Would you buy a used-car from this man?

Friends, as you would be aware, Tony Blair has moved from his previous position of aiding America in its objective of gaining military control of the world to that of Peacemaker. I use the term Peacemaker very, very loosely.

As you will all recall, Blair, Prime Minister of Britain, got into bed with George W Bush very quickly as events in Afghanistan unfolded. The two of them engaged in foreplay, after-play, between-play, and generally had a jolly good time killing and torturing all and sundry while claiming they were bringing freedom and human rights to the oppressed.

After an initial foray into that country of opium poppies, next off Tony committed his country to help America in its invasion of Iraq because it was said that it had billions of Weapons of Mass Destruction. This turned out to be entirely untrue despite the best efforts at lying of Colin Powell.

The shock and awe that was visited upon Iraq was truly monumental. Each night, our television sets looked like New Years fireworks. No expense was spared by America and Britain to ensure that the destruction and killing was absolute. Having smashed the country to pieces and left it in utter turmoil, then the American-British-Australian alliance returned to Afghanistan to finish the job they’d left in limbo.

Around this time, rumour has it that Blair the warmonger feared he might be brought before the World Court for war crimes.

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And Friends, there’s a wonderful bonus from all this destruction. Our oil-burning cars and trucks create global warming at the same time.

Hurrah!!!

(Photos thanks to Reuters)

Friends, the world’s longest running show has had yet another performance. The two actors involved in this latest one-act play are Obama and Netanyahu and they performed stoically on July 6th.

The play is called: “Screwing The Palestinians” and it has had many, many showings over decades. They principally take place in the White House but sometimes at Camp David.

These showings have had many actors playing the main roles: Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama, Sharon, Netanyahu, Olmert, etc. Some of the actors have possessed flair. Some of them have had the personality of wooden Indians and an intellect to suit.

The plot of the play is simple: behind closed doors, let’s pretend to be engaged in serious discussions about setting up a sovereign Palestinian State while we allow Israel to continue with its brutal occupation and steal more and more Palestinian land and build more and more settlements and Jew-only roads.

Let’s pretend to set up new committees or come up with new edicts or road maps or send new envoys, anything that looks as though we are actually planning to do something then, as soon as the one-act play is over, we can announce them then forget about these strategies until people start asking some pointed questions again. Then it’s time for a new performance.

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Are the Georgians laughing with her or at her?

Friends, Hillary Clinton has taken the first steps towards a new career. Obviously, she is preparing for the time when she will no longer be Secretary of State. Her choice of possibilities has been enhanced by her recent foray into comedy.

According to Reuters, Clinton said at a briefing with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili: “I came to Georgia with a clear message from President Obama and myself: The United States is steadfast in its commitment to Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

She urged Russia to comply with the ceasefire that ended the 2008 war, “including ending the occupation and withdrawing Russian troops from South Ossetia and Abkhazia to their pre-conflict positions.” Surely she must be joking!

Friends, can you believe this? Here is a senior member of  a country which is the world’s greatest warmonger, a country which has turned invasion and occupation of distant nations into an artform,  a country that has its military bases spread all over the world, a country which has supported the war crimes of Israel for decades, lecturing Russia about respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another nation, one which is on its border.

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A candle-lit dinner, anyone?

Friends, while looking for information about the Mexican drug cartels crisis, I was blown away by this statement: Americans, who comprise five percent of the world’s population, consume two thirds of the world’s illegal drugs!

Are you shocked? I was! This startling information came from Joseph Califaro, chairman of  CASA, (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse) which is located at Columbia University. If you want to get more information and statistics try:  http://www.casacolumbia.org/

This fact helps to explain why the Mexicans are so heavily involved in lucrative drug trafficking and why the drug cartels are so powerful they are threatening the very Government of Mexico. Of course, America gets drugs from all over the world. They come back via its troops as well as other smuggling means like small planes, ships, etc.

One irony of the situation is that the Mexican drug cartels, who kill people by the thousands in wars between cartels, are well armed and who provides them with guns? America of course. So a flood of guns flows into Mexico while a flood of cocaine and other drugs flows into America. The end result of this is that the nation of Mexico is in turmoil with politicians being shot while the Mexican Army engages in gun battles with various cartels.

But there is another worrying aspect of this situation. If drug use is so prevalent in America, what effect is it having on the thinking processes of American citizens?

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Well, friends, General P. has arrived in Afghanistan. The first thing he did was to walk on water.

He brings with him a surge which will swell the number of U.S. troops to 150 thousand. He also brings with him $30 billion dollars of taxpayer’s money to fund the surge which was approved by Congress even though America is struggling to turn its economy around while dealing with high unemployment and declining house prices.

It is hard to believe that America still thinks it can turn Afghanistan into a small mirror of itself. I mean, after the failure of Vietnam and Iraq, surely the message must or should be getting through by now that occupying and killing people is not the way to gain their friendship and subservience.

Even if it doesn’t accept the lessons of its own history, all it has to do is to look at Israel where, for 60 years, the Jews have been trying to tame and manipulate the Palestinians using occupation and brute force without success (of course, America, ever generous where war is concerned, sends billions of dollars to Israel annually as well as unlimited arms – that it does so is reprehensible).

And if America doesn’t want to look at Vietnam, Iraq or Israel, then it could look at the Russians who attempted to tame Afghanistan and, after more than a decade, left with their tails between their legs.

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“Guess who’s running America!”

Well, General McChrystal has been given the axe and there is a new General in Afghanistan.

McChrystal, and his aides, in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, made some unflattering but probably true comments about certain Obama Administration officials and the general lost his head, literally.

Now, you have to admit that General Petraeus, who has a very Roman-sounding name, looks resplendent in his uniform. Each adornment surely means a lot and undoubtedly shows that he has been responsible for killing lots and lots of people. Hurrah!

In Ancient Rome, successful Generals were treated very well by the Emperors and were mightily feted when they came back from conquering yet another country. Those who were unsuccessful often fell on their swords which may have contributed to the saying that: Those who live by the sword, die by the sword. McChrystal has not fallen on his ceremonial sword yet but he has retired.

Now, by contrast, this morning’s news revealed that the Taliban had attacked a major American airbase in Afghanistan with a truck bomb and small arms which  might lead a curious person to wonder about just how successful the war in Afghanistan really is.

Of course, according to the Obama Administration and the kingdom within the kingdom (called the Pentagon – another Roman word?) everything is going according to plan although one could be forgiven for asking: which plan? They’ve been so many plans during the last decade that they must need a whole building to store them all!

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