Tuesday, November 18, 2003
The Guardian have been maintaining a fairly good left-wing front recently, they don't seem to have had David Aaronovitch letting the side down much with his "hey, war's great! And ID Cards! Let's have a war with ID Cards!" schtick lately. Zoe Williams has a good column on the imminent anti-Bush demos in London.
So, when in February the nation witnessed one of the largest anti-war demos in British history, Tony Blair took the opportunity to praise them for their "democracy". In Iraq, such a thing would have been impossible, because they have no democracy. Oh, the fox! Do you see what he did? He took the peaceniks' impassioned objections, and turned them to his advantage. Except he didn't, really, since the endpoint of his argument was that we were attacking a country in order to bestow upon them the right to march in their hundreds of thousands, and then not be taken any notice of.
So, when in February the nation witnessed one of the largest anti-war demos in British history, Tony Blair took the opportunity to praise them for their "democracy". In Iraq, such a thing would have been impossible, because they have no democracy. Oh, the fox! Do you see what he did? He took the peaceniks' impassioned objections, and turned them to his advantage. Except he didn't, really, since the endpoint of his argument was that we were attacking a country in order to bestow upon them the right to march in their hundreds of thousands, and then not be taken any notice of.
