Koolaid
10-21-2004, 12:59 PM
With allies like these, who needs enemies?
So, Britain would be "failing in its duty" to an ally if we didn't agree to send troops into US-controlled sectors south of Baghdad, would it? Would it really? Hmm?
And what about the duty of a government to the members of its armed forces?
This is quite apart from any objections I might have against the illegal invasion of Iraq - what about the duty a government has to the members of its armed forces not to send them into needless danger purely to support a foreign (lest we forget, Bush and his a**hole pals are all foreigners) government?
People - British people - could very well die as a result of this decision. Well, fair enough, you might say, soldiers do die, arguably that's what they're paid for; but if (and it's a big "if") they have to die at all then isn't failing in our duty a p**s-poor reason why?
Surely Blair would be failing even more dramatically in his duty to the people who pay his wages, who put him in power, who rely on him as prime minister not to f*&k up - surely he would be failing even more in his duty if he were to deliberately put British soldiers in Iraq in even greater danger of death purely as a favour to a frankly unreliable "ally"?
Getting British soldiers killed for no other reason than a foreign power demands it? Never mind the petty, stupid panics about EU tyranny - the EU has never asked "as a favour" that we send a bunch of "our boys" out to join in an illegal, bloody and rapidly-escalating-out-of-control conflict.
I'd like to say, screw 'em. The Bush government and its supporters were so desperate to get into this war, so eager to start shooting and killing, so utterly regardless of the consequences, so greedy to get their hands on that lovely oil, and so arrogant in their dismissal of the more thoughtful members of the international community, that if it hadn't become such an all-round horror-show out there now that what I'd really want to say to them would be simply: "Not so clever now, are we?" Or even: "Told you so."
But such playground triumphalism would ignore the tragic and ever-growing pile of bodies that seem to be Iraq's main export at the moment.
from http://www.stuandmel.plus.com/
So, Britain would be "failing in its duty" to an ally if we didn't agree to send troops into US-controlled sectors south of Baghdad, would it? Would it really? Hmm?
And what about the duty of a government to the members of its armed forces?
This is quite apart from any objections I might have against the illegal invasion of Iraq - what about the duty a government has to the members of its armed forces not to send them into needless danger purely to support a foreign (lest we forget, Bush and his a**hole pals are all foreigners) government?
People - British people - could very well die as a result of this decision. Well, fair enough, you might say, soldiers do die, arguably that's what they're paid for; but if (and it's a big "if") they have to die at all then isn't failing in our duty a p**s-poor reason why?
Surely Blair would be failing even more dramatically in his duty to the people who pay his wages, who put him in power, who rely on him as prime minister not to f*&k up - surely he would be failing even more in his duty if he were to deliberately put British soldiers in Iraq in even greater danger of death purely as a favour to a frankly unreliable "ally"?
Getting British soldiers killed for no other reason than a foreign power demands it? Never mind the petty, stupid panics about EU tyranny - the EU has never asked "as a favour" that we send a bunch of "our boys" out to join in an illegal, bloody and rapidly-escalating-out-of-control conflict.
I'd like to say, screw 'em. The Bush government and its supporters were so desperate to get into this war, so eager to start shooting and killing, so utterly regardless of the consequences, so greedy to get their hands on that lovely oil, and so arrogant in their dismissal of the more thoughtful members of the international community, that if it hadn't become such an all-round horror-show out there now that what I'd really want to say to them would be simply: "Not so clever now, are we?" Or even: "Told you so."
But such playground triumphalism would ignore the tragic and ever-growing pile of bodies that seem to be Iraq's main export at the moment.
from http://www.stuandmel.plus.com/