<America tore out 8000 pages of Iraq dossier
[Any ideas as to why this should be necessary?]>
I suppose so they could claim that the dossier was incomplete and that would be prima facie [which is fancy latin for "near enough"] evidence that Iraq was dissembling, obstructing and by crikey, that's a casus belli [which is poncy latin or something for "I really don't like you and any excuse is a good excuse to show you what we big, tough guys can do with our AC-130s"].
Since the world remains a dog eat dog world and Saddam works on the same principle, I don't find anything wrong with the USA deciding to usurp Saddam and co. But reputations are hard won, easily lost and once a liar with an Office of Disinformation it's tough to look all pious again. Virginity is lost once, rarely regained. Turning over a new leaf is okay for leopards with spots, but politicians have a tough time turning leaves.
The USA is a much better dog to have standing over everyone than any of the alternatives currently on offer. I might even prefer the USA to my current Stalinist leader, Helen Clark of Helengrad. But on reflection, I prefer the current arrangement where I hire the USA to produce CDMA and use USS Enterprise and AC-130s to keep the Moslem Head-Hackers at bay [not to mention Jiang Zemin and any others who might get it into their heads to be ruler of the world]. Unfortunately, the USA, unlike the British Empire, doesn't adopt the subjugated as regular citizens - we remain aliens and Guantanamo Bay candidates if we look a bit dodgy. None of that habeas corpus nonsense [more smart alecky latin, which means "Hey, you can't just put people in gaol without a casus belli or prima facie"]. I know you know that latin stuff Zonder, I'm translating for regular sheeple.
Until We the Sheeple do something to establish the UN as a meaningful manager of the global commons, we might as well have the USA stomping around the place and not whine too much about it. I'd rather have King George II as ruler [which is ironic given the foaming at the mouth which goes on in the USA about the evil British Empire from which they fought for Independence on 4 July, not to mention freedom, human rights and all that stuff which wicked China ignores, unlike the great and wonderful USA].
I've got my cabin. Call me Uncle Tom. I'm practising forelock tugging.
Mqurice
[Imagine having BlandButMindless and Hawkmoon as rulers of the world - even with the moderating influence of the dominatrix ultimus Cobalt Blue to ensure habeas corpses. And THEY are the civilized ones. Well, maybe not BBM. But Hawk seems usually reasonable though I'd have to question his judgement getting in tow with a religious wacko who thought some spousal corpses not a bad idea as religious prophecy]
By the way, your post 888 was a lucky grub in the Asian numerology stakes - especially with the Year of the Sheeple about to start [in Chinese New Year], which the rest of us can deem to be 2003. Maybe it really will be the Year of the Sheople. I wish! |
