Electronz - Issue 316 28 April 2003 Weekly International Ezine focusing on the New Economics ===================================================== In This Issue : [ 2 ] Blair Riding Shotgun For Bush. ===================================================== [ 2 ] Blair Riding Shotgun For Bush. Columnist and Scottish MP, George Galloway is furious at U.K. PM Blair’s behaviour over Iraq and launched this broadside at him via “The Spectator”. Though very hard hitting, we see nothing in it that we could disagree with. Might the reason that Blair is irrationally enthusiastic about Bush’s Iraqi invasion be related to what knowledge of Blair’s connections in the Pornographic World is held by the FBI and CIA? We believe there is a report circulating which if made public would produce a rash of red faces around Whitehall. Excerpts from Galloway’s story follow. “Elvis Costello called it the 'New World Odour', adding that it smelt even more malodorous than the old one. That was back when another George Bush proclaimed it, after another war with Iraq. Few had the heart to point out that most tyrants proclaim a new world order; Adolf Hitler himself did so amid the roars of men in uniforms at Nuremberg, in the middle thirties. The New World Order is being spread on a sea of bribery, bullying and bugging. In the shadows is John Negroponte, George Bush's ambassador to the UN and the former 'point man', in Honduras, for Ronald Reagan's murderous Contra campaign in Nicaragua in the 1980s. The work of his henchmen in Central America - which involved the murders of bishops, priests and nuns, and the cutting of the throats of volunteers bringing inoculations and literacy to remote villages for the first time in Nicaragua's history which earned the US a guilty verdict on a state-terrorism charge before the World Court in The Hague. In response, the US derecognised the jurisdiction and began its long march beyond the reach of virtually all international regulation. And there are others from the Iran-Contra scandal, that grisly imbroglio of drugs, guns and mad mullahs that almost got 'the Gipper' impeached: Elliot Abrams, Bud MacFarlane - egged on by our old friend Oliver North, the shredder of evidence for peace and his fellow egg-head Paul Wolfowitz. And the biggest egg, Humpty Dumpty himself, Henry Kissinger who drowned South-east Asia in chemical weapons in the 1970s, got himself back together again, casting an avuncular eye on the walls along the Potomac. The New World Order, in other words, is not new at all, but this may be its most infamous hour. Bush's White House is the Nixon-Reagan one all over again - without the former's evil genius and the latter's good nature. This truly is Nightmare on Elm Street and they know what you'll be doing next summer. Picking up the pieces, hosing down the fires, mopping up the blood. What most irks my pro-war parliamentary colleagues is the question I regularly put to them: how has it come about that a Labour government, is shuttling around in limousines, from capital to capital, in the service of a foreign power - acting, as the Wall Street Journal had it, 'as America's newest and brightest ambassador'? As we know, an ambassador is someone sent abroad to lie for his country. It really has come to something when the Prime Minister of Great Britain is sent abroad to lie for someone else's country. He is roving ambassador to the right-wing of a born-again, Bible-belting fundamentalist crew which first turned Texas into the toxic execution chamber of the Western world, and has now, via a four-three vote in the Supreme Court and a lot of pregnant chads, given birth to a government which is a by-word for treaty-busting protocol, scuppering, agreement-wrecking and international thuggery. All attempts by the world to rid itself of such plagues as landmines, proliferating small arms, pollution, chemical and biological weapons (I'm not making that last one up: the US has blocked new regulations on the basis that it would require them to allow UN inspectors to see their inventories) have been wrecked by the government now represented on the global stage by Tony Blair. History will indeed judge Mr Blair for his decisively important appeasement of this scurvy crew; and not kindly. But we won't have to wait, In the age of satellite TV the whole world will be watching every burning building, every smouldering corpse, incinerated in the name of God, morality and human rights by the least convincing televangelists since the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart went down for fraud. And when the crusader army patrols every street in Iraq, they should know they will be as welcome as a pork chop at a Muslim wedding. Or, to put it another way, as welcome as General Sharon's army in the alleyways of Gaza. They told gullible journalists on Blairs behalf that this will be a 'six-day war'. The allusion was to the apparent triumph of the Israelis over the Arab armies in six days in 1967. They appear stunningly oblivious to the fact that, the day that war ended, the 35-year war between Israel and the Palestinians began - and rages still, on the highways to Haifa, in the gangrenous slums of Gaza, in the rancid refugee camps of Ramallah. The new imperialism will, I believe, collapse amid boycott, radicalisation, anti-capitalism and flames, which will burn most fiercely, though not exclusively, in the Muslim world. From Indonesia to Nigeria, Algiers to Baghdad, chaos and bloodshed. Danger will be the new order and our own tall buildings will not be spared, so do not hoist the British flag thinking your national self-image is the Beatles, the BBC and Bobby Charlton. You are seen as the tail of a stupid, huge and vicious dog. Our Comment: Is it any wonder that Blair’s own Labour Party split and baulked when asked to back his support for President Bush’s invasion without U.N. support? Instead of backing down, Blair leaned on the Tory Party to get enough votes to continue!! ===================================================== Thank you for your ongoing support. As always, your feedback is welcome and appreciated. For all past issues.. the archive link is : www.electronz.idz.net Copyright © Electronz, 2003 =====================================================