Blair And The Laser-Guided Bombs

Original posting, August 2006

President G.W. Bush and Tony (I'd-like-to-be-a-president-too) Blair yesterday (28.07.06) agreed to back a new UN resolution sending a multinational force to Lebanon, as criticism grew of their failure to call for an immediate cease fire in the region.

Bush apologised for America's use of Glasgow's Prestwick Airport to ferry laser-guided bombs to Israel without following proper procedures.

"The President said sorry there was a problem. It was a gracious thing to do," Blair's official spokesman said.

Except he's just saying what he has been told to say. These precision laser-guided 5 tonne bombs are apparently a back order from a year ago (pretty quick off the mark there).

Makes me wonder whether the Americans stopped off at Prestwick to pick up the late order. British built? Not just a refuelling stop. And, of course, using Blair's homeland of Scotland to do it.

Hardly neutral ground.

Blair is about to go on his hols (03.08.06). Stop the war chaps. For a couple of weeks at least.

Trust that reading about the British (and American) soldiers who will die over that two week period will spoil his holiday (it won’t, of course). And all of the innocent Lebanese children who will die as a result of his 'dealings' with the Devil and his mates.

Some people actually like “Tony”, I understand.