2minute silence..Shh Don't mention the War

[Wookey]

And I thought about those kids with their rucksacks. What the fuck was going through their heads?

Their arses, it would appear.

 

[girasol]

from the Guardian, it's certainly now coming out fighting


Comment
It is an insult to the dead to deny the link with Iraq

Tony Blair put his own people at risk in the service of a foreign power

Seumas Milne
Thursday July 14, 2005
The Guardian

In the grim days since last week's bombing of London, the bulk of Britain's political class and media has distinguished itself by a wilful and dangerous refusal to face up to reality. Just as it was branded unpatriotic in the US after the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington to talk about the link with American policy in the Middle East, so those who have raised the evident connection between the London atrocities and Britain's role in Iraq and Afghanistan have been denounced as traitors.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1528014,00.html

Good article. Nice to read something sensible instead of the usual pointeless speculation about what the terrorists want and what they think, and how they want to destroy our 'freedom' and how they want to divide the country and how we shouldn't let them by carrying on as normal...

I've been shouting something similar (about 'what the terrorists want' statements made by the news)at the tv for the last couple of days, although not so articulately:

The first piece of disinformation long peddled by champions of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan is that al-Qaida and its supporters have no demands that could possibly be met or negotiated over; that they are really motivated by a hatred of western freedoms and way of life; and that their Islamist ideology aims at global domination. The reality was neatly summed up this week in a radio exchange between the BBC's political editor, Andrew Marr, and its security correspondent, Frank Gardner, who was left disabled by an al-Qaida attack in Saudi Arabia last year. Was it the "very diversity, that melting pot aspect of London" that Islamist extremists found so offensive that they wanted to kill innocent civilians in Britain's capital, Marr wondered. "No, it's not that," replied Gardner briskly, who is better acquainted with al-Qaida thinking than most. "What they find offensive are the policies of western governments and specifically the presence of western troops in Muslim lands, notably Iraq and Afghanistan."

 

[treelover]

oh dear, it's starting: the shift from comdemning terrorists to accusations of a 'fifth column' as it were. Some of the media are hinting that one of the bombers had links with an anti-war organisation*, i wonder which one?


*along with hundreds of thousand of others,

 

[gentlegreen]

oh dear, it's starting: the shift from comdemning terrorists to accusations of a 'fifth column' as it were. Some of the media are hinting that one of the bombers had links with an anti-war organisation*, i wonder which one?


*along with hundreds of thousand of others,

my simple brain is starting to hurt in an Orwellian way

 

[WasGeri]

Unlike your fine, morally impeccable self I don't rank the lives of rich white British people above those of poor Africans or all the brown folk getting blown to bits in Iraq every day

If you even think about making such a disgusting allegation in future, you had better watch out or I'll give you a fucking slap.

Prick.