April 2003
Blair bashing? How inappropriate! Watching the man slowly but surely self-destruct day after day makes me wonder how the Hull Stop the War Campaign could have devised such an exercise.
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The war in Iraq is not over, all the information available points to another reality, where the actual war has just started and which will drag on for years to come, claiming more and more lives, until the colonialists troops are expelled. This war has not only begun, but it is becoming Bush's and Blair's Vietnam. The reaction of a young American soldier firing indiscriminately his weapon around after a car bomb exploded next to a military convoy in Baghdad (16 July 2003), killing one soldier and injuring several others, resembles the panic and low moral of the American troops in Vietnam, the kind of collective hysteria that acted as a breeding ground for uncountable atrocities in that war, not forgetting My Lai.
"Stuck in here" carved with a pen knife on a desk of an officer of the 3rd Armoured Division in Baghdad (BBC Radio 4’s Today programme) is indicative of the low moral, exasperation and panic of the military. How long will be until a massive attack on an American base similar to the one that devastated the marines in Beirut during the 1980s happens?
Both the American and British governments have stated that troops will stay in Iraq for as long as it takes (for what?); the reluctance, especially from the Bush administration, of accepting a role for the UN in post-war Iraq points clearly at the Washington-London axis of neo-colonialism. If a role for the UN is eventually found I have no doubt that it will so watered down and subservient to the Bush and Blair administrations that effectively the organisation will become an extension of American imperialism, to be used to confer legitimacy to this occupation.
The new governing council appointed by American and British officials, which can be overruled and dismissed at any moment by Paul Bremer, the American chief administrator, from his air-conditioned offices, is no more than a carbon copy of the innumerable puppet governments set up, and disposed of at will, in Saigon by the Americans at the time of their occupation of Vietnam. This new body will suffer the same ignominious destiny of those regimes. History's dustbin is wide.
Blair bashing in that cold Saturday of April? Kids had lots of fun, Charlie got wet to the bone, and I finally uploaded that promised snapshot of a bunch of smiling schoolgirls several weeks late. My apologies, girls!
Hull: 16 July 2003
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