It’s Iraq Week, look busy
It’s Iraq week everybody! Columnists, bloggers and pundits: look no further for this week’s muse. It’s a part work obviously, gotta catch ‘em all.
Those of us who were against the war will have our say, those who were for it will have theirs. At the end of the week nothing will have changed, hundred of thousands will still be dead and those responsible will still be at large. Still, I’m sure Britain’s wordsmiths will find some kind of catharsis, so maybe a little good will come of it all until next year.
Anyway, at this early stage, I’m tempted to say that nobody will better this from Flying Rodent:
Because that’s the deal… It’s not about us, dipshits. Britain is long beyond the point where anything we say or do can ameliorate the situation, and frankly, if our reaction to the Iraq invasion clusterfuck is to bleat about how it has shit in our ideological chili, maybe it’s time we ordered a tall drink of shut-the-fuck-up.
Have a good week. Don’t forget the March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm on Wednesday. Just try to be a little more practical and original than ‘I told you so’.
Posted on March 17th, 2008 at 8:02 am
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Count me and my little LEGO minifigs in!
As for me, I plan to watch that excellent documentary on the War on Terror, Starship Troopers.
NB: Satire.
Excellent. I might do the same. Maybe double-bill it with Robin Asquith in ‘Confessions of a Water-boarder’. The IMDB entry says it’s a ’saucy romp where bawdy antics ensue in a CIA black site’.
It’d probably have Tony Blair’s father-in-law in it too.
Justin: This former US officer clearly does see parallels between Iraq and Starship Troopers.
PS: ‘Iraq-nids’, anyone?
I watched it last night - it still works for me.