Theo,
You know full well that’s not was mentioned, no country in the world should have weapons of mass destruction. No country should have missiles capable of slaying millions of people. You mention these insane countries; a hell of a lot people would add the US into that category especially after the unjustified dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War Two. However we won’t go into and I don’t particularly want to listen to you trying to justify that atrocious and sickening act.
No he’s not stealing the taxpayer’s money, but he lied to British people with nonsense of not raising taxes, he in a decade has raised taxes a total of 72 times, he is also wasting money which is needed to help improve the lives of British people, which funnily enough what New Labour was elected on, their manifesto was all about sorting out society. Education, Education, Education was Blair’s slogan, well education is no better than it was, the health service is in melt down, social services are in a state and country is in a worse state than what it was a decade ago. Yet he has found time to a fight a pointless war, in which the US has killed more British soldiers through friendly fire than the militants themselves. So that £20billion could be saved and spent on sorting out social justice and domestic problems facing and crippling the country.
Blair is no where near as close to socialism as you have made out, New Labour by definition cannot be considered a socialist party, they can be considered a social democratic party, because they have a balance and they accept capitalism, but also except that their needs to be a minimum living standard, so they juggle individualism and social justice together, not what I would call socialism. Socialism in Britain was about industry, clause four, trade unions, which have pretty much died out, mainstream socialism died with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. So no Blair cannot be called a socialist, he is very similar to Thatcher, only difference is, social justice wasn’t on her agenda. Bush I don’t know too much about, but I doubt he is anything like a socialist. He might support industry, but the US is predominately a capitalist country. I enjoy living in a prosperous country, but I do not enjoy seeing people struggle to live, I do not enjoy seeing people being oppressed, that’s the difference.
Iraq invaded Kuwait which went against UN resolution, now correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the US make a habit of doing that? Didn’t Bush essentially put his middle finger up at the UN and go in and invade Iraq? Seems highly hypocritical doesn’t it? How the US uses the UN when it suits them and tells it to get lost when it suits them, it smacks hypocrisy; it’s so hypocritical it makes me smile. The US “do what we say, not as we do”. Brilliant, made my day that has, but then I knew this already. The US, Britain and Germany should of known how many weapons Iraq had because we bloody well sold him the shells and the materials to make these bloody weapons and it is actually well known that Saddam had destroyed his weapons of destruction in the mid 1990’s. US and British intelligence were ignorant to these facts and in attempt to seize oil used any excuse to invade Iraq, its funny how many people fall for Government based propaganda. History is riddled with citizens blindly following and believing whatever their Governments say.
He didn’t play games, he just refused to cooperate with the US and British forces so what? What right has the US got to ask questions of any countries Governments? What business was it of the US to ask Saddam to show what weapons he had? When Saddam was an ally, the US didn’t care that he was committing acts of genocide against the Kurds and other groups of people who opposed him, the US and Britain swept it under the carpet and ignored it, but conveniently remembered it when Saddam fell out of favour with the US. The US had enough, that just shows that the US are nothing more than playground bullies who doesn’t it like when a country doesn’t play your game. It’s funny how the US feel threatened constantly by countries and then bomb them back to the dark ages and claim to rid the world of evil when essentially all the US is doing is being deeply paranoid and ridding any country which could challenge the US as a global super power.
I don’t agree with these militants who go about stirring hatred towards the West, but I don’t agree with the West going into the countries and ramming our beliefs and values down their throats and when they want to do things their own way the West, sorry Britain and the US bomb them to the ground. Then Blair and Bush sit there and wonder why car bombs are a common site in Baghdad and other cities throughout Iraq. I don’t agree with extremists, but I don’t agree with the US and British foreign policy.
The US didn’t help Japan, instead the US slaughtered Japan and it was Japanese people who shaped Japan into the country it is today, not the US. If the US had their way, Japan wouldn’t exist today and that’s common knowledge. The US preserved their soldiers, but what about innocent Japanese people? Innocent people always die in warfare and this could have been prevented, but most countries drop bombs, cause carnage and ask questions later. Win the cold war? Please you didn’t win the cold war, for starters it wasn’t even a war, secondly the Soviet Union was crumbling from the inside like empires of the past, the US just sped things up with their propaganda, after the US gave black Americans their civil rights, lets not forget that crucial peace of information. It was the people of the communist countries who essentially ridded their nations of communism, not the US. All the US did was invest in more defence through fear of attack, but credit where credit’s due, Reagan and Thatcher did well with the political side of things.
I don’t know much about the Korean war and what went on, so I cannot comment, but I didn’t need to guess that the US would be involved, perhaps the US did well and helped South Korea, I will always give the US credit where it’s due, but whilst I like the US, I do not like the foreign policy. You sit there and spout the very things which simply aren't true, you sit there spout the very saying which hatred of the US comes from. Saddam was not doubt evil, Kim Jong is considered evil, but a lot of people see Bush and Blair as evil too.
