently, what has gone on there both then & now has not been fully
> reported.
>
> The disgusting  conditions in the camps, where the so called 'unlawful
> combatants'
> were & are held, i.e. those who have not been tortured to death, or sent
> to Guantanamo
> Bay, is a widely unreported phenomenon.
>
> An EU envoy described a camp he visited  as "Auschwitz".
>
> Most of the prisoners, the hundreds of men he saw there a year or so
> ago, are now
> dead, one assumes.
>
> Another insight was provided by Major Ivor Telfer.
>
> He was interviewed on a BBC radio 2 programme called Songs of Praise on
> March 9th
> 2003 by Roger Royle.
>
> Ivor Telfer is a Salvation Army officer who was sent  to Pakistan to run
> a refugee camp
> in 1988 & who was subsequently asked by the Salvation Army to go over
> the border to
> do similar work in Afghanistan.
>
> This man has a lot of knowledge & experience of Afghanistan.
>
> Asked how conditions are there now he said there were lots of problems.
>
> He said Kabul wasn't damaged too much during the Soviet era but
> following that,
> "....when the Afghans were fighting each other & then the Taliban
> regime came in , &
> then September 11th & the allied bombing after that ...two thirds of the
> city is destroyed
> ... there is hardly any electricity, not much water, and sanitation is
> really  quite bad.
> There are 6000,000 Afghans living in bombed out accommodation. "
>
> The Afghans are coming back to villages which are "totally destroyed"
> and the fields
> are mined.
>
> According to Telfer there's between 5 & 30 million unexploded ordnance
> in the country
> & as the fields are mined naturally the Afghans can't farm.
>
> Because of Rupert Murdoch, you can't expect any impartial coverage from
> Sky News,
> still less from  the BBC, its massive budget, extorted out of the
> public, while the UK
> Foreign Office finances the BBC World Service.
>
> So we are back to the old days, when we relied  on travellers tales. It
> was amazing
> Telfer got broadcast.
>
> What the reality is about Iraq none of us know, & none of us will ever
> find out if it is left
> to the BBC.
>
> My dislike of the BBC for its distorted reporting goes back to the First
> Gulf War when
> the BBC routinely said that Saddam Hussein's incoming scud missiles were
> being
> intercepted.
>
>  (I was living in Riyadh at the time.)
>
> I knew this was not true. This was a play on words. They were
> intercepted, but not
> neutralised.
>
> The patriot being a proximity weapon.
>
> It simply meant if intercepted by a patriot the scud war head dropped.
> The scud might
> be deflected from  its intended target, but that was all.
>
> The UK media have really covered themselves with glory in this war.
>
> How frequently have we seen anyone on television, or heard anyone on the
> radio,
> questioning nor merely the morality, but the common-sense of this war?
>
> Comment is at the GMTV level.
>
> Britain as a nation has lost its moral sense, & we lack any intelligent
> appreciation of
> world affairs.
>
> I don't think we British understand how others see us.
>
> A Macedonian friend of mine (another country targeted by us) said to me
> once: "They,
> (by which she meant the British people, or at least our leadership)
> don't realise just
> how evil they are."
>
> The British  are the experts in terms of walking into other people's
> countries,
> reorganising them, & leaving  them worse than before.
>
> The Americans are the experts in mass genocide (of a native population)
> + a mass
> holocaust of imported slaves.
>
> But I thought Britain & America had got over that phase.  Evidently not.
>
> The lives of those British soldiers killed in action or by friendly fire
> in The Gulf were all
> wasted.
>
> By that I mean their deaths could have been avoided.
>
> They were pawns  in a political game run by Mr Blair,  expendable.
>
> They fought for neither Crown nor country, never went in my name & never
> had the
> backing of the British people.
>
> Those that they fought (the Iraqi people) they did not hate.
>
> And those they ostensibly fought for, (according to Blair, also the
> Iraqi people), "no
> likely end could bring them loss/or leave them happier than before.../
> The years to come
> seemed waste of breath/a waste of breath the years behind/ in balance
> with this life,
> this death."
>
> Parliament by voting for war with Iraq became a criminal institution &
> the taint of its
> blod guilt will never be removed.
>
> Every time I go into St Stephen's Entrance it will look a different
> place.
>
> I respect some MPs, i.e. those who have stood up against the trend.
>
> But the generality of MPs work according to different rules from the
> rest of us & those
> who voted this war, including my own MP, I hold them in contempt &
> believe that God
> will judge them on the Last Day.
>
> I am not impressed by Blair's claim to be concerned about human rights.
>
> I lived in Zimbabwe, under Mr Mugabe in the early 80's, when thousand of
> Zimbabweans
> were being killed,  the Foreign Office turning a blind eye then as it
> does now.
>
> I lived in Saudi Arabia - when they stoned women to death using dump
> trucks, crucified
> people & left their bodies to rot on lamp posts, beheaded routinely on
> Friday afternoon,
> & torture, with techniques taught by the Vinell Corporation - was
> routine.
>
> I knew the anguish & despair at the Malaz Prison.
>
> From Britain's point of view, the primary guilt, for the  blood of all
> those who have died
> in this war & who are doomed to die before this terrible episode
> concludes, must be
> upon Mr Blair, who has put Britain into more aggressive wars since May
> 1st 1997 than
> any other leader in British history.
>
> No wonder Alan Watkins described him as a war criminal in The
> Independent last
> Sunday (April 6th)
>
> Not one of the wars he has engaged in has been for the defence of this
> country, or for
> our vital interests.
>
> The argument Mr Bush advanced that  war was on Iraq was justified
> because of
> September 11th was a lie.
>
> Nothing good has come out of this war & nothing ever will.
>
> Messers Blair & Bush will declare an end to it, declare victory.
>
> It won't be the end of course.
>
> Anarchy will be left behind, probably with an ongoing low level
> guerrilla
> struggle, against an occupation.
>
> The purposes of the war were made clear this morning  following an
> unreported
> incident,  with 7 Palestinians  killed in Gaza last night, including one
> of the leaders of
> Hamas.
>
> There is now a US-Israeli hegemony over the Middle East.
>
> The Palestinians' main champion  (however flawed, & however bad a
> dictator he was)
> is effectively eliminated.
>
> The role of the British & the UN in these new arrangements are unclear.
>
> Blair's role, which he wants to hand on  to Kofi Annan, is as Mr Bush's
> lavatory
> attendant.
>
>
> William Spring  London April 10th
>
> ends
>
> These reflections by the Director of CANA Christians Against Nato
> Aggression UK 1
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