Thank all and any Gods for Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk comes up with some wonderful stuff here
But sometimes I find him a very lonely voice of sanity in a mad world of media made bubbles.

"We have not counted on the Churchillian vision of Lord Blair.

"I have never come across a situation of (sic) the president of a country

stating they want to wipe out another country," he told us on Thursday. Oh

deary me. What can we do with this man? For Rome was rather keen, was it

not, to wipe out Carthage (delenda est Carthago, Tony)? And then there is

the little matter of Herr Hitler - a regular bogeyman for Lord Blair when he

stares across the desert wastes towards the Tigris - who insisted that

Poland

should be wiped out, who turned Czechoslovakia into the Nazi protectorate

of Bohemia and Moravia, who allowed the Croatian Ustashe to try to destroy

Serbia, who ended his days by admitting that his own German state should be

wiped out because its people didn't deserve him.

But now let's listen to Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara again. "If they (the

Iranians) carry on like this, the question that people are going to be

asking is: when are you going to do something about this? Can you imagine a

state like that with an attitude like that having a nuclear weapon?" Well

yes, of course we can. North Korea. Whoops! But they've already got nuclear

weapons, haven't they?

So we'll ask a different question. Exactly who are those "people", Lord

Blair, who might expect you to "do something"? Could they have anything in

common with the million people who told you not to invade Iraq? And if not,

could we have some addresses, identities, some idea of their number? A

million perhaps? I doubt it."