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Hooray! The War is over and everyone wins.

Not quite.

Despite American promises of "Liberation, not invasion", Uncle Sam is proposing to set up 4 US military bases to "keep an eye on things". It's got feck all to do with the pressure Saudi Arabia has been applying pressure on the mighty green machine to fuck off elsewhere. Nothing either to do with oil, which seems to be flowing freely now. But wait, we're all too harsh on those who police the world. They have a nice side to them, they want to lift sanctions. The sanctions they have kept in place for 12 years. lift the sanctions, sell them drugs and foods and generators and water sanitation plants and pay for it with.......

Oil!

For almost 13 years, Iraq has been unable to clear up the mess made by all sides during the last Gulf War. It's been unable, because the UK and USA won't let them have the equipment they need to wash away the depleted uranium and plutonium, the mines and the unexploded bombs. Let's not forget the damaged infrastructure, the equipment and medicine to cure the ill and heal the wounded or the ambulances needed to ferry people about. That's right, ambulances. Banned. Why? Because they contain equipment and utensils which could be used to manufacture weapons of mass destruction. Honest. Talking of which (WMDs, not my honesty), the 2004 edition of the Guinness Book of Records will have a new entry "the longest game of hide and seek". Iraq will have the world record. The game will go on until the press have found something else to worry the public about. In the meantime, the uranium from the last conflict is continuing to kill thousands of innocent people. I bet you thought this government wanted the troops out of Basra because they've done their job? W R O N G . The place is poisoned. 40% of the population will suffer from cancer. Hodgkins disease is rife, but it's curable in 95% of cases, but only if you have the required drugs, which the Iraqis don't because they are banned. In this country, our soldiers have all the symptoms of radiation sickness, but the Government denies that there is a problem and won't treat them.

As the sanctions took hold, those that could be arsed about the plight of a Middle East country were told in 2001 that half a million children had died in Iraq. The famous reply by then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was we think the price is worth it. Of course you do. You don't care about the children in your own country, why bother about some dirty Arabs who don't even go to Church or watch football? This is from a country that puts a guy called Looney in charge of bombing Iraq.

But hey, we're all trying to knock the humanitarian effort the US of A is doing for folks in the Middle East. If it wasn't for their efforts, these poor kids wouldn't even get their faces on the internet.

The big question is "who is next?" Syria and France (yeah, right) have been told off for their stance during the war. But we all know the Yanks like to bomb stuff, even their mates. From June 1998 to January 2000, USAF flew 36,000 sorties over the no fly zone , 2/3's of which were "combat missions". In 1999 alone, almost 2000 bombs were dropped on 450 targets. We did our bit of bombing as well that year, which only cost £800 million.

I leave you with the words of Mark Twain



posted by kwacky at 8:16 pm