Home

Bush And 7/7 - An Exercise In Class

Posted February 16th, 2008 by Tom
in

Curious how these things work.  In the week the Leader of the Free World threatens us (implicitly) with more 7/7s if we don't follow the lead of the Japanese Empire, the Spanish Inquisition and the Republican Party and sign up to torture, we learn that our Saudi friends were in the habit of threatening the British Prime Minister with 'another 7/7' if we continued with the SFO fraud investigation, leading to the withdrawal of Saudi intelligence co-operation (something jamie is of the opinion would be more a problem for them than us, particularly given that our homegrown bad boys are more likely to come from Rotherham than Riyadh).  As far as I know, the mere victims of 7/7 haven't been asked what they think about being used as an excuse for advocating torture and protecting the corrupt, but Rachel has let us know anyway:

 

It's quite hard to write this without wanting to put my head through the computer monitor but, (and breathe, Rachel, breathe), I have two choices here. I can ignore the unpleasant fact that my country is supporting a President who has okayed a method of torture associated with some of the cruellest, most abusive, murderous regimes in history, or I can continue to write and speak out about it.

 

I divine that she's not happy.

Prince Bandar, who amazingly turned up for a private meeting with Tony Blair in London shortly before the SFO dropped the case, is known as 'Bandar Bush' for his close personal friendship with the Decider.  The rest of the story is as inevitable as it is outrageous, but keep an eye on the court case - the judges include Mr. Justice Sullivan, more commonly found acting as Judge Dredd opposite the perpetual perps at the Home Office.