Some posters above are in pain because of my earlier statement:
It was the similarity between post 7/7 and post 9/11 government propaganda that first raised my suspicions about 9/11.
I hope my following words help to relieve their needless suffering! Sorry for making you wait...
When the JREF gang is aroused to a feeding frenzy by the intoxicating scent of twoofer blood I’ve learned that it’s sometimes best to stand back to let the mud settle and to allow the self-referential mutual stroking to reach its solipsistic climax (cue Slayhamlet).
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Breathe.
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Bush and Blair’s warmongering, post-atrocity speeches were given at very different historical moments.
Bush gave his to a reeling, shocked, traumatised nation after a supposedly unexpected, out-of-the-blue attack . Blair gave his to a cynical nation many of whose people regarded him as a lying war criminal and US poodle with the blood of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands dripping from his smarmy hands.
Anyone familiar with the consequences of US foreign policy could also feel the sick hypocrisy of Bush’s war speech but Blair’s hypocrisy, because of the context, was starker. Both leaders run the usual war propaganda program of reducing their intended victims to the level of irrational barbarians while painting themselves as saintly beacons of civilised values.
Bush paves the way for US imperial expansion into any country that the US conveniently decides is harbouring terrorists and introduces the deranged concept of a “war on terror”.
“We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them”
Blair downplays the predicted consequences of his own massive, unprovoked violence by luridly talking up the latest “evil ideology” to threaten the ”civilised” West:
“This ideology and the violence that is inherent in it did not start a few years ago in response to a particular policy.”
Both leaders hurriedly announce the culprits before any proper investigation has established their guilt. The world still waits for the promised conclusive evidence in both cases.
The huge disjunct between Blair’s words and the reality of his murderous, deceitful, criminal actions raised my suspicions that the 7/7 and 911 narratives could also contain similarly shameless, warmongering lies.