Thursday 28 October 2010

When Tariq Aziz

Sent to the gallows: a Christian, for waging war on the Islamists who now control Iraq.

Sent to the gallows: the only man left who could ever have told the whole story of America's dirty war in Iraq.
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12 comments:

  1. Mustard28 October 2010 at 12:45

    If only he hadn't ordered all those murders, eh? It gave the neocons the excuse they needed. He was just playing into their hands, really.

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  2. David Lindsay28 October 2010 at 13:51

    He has been convicted of nothing except holding the line against the Shi'ite Islamists whom the invasion has installed in power, as any removal of Saddam Hussein was bound to. I hope that you are very proud.

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  3. Green28 October 2010 at 15:09

    And by what means did he hold the line? Letter writing campaigns? Street theatre?

    Christian or no (as if that's relevant) he was one of the inner circle of a regime that practised brutal repression of its populace as a matter of course. Pretending that he's an innocent victim is as wilfully ignorant as it is morallly corrupt. At least admit that he's not oh my god what's the point.

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  4. David Lindsay28 October 2010 at 15:12

    What, indeed?

    I hope that you are very proud of what you have installed in Iraq, and of what it has done and is doing to the women, to the age-old Christian communities, and to that very Arab phenomenon, the Anglophile middle class (you don't get any of that Somewhere Else That I Could Mention).

    But, as you say, what's the point?

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  5. Anonymous28 October 2010 at 15:14

    Green, is that we did in Iraq and are doing in Afghanistan, letter-writing campaigns and street theatre?

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  6. Plum28 October 2010 at 15:17

    What I've installed in Iraq? Would it be worth asking exactly what you think I've done to install anybody anywhere?

    No, no it wouldn't.

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  7. Mar Yohannan VIII Hormizd28 October 2010 at 15:20

    "As if that's relevant"? "As if that's relevant"! My God, you know NOTHING about the Middle East. Are you George Bush? Or a recently arrived immigrant in Israel? Or a long-established immigrant in Israel?

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  8. Scarlett28 October 2010 at 15:28

    Sent to the gallows: a Christian, for waging war on the Islamists who now control Iraq.

    Sent to the gallows: a Muslim, for waging war on the Islamists who now control Iraq.

    Sent to the gallows: an atheist, for waging war on the Islamists who now control Iraq.

    Sent to the gallows: a vegetarian, for waging war on the Islamists who now control Iraq.

    If it's wrong, it's wrong. It doesn't become more wrong because he's a Christian. Right?

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  9. David Lindsay28 October 2010 at 15:35

    His Late Beatitude says it all at 15:20. And, again, I hope that you are very proud of quite what the ignorance of you and yours has, er, "achieved" in Iraq.

    I was going to write "Why do we let you people vote?", but the question is really how we came to the situation in which you are the only people with anyone to vote for, and what we are going to do about it.

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  10. Mar Nicholas I Zaya28 October 2010 at 15:45

    Mr Lindsay is one of extremely few British commentators to have the slightest understanding of Christianity in the Middle East, and his understanding is very far from slight. He is an ally as vital to us as he is to council tenants.

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  11. White28 October 2010 at 15:46

    David, where have I said anything in support of the Iraq or Afghanistan wars?

    It's not a trick question.

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  12. David Lindsay28 October 2010 at 16:04

    Mar Nicholas I Zaya (what an erudite lot we attract on here), you are very kind.

    White, your question answers itself.

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