Monday, August 31, 2009
It's no fun when the oil comes easily
Cartoon courtesy of The Independent, who had no problem reading the Iraq massacre correctly from the very start.
Here is Melanie Phillips' favourite pro-war stateside rag, The American Thinker, condemning this Labour administration, no Britain as a whole, for the fact that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi's delivery to Libya was carried out for cynical, oil-related reasons.
Here are the two leading hate-filled rags that she writes for declaring that the Labour government were engaging in a spot of Middle East realpolitik, first The Daily Mail, next The Spectator.
On to the Murdoch press. Here we have spunk-encrusted comic The Sun tearing into New Labour for oil-related immorality, as well as Faux News and the New York Post falling into line. And here is Pentagon blowhole The Wall Street Journal telling us how the British government can't hide the truth over its oily lies in the Middle East in this internet era.
Hell, let's jump back two years before this new internet era, back to 2007, and read a story from Conrad Black's now defunct New York Sun telling us that Anthony Blair might be preparing to betray families of Lockerbie victims and mail Megrahi back to Libya in exchange for the black stuff.
So that's the Melanie Phillips right, the Murdoch press and the ghost of Conrad Black's malevolent shit-blanket all taking a break from pressganging us into 'supporting the troops' to tell us that New Labour is quite prepared to lie to the public and misbehave in Arab lands to get at their oil. What's astounding is not just that they claim that oil was the motivating factor, but that it is blatantly obvious. Gee thanks guys, well over a million dead Iraqis could have benefitted from your laser sharp analysis. Maybe you can all shut up for a bit now.
Cartoon courtesy of The Independent, who had no problem reading the Iraq massacre correctly from the very start.
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