Is it a mouse, is it a plane? No, it’s that bloody Blair again…
It would seem that London has just escaped what Baghdad has to suffer through almost every day.
The Blair government, as always in cinq with its Whitehouse Big Brother, has always denied that the Bush/Blair adventurism in the Middle East has made the world - including England - a decidedly less safer place.
This from the White House site; Bush speaking in 2006,
Our coalition will seize this moment, as well. I look forward for continued in-depth discussions with Tony Blair, so we can develop the best approach in helping the new Iraqi government achieve its objectives. The new government of Iraq will have the full support of our two countries and our coalition, and we will work to engage other nations around the world to ensure that constitutional democracy in Iraq succeeds and the terrorists are defeated.
Well, maybe not - and now it appears that the first Al Qaeda car bombs have made it to England. Yet, with exquisite timing, the man responsible for this mess has flown the coup. He’s resigned as prime minister and has left his successor to deal with whatever future mayhem will follow. Something he may even see as a just revenge on his hated rival, Gordon the Usurper.
Yes, Blair has gone - via Rome - towards new adventures. He’s become a peace envoy, no less. So, it seems that God - or Satan - is a humorist after all. Or, as the Guardian’s Marina Hyde wrote,
Clearly, George Bush so loved the idea of Middle East peace that he sent his only lapdog to have a crack at it, despite the fact that messiahs have a history of running aground in the region. But then, the US president does have form with jobs-for-the-boys appointments that seem so preposterous that they must be presumed to be satirical.
Quite.
Well, no-one has ever said it is easy to admit mistakes. So, Bush and Blair can almost be forgiven for not wanting to admit that they screwed up big time in Iraq. It’s less obvious why both of them would want to make things worse by sending Tony ‘the Torch’ Blair to what has proven to be, time after time - with the possible exception of the Balkans - the most inflammable place on earth.
Maybe the two of them should watch more educational TV -Â like the Hamas children’s programme. Remember that Hamas Mouse? Well, when the world learnt of the existence of the mouse, public opinion leapt upon a kitchen chair and started to screech its collective head off. AÂ much bewildered Hamas took note of this slightly hysterical reaction,
So… it’s okay if we fire missiles and kidnap soldiers and blow up a school bus now and then - but when a fake mouse waves a toy rifle on a bloody kids’ show we’re like Evil Incarnate…?!
Still, Hamas understood that they had enough PR problems as things stood, without being pointed at in the streets because of some damn rodent, so they decided to learn from their mistakes and drop Hamas Mickey.
Mind you, they did not exactly go about it in a graceful manner,
A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children’s television program was beaten to death in the show’s final episode Friday. In the final skit, “Farfour” was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. At one point, the mouse called the Israeli a “terrorist.”
“Farfour was martyred while defending his land,” said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed “by the killers of children,” she added.
Still, Hamas saw the Mouse had been a bit of a PR disaster, so they got rid of it.
And isn’t the world in a sad state, when the psychotic leaders of terrorist organizations like  Hamas prove to be more adaptable and quicker on the mark when it comes to copping to a mistake than Bush and Blair will ever be?
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