despoliators & co
What happens when a brilliant mind, driven mad by the inconsistency between its principles and its owner's actions, is forced for lack of solid ground to weave and then walk on a brittle thatch of words?
...if the idea became implanted in the minds of people in the Arab and Muslim world that democracy was as much their right as our right, where do these terrorists go, what do they do, how do they recruit? How do they say America is the evil Satan? How do they say the purpose of the West is to despoil your lands, wreck your religion, take your wealth -- how can they say that? They can't say that. So these people who are fighting us there know what is at stake. The question is, do we?
So let's say, for argument's sake, that the West goes ahead and despoils their lands, wrecks their religion, and takes their wealth. That's when they can say it, right?
In case you missed it -- and if you live in the U.S. and read only U.S. media, you probably did -- it appears now that Blair and Bush agreed in January 2003 to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein whether or not there was a second UN resolution and whether or not UN inspectors found evidence of WMDs, thus setting in motion the aforementioned despoliation, wreckage and taking.
The meeting, according to a memo exposed by Professor Phillipe Sands, QC, in a new edition of Lawless World, took place several weeks before Blair told the House of Commons that Saddam had "one further, final chance to disarm voluntarily."
Professor Sands, we citizen-viewers would like to see a copy of that memo for ourselves, if you get a chance.
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