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"nick" <wibble@kdfjlsdfjklsdj.com> wrote in message
news:0001HW.BA9D0ABD00FB51FFF060B600@news.btinternet.com...
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:46:38 +0000, Netizen wrote
> (in message <1fs0qsl.1s8zcyzy19bjaN%anon@somewhere.org>):
> > Q1: (after much preaching by Blair about the evils of proliferation of
> > Weapons of Mass Destruction) "Should the Prime Minister not name the
> > countries who have supplied Iraq with these weapons?"
>
> It's a bit of an open secret that the reason the Americans "know" that
Saddam
> had undeclared 'illegal' weapons is that they/we kept the receipts.
>
> It's also just one more irony in this whole Big Lie scenario that the US
not
> only possesses more weapons of mass destruction (both 'legal' and utterly
> illegal in international law) than the rest of the world put together, but
> has been increasingly unashamed of making clear their willingness (nay,
> enthusiasm) to use them, in a context of increasingly overt scorn for any
> principle other than naked self-interest.
>
> It's unfashionable to use the word 'fascism' because it's so widely
misused.
> But can anyone tell me what's NOT appropriate about using the term to
> describe a regime that rigs elections (and is now busily engaged on fixing
> the apparatus of future elections to ensure they stay in power); which
scorns
> international law and universal principles of human rights; which has
taken
> full control of their own state media that then delivers to its population
a
> diet of outrageously unbalanced and uncritical propaganda in its own
favour;
> and which ruthlessly attacks other nation states on flimsy excuses to take
> control of their resources?
>