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Dec. 14, 2006 Since the population of the United Kingdom is around sixty million, if 17% still approve of Tony Blair, it means that there are ten million balmy Englishmen and Englishwomen running around footloose and fancy free in Albion. Surely no one in his right mind could possibly take George W. Bush’s favorite yes-man seriously, after all the whoppers he’s served up and stuffed down our throats during the last four years. First of all, there was the dodgy dossier. This was the ‘fine’ piece of British intelligence that Colin Powell praised so fulsomely before the UN in February of 2003. Within weeks, it had been revealed that part of the dossier had been plagiarized from a college thesis written by an American student and found online, and that its allegations of Iraq’s attempts to buy African yellowcake were based on forgeries. This was the dossier that said Hussein could put WMD in the air on 45 minutes’ notice. Laughably, Tony Blair claimed that he hadn’t used the forgeries, but had based his pronouncements on other evidence, evidence that till this day he has not disclosed. Subsequently, he appointed two of his minions, first Hutton and then Butler, to review his doings, and both gave him high marks, just as O. J. Simpson’s attorneys gave O. J. high marks. Another amusing sequel was that Blair tried to pretend later that he didn't realize that the 45-minute claim was about WMD; he said he thought it was about conventional weapons. “Oh, pardon me!” must have been what he said. Then, when BBC’s Andrew Gilligan wrote an article saying that the dodgy dossier had been deliberately ‘sexed up’ (made more dramatic and terrifying) at Downing Street's behest, he was pressured into resigning, and his source, Dr. David Kelly, ended up dead in the woods. The ostensible reason for Kelly’s death was suicide; he took coproxamol and slashed his wrists. Never mind that the dose was less than lethal, and that it’s virtually impossible to commit suicide by slashing your wrists. Downing Street says it was suicide, so suicide it is. Then there was the episode when Blair said that “massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories” in Iraq had been reported by the Iraq Survey Group. Coalition Provisional Authority chief, Paul Bremer called this statement a “red herring”, not knowing that Blair was the one who had made it. Bremer later tried to unsay what he had already said inadvertently, but was nonetheless true. Then when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke out, Blair tried to distance himself from it by claiming that Englishmen don’t do such things, but on another website I was looking at pictures of English soldiers shooting for fun at Iraqis, as they were in mid-air, jumping from a bridge on the soldiers’ orders. Is there any reason that Blair’s approval rating should be even 17%. Hasn’t England caused enough trouble in the Middle East over the last couple of centuries? England had no grievance with Iraq and was in no danger on Iraq’s count. Blair merely wanted to fawn on George W. Bush. That’s why 83% of Englishmen call him “Bush’s poodle”. William Shakespeare’s immortal lines are as relevant today as when they were penned: “This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out — I die pronouncing it — Like to a tenement or pelting farm.” ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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