London blasts 'were inevitable'
2005-07-18 09:33
Today I would have loved to have responded to News24 users after
some of them took me apart for comments I made in last week's column.
I had stated in the column that I wished to contribute to the uMsholozi trust fund for former deputy president Jacob Zuma.
One seemingly sensible reader from Namaqualand made a very interesting case, but then added
that I "support a crook".
The man clearly has joined those who have already found uMsholozi
guilty even before he has been to court.
What would have been wrong if Hilary Squires had recused himself from the Schabir Shaik trial,
given the huge mountain of baggage he drags about from his days in the illegitimate regime of Ian
Smith?
Surely, given the circumstances, he had a duty to do so?
Anyway, let me share some thoughts on the horrible events in London almost two weeks ago which, to my
mind, were not really unexpected and are an inevitable consequence of George Bush's "war on
terror" which, I must say, kills and maims innocents indiscriminately in the so-called hunt for
"terrorists" and their allies.
Let us not forget that this "war" is fought most savagely.
British prime minister Tony Blair called the unprecedented London attacks on commuter trains and a passenger bus "barbaric" and
other uncomplimentary and unsavoury epithets.
That is because his collusion with Bush in the massacre of innocents when scatter bombs and guided missiles rain death and havoc on Iraqi and
Afghan towns and villages results in what is casually termed
"collateral damage".
The 'war on terror'
The boot is now firmly on the other foot and there can be no prevaricating for Blair, Bush and
their allies.
It must all be understood in the context of the "war on terror" that civilian massacres,
shocking as they no doubt are, must happen to protagonists on both sides of this battle.
Of course I am not untouched by the death and destruction to Londoners, and the loss of life to
more than 50 innocents.
I am very sad about ALL "collateral damage", whether to the so-called
and self-defined "terrorists" or to the "civilised" crowd.
I am desperately sorry for all the thousands of those black-robed widows and mothers in
Afghanistan and Iraq, whose husbands and sons were killed in the fierce rain of bombs and
missiles that fell on them, and which were fired from ships anchored offshore in Pakistan, Turkey
and other Bush-friendly countries.
I am very sorry for the many children who were killed and maimed in the murderous attacks by
the "civilised" west, their only sin being that they were born in the "wrong" places and were
necessarily of a "wrong" colour and a hated and "wrong" religion.
And yes, I am sorry for those poor Londoners for suffering the consequences of the stupidity of
their obdurate leaders Blair and Jack Straw, who lied and continue to lie knowingly about the
reasons they attacked Iraq in the first place - there never were any so-called weapons of mass
destruction, and both Straw and Blair know this as much as Bush does.
At any rate, what are we to make of the "intelligence" given to them about the mythical
weapons of mass destruction, and yet the same "intelligence" was dangerously non-existent to
uncover the plots leading to the events of 9/11 and now London?
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