Scum-watch: The Le Worm that turned and propaganda victories to evil men.
IT is only a few months since America regarded Britain as its greatest ally.France, under sneering Jacques Chirac, was unreliable at best and downright anti-American at worst.
Oh yes, the man the Scum nicknamed Le Worm if I recall correctly. Unlike the Sun and Blair, Le Worm got it right over Iraq, although the Scum could never bring itself to ever admit anything of the sort.
Today, President Nikolas Sarkozy is warmly embraced as a friend — and invited to address the joint US Congress.
By contrast our Prime Minister’s first White House trip was a stiff and formal affair.
Why the difference?
Gordon Brown set out to make clear America can no longer automatically count on the UK as a military ally, as in Iraq.
Rubbish. Brown, if some reports are to be believed, certainly hasn't made clear that Britain wouldn't take part in any action against Iraq. Brown was only making clear that the cozy, rudderless days of meekly following America while having no influence over it were in the past, along with Blair. If the Sun doesn't like a relationship that isn't completely obsequious and which led directly to the disaster Iraq, then tough.
Our Prime Minister would do well to watch and learn . . .
And listen less to the malign chatter of his lightweight new Foreign minister, Mark Malloch Brown.
That would be the whole point of this spurious leader then, another opportunity to take aim at Malloch Brown. Malloch Brown you might remember had the temerity to suggest that the US used the UN for its own ends abroad without defending it at home, and leaving it to the likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to lambast the organisation for daring to exist. Attacking any part of the Murdoch empire instantly makes you person non grata, and subject to random, consistent vilification. The Sun is merely continuing its expected role under the watchful eye of the great proprietor.
Even by its standards, the argument the Scum is making for Sir Ian Blair staying in his job is wafer-thin:
Sacking Sir Ian won’t bring Jean Charles back.
But it would hand a massive propaganda victory to the evil men who seek to justify 7/7 and other civilian atrocities.
Err, how exactly? That the man ultimately responsible for what happened to de Menezes will be sacked for being more successful in killing the dirty kuffars than the 21/7 bombers themselves were? Are they really going to be glad that someone who didn't even know that an innocent man had been killed until the following day, even though his secretary did, is gone? Or will they be more fearful of someone who isn't so obviously incompetent and obstinate being the head of the Met? Even if it would somehow hand a propaganda victory to "evil men", what have they got to do with it? The public weren't endangered on the 22nd by "evil men", they were endangered by police who shot dead an innocent man and were so unhinged they nearly shot another police officer and then the driver of the train. Blair's resignation is the first step towards ensuring that the Met doesn't continue to hold both the public and the truth in such contempt.
Labels: Mark Malloch Brown, Scum-watch, sir ian blair, special relationship, Sun-watch
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