"Freedom will find a way" (George Bush, September 2004)
10,000 detainees held without trial in US-run prisons in Iraq

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the latest total for the number of tidal wave fatalities is 44,000
and it continues to rise - a world tragedy
it's now approaching half the number of deaths which have
resulted from the US invasion of Iraq - an American triumph

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xmas present of the season -
US helps itself to a greater share of Iraq's oil reserves

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in the UK, while Tony Blair has been in power,
the rich have got richer and the poor have got poorer
- no wonder his main supporters are Murdoch and Bush

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Home Office now admits lying in cover-up to save David Blunkett's job - so he could bring in biometric ID cards to cut down on crime and corruption?

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Tony Blair said David Blunkett left office with his integrity intact
- since when has Tony Blair been an authority on integrity?

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Beckhams as Tussauds models for Joseph and Mary?
hard to see them as parents of a gay black hippy jew

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more than half the children in the world suffer extreme deprivation
because of war, H.I.V./AIDS or poverty - UNICEF

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having the Beckhams as Joseph and Mary is ok (cos they're the country's leading couple) - but surely George Bush would be better suited as Herod rather than as one of the 3 wise men?

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UK hospital waiting lists down
the time it takes to get on waiting lists up?

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the question for David Blunket is,
'would ID cards help prevent shenanigans by cabinet ministers?'

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civilians burnt alive in napalm attacks by US troops in Falluja
a 1980 UN convention banned the use of napalm against civilians
America refused to ratify the treaty and is the only country using it

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Falluja - Iraq's Allamo

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Saddam Hussein's former special forces now the main allies of the US troops
weren't these the very people that Bush and Blair said they went in to remove?

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the leaders of those opposing the banning of fox hunting with packs of hounds in the UK are the descendents of those who opposed universal suffrage and the abolition of slavery

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how come American and British troops invaded Iraq in the name of 'democracy', when back in the UK, unelected aristocrats can override the decisions of elected MPs?

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"[The Roman Legions] create a desolation and call it peace."
- Calgacus (attrib), circa AD100

the destruction of Fallujah will be remembered
with anger and sorrow for a thousand years

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there's no point in having the biggest army in the world
if you're not going to use it

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the US claims to have captured Fallujah, Iraq's 16th largest city
the Iraqis claim to have recaptured Mosul, Iraq's 3rd largest city

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hundreds killed in Fallujah as US attempts to separate hearts and minds

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there is something exceptionally cruel and heartless about America
i expect it's 'cause they've got God on their side

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US marines gearing up to kill a few thousand more Moslems in Fallujah - forget the Age of Aquarious... this is the Age of the New Barbarians

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if the majority of Iraqis want US troops to leave,
why are they still there?

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the winning side is not necessarily the right side

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if al-Qaida are opposed to 'freedom',
how come they haven't threatened Sweden?

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the international community is coping with a paranoid America
armed with vast numbers of weapons of mass destruction
led by a power-crazed fundamentalist oil tycoon
who believes he's on a mission to save the world

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we are facing the problem of a power crazed America,
led by a fundamentalist oil tycoon,
in control of more weapons of mass destruction
that the rest of the world put together

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100,000 civilians, mainly women and children, killed in Iraq by US-led troops

according to Bush and Blair (who claim God is on their side),
it's for their own good

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if you have to take sides, support the side with the largest number of slaughtered children
more than 300 women and children were killed by US Soldiers during the assault on Falluja in April
kill one innocent person and it's called murder - kill 300 and it's called a successful operation

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thank you John Peel (1939-2004)

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i keep hearing people on the radio telling me about "the word of God"
it's a good job he speaks English, otherwise i wouldn't understand a word he says

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Fallujah - a 21st century Guernica

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it's no problem finding billions to fight wars thousands of miles away
but now we're told to work 'till we're 70 cos there's no money for pensions

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Tony Blair claims the war with Iraq was justified because of the (imaginary) threat to the UK. So if Iraq had invaded England, bombed its cities, killed 20,000 people, and installed a puppet government, then would that have been ok, because of the (real) threat to Iraq by the UK? And if the English had fought back, helped by the Welsh and the Scots, would they be 'anti-English insurgents' and 'foreign terrorists'?

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Kerry and Bush both claim international terrorism is the biggest danger facing America
- more dangerous than the 470,000 deaths a year caused by alcohol and tobacco?

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George Bush told Saddam Hussein that the US would invade Iraq
if he didn't hand over his weapons of mass destruction -
Saddam Hussein said he hadn't got any weapons of mass destruction -
George Bush accused him of lying, and ordered his troops to invade Iraq -
20,000 Iraqis were killed, half of them civilians, many of them women and children -
now it turns out that Saddam Hussein was telling the truth -
seems to me like Iraq is owed an apology -
but George Bush doesn't do apologies - he just carries on dropping bombs

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so George Bush and Tony Blair started a war, killing 20,000 Iraqis,
because Iraq might have been thinking of breaking a UN sanction?

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Tony Blair was a successful lawyer.
He has been trained to evaluate evidence
and draw accurate conclusions from it.
How could he possibly not have lied?

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Tony Blair prepares an exit strategy - for himself

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when will Tony Blair withdraw British troops from Iraq?
when George Bush tells him to

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Google - the best censored news online

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why all the fuss about abolishing hunting with packs of dogs?
is England's future threatened by a rise in the fox population?

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better that Stonehenge had never been built rather than
one leg of a millipede be injured in its construction

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now if only we had an English Nationalist Party led by
someone of the calibre of Dafydd Wigley or Alex Salmond

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Bush and Blair aren't losing the war in Iraq
they've already lost it

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looks like another win for the Bush-Nader ticket

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Annan declares Iraq war illegal
2,000,000 people marched in London saying the same thing,
but oil is oil...

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Iraqi civilians killed so far during the military intervention -
13,000 (approx)

this is what Tony Blair calls "winning the peace"

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A decade of bombings and sanctions against Iraq
followed by invasion and occupation are terrorist actions
which have killed thousands of innocent people.
If George Bush is right in his belief
that terrorism can be defeated by force,
shouldn't we be supporting the Iraqi freedom fighters?

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my local cinema complex is showing
16 US films + 1 Japanese + 1 from New Zealand --
and they all look like mindless crap
apart the last, "Whale Rider" --
so much for British independence from the US
which liar Blair keeps bleating on about

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foreign troops occupying Iraq
are now more hated than was Sadam Hussein
- what an achievement for Bush and Blair!

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"Some commanders believe preventive operations...
is not limited to Americans."
- Ali Shamkhani (Iranian Minister of Defense)
what's sauce for the goose...

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isn't it time the United Nations stepped in to halt US air strikes on Iraqi cities?

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"As a Christian... I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice"
George Bush? Tony Blair? no, Adolf Hitler (1922)

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"heavy US bombing of Kut kills 75 and wounds nearly 150
many of them women and children"
it's Vietnam all over again...
except Wilson had the sense to keep the UK out of it

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"Iraqi police threaten to shoot reporters
as US troops prepare to attack Najaf"
the American killing machine grinds on remorselessly...

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in the 1930s idealists went to Spain to fight against the Fascists
now they go to Iraq to fight against the Americans

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GI wanted to shoot an Iraqi

kill-hungry US soldier sentenced to 3 years
for the unprovoked murder of an Iraqi civilian

(that's how much value the dementors place on a Moslem life)

an innocent handcuffed cowherder is shot in the back of the head by a dumb yank bully with a gun so he can go home boasting about how brave he is - another glorious step forward in Operation Freedom by the new barbarians

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the US War On Terrorism makes about as much sense to me
as the Spanish Inquisition

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"Much of Iraq has fallen outside the control
of America's puppet government in Baghdad"
- Robert Fisk

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"British troops took turns abusing a group of Iraqi detainees...
...kickboxing them against a wall"

"The Human Rights Act doesn't apply to soldiers serving in Iraq"
- British spokesman

why not? don't the Iraqis have human rights?

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"Forbid the day... when the man of science...
shall exult in the thought that
he has made of this fair earth,
if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals"
- Lewis Carroll, speaking on vivisection (1832-1898)

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leaders who divide people into good and evil
are frightened enough to start wars

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FBI arrests animal rights protestors as "terrorists" over reporting SHAC actions
the War on Terrorism is now being used to protect corporate interests
 
SHAC - Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
 
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when George Bush talks about success in Iraq, what he means is
more Iraqis are killed by Americans than Americans killed by Iraqis

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US bribing 50 countries to undermine the International Criminal Court
all nations are equal, but some nations are more equal than others

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Blair lied but daren't admit it to us or to himself
2M told him the truth - Golum-like he clings to power
 
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Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Mazar-i-Sharif -
these are the real world Azkabans
 
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US & UK Intelligence? US & UK Stupidity
 
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Blair has been forced to admit he was wrong about Iraq's weapons capacity
but he still hasn't apologised for misleading the country
and he hasn't said sorry for his role in the deaths of thousands of Iraqis
 
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Blair on Iraq -
if at first you don't succeed in fooling the public,
lie, lie and lie again

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"Afghanistan... is descending into a downward spiral of lawlessness and instability" - Amnesty International - 17th June 2004
another US success?

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Bush & Blair & co lied about invading Iraq
they killed thousands of innocent people
we are governed by liars and murderers

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the Bush administration's contribution to the world economy?
a rise in the price of oil, and a fall in the price of heroin

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if SETI discovers extraterrestrial intelligence,
who will be allowed to communicate with them?

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football? it's just people running about trying to kick a substitute pig's bladder between a couple of wooden posts - only marginally more comprehensible than watching grown men throw bits of dead cow at three twigs stuck in the ground

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US to increase foreign aid?
measured by % of GDP, it is the lowest provider of all the industrialised countries
the amount donated is approx 3% of the amount spent on its military expenditure

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when i was young i never believed what i was told
i argued with all my relatives and all my teachers
half the time i was wrong

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if ice was a strategic resource,
the US would be 'liberating' Antarctica

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(i've been helping look after a neighbour's two (male) dogs for the last week)
if dogs held an olympic games,
the only event would be synchronised spraying

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a vote for Labour is a vote for Blair
a vote for Blair is a vote for Bush
a vote for Bush is a vote for paranoia, greed and chauvinism

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US definition of an evil country?
one that keeps out Bechtel, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Monsanto & Walmart

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Tony Blair's been quiet the last couple of days
- perhaps he's working on his exit strategy?

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US & UK presenting their plan for Iraq to the UN?
why can't Iraq present its own plan to the UN?

impunity for US & UK troops in Iraq?
there's no impunity for innocent Iraqis killed & tortured in Abu Ghraib

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Bush&co have created the first hero of the millenium -
Osama Bin Laden

(and all it took was the slaughter of 20,000 moslems)

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for most people in the world, the biggest threat to world peace is the United States

in fact most people probably think it is the only threat to world peace

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Israel and the US both think of themselves as the chosen people
- didn't Nazi Germany think the same?

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"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities."
(Voltaire)

"...the Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons."
(George Bush)

"[US] techniques of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention, amounting to war crimes."
(Amnesty International)

"What would you do if I occupied your country, tortured people and violated all the laws of your country? Would you resist?"
(Saddam Saleh Aboud, tortured and beaten within Abu Ghraib)

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i was always a rebellious lad
if i were a French Sikh, i'd insist on wearing a turban at school
(and refuse to wear one at home)

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Believe me, I am your leader
I have George Bush on my side
He has God on his side (so do I)
George Bush has lots of WMDs
(more than everyone else put together)
So we have to do what he says
He knows what's best for you
Believe us, we are your leaders

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the United States of America maintains more than 700 foreign military bases

this is part of a strategey to dominate the world economically, politically, & militarily - therefore it attempts to undermine international courts and human rights conventions - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz state this explicitly

the Christian fundamentalist right, which has been dominating US foreign policy, claim to have God on its side and sees itself as taking part in a holy and historic mission - those countries which resist American expansionism are called "evil" and are treated as such

Bush or Kerry? the only thing they disagree about is which corporations should reap the profits of war

American "freedom"?
2M US citizens are in jail, the highest incarceration rate in the world

US "democracy"?
is it a coincidence the father of the current president was also president?

Rumsfeld now claims the torturing of prisoners does not contravene the Geneva Conventions

welcome to the New World Order

"we don't do body counts"

welcome to the era of the new barbarians

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Blair wants the "guilty" to be punished -
what about the war criminal at 10 Downing Street?

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politicians cling to power like limpets -
so who's going to take responsibility for prising Blair away from No 10?

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putting John Scarlett in charge of MI6
is like putting Ronnie Biggs in charge of the Royal Mail

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the chief weapon of the Apache helicopter is the Hellfire missile -
no wonder the USA is known throughout the world as The Great Satan

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Blair no longer an asset to Labour?
Blair no longer an asset, period!

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the US solution to the world's problems? bigger bombs

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the photos of US & UK troops abusing Iraqis are bad enough
- but what about all the things that weren't photographed?

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America is the problem, not the solution

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"Love your enemy" (Jesus of Nazareth)
"Kill your enemy" (George W Bush)
"Please Mr President, can I lick your arse?" (Tony Blair)

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if Iraq invaded the US then Americans would fight to expel them,
so why the surprise that Iraqis are resisting the US invasion of Iraq?

i remember Suez
since then i've heard a lot of politicians talk a lot of rubbish
but never so much and so often
as Tony Blair justifying the invasion of Iraq

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"Ralph Nader calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq"
if Nader hadn't stood in the 2000 election, US troops wouln't be in Iraq

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Bush and Blair see international politics in terms of good and evil people
others see it as solving problems between people holding different ideas

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a "free" Iraq is an Iraq that is free of US troops

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American success in uniting Sunnis and Shiites

i hope the US doesn't decide to "liberate" my country

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Iraq supports the Palestinians
Israel tells the US that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction
US invades Iraq and takes control of the oil
Israel wipes out Palestinian leaders
US can't find any weapons of mass destruction
Israel says that's because there weren't any

UK gets dragged along because Blair can't see what's happening
his head's stuck up Bush's arse

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Saddam Hussein is said not to be telling his interrogators very much -
"Mr Hussein, where have you hidden your weapons of mass destruction?"
"For the millionth time, I haven't got any weapons of mass destruction."

why do some members of the UN Security Council
have the power of veto, and not others?

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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's justification for UK troops invading Iraq
is that no one has given him a good answer
as to what would have happened if they hadn't

the world would be a safer place if he was in Broadmoor
(a prison for the criminally insane)

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there should be a day set aside every year
when everyone admits they're wrong

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anti-terrorist legislation = locking people up without a fair trial

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with US forces embedded in Iraq, it seems Israel can act with impunity

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Blair quotes the Iraqis as being happy he invaded their country?
maybe he should remember it's UK voters he's got to answer to

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we are fighting for basic freedoms and human rights for all
which is why we have to lock people up without a fair trial

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the world would be better off if Bush waged a "War Against Spam"
- tho on reflection, given his 'successes' in other wars, maybe not

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if the deaths of 192 civilians killed in the Madrid bombings were "an unspeakable evil" (Tony Blair), how should the deaths of 100,000 civilians killed in the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki be described?

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i've read that americans are afraid of being abducted by aliens
- everyone else is worried about being abducted by americans

"war on terrorism"? why haven't we started peace talks?
because fighting wars makes Bush & Blair feel important

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Tony Blair asks people not to attack his integrity -
how do you attack something which doesn't exist?

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if only Bush would stop his insane "war against terrorism"
& accept that the US way of life affects climate change
not much chance of that tho - he's paid by the oil lobby

Tony Blair is a greater danger to UK democracy
then ten thousand Osama bin Ladens

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the US Democratic primaries? every 4 years US citizens get the
chance to vote on whether the President should change his name

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British MPs describe Clare Short's accusations as outrageous -
yes, an ex-cabinet minister telling the truth! whatever next?

UK accused of spying on United Nations secretary-general?
i wonder how many other secrets Blair is hiding away from us

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US to imprison detainees whether they're found innocent or guilty?
now there's no such thing as "human rights", only "American rights"

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if it's wrong to clone humans, why is it ok to clone animals and plants?
is it because there's already far too many humans on the planet?

lies, damn lies, and Labour's election manifesto

world heroin trade flourishes following US liberation of Afghanistan

in a just world, if a chicken died after catching a virus from a human,
a million people would be stuffed into plastic sacks and left to suffocate

planet earth is currently experiencing a plague of humans
reducing their numbers by 99.9% should solve the problem

when people talk of war criminals
i think of George Bush and Tony Blair

when politicians talk of liberation and freedom
i think of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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