Letters to the Editor
MereMortal
Published Letters: 150 Editor's Choice: 19
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The cretinous buddy of Margaret Thatcher
[Read the article: How Bush betrays Reagan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Andrew Faulds (Warley, East)
As the Prime Minister—[Hon. Members: "Oh, no."] You'll listen! [Interruption.] As the Prime Minister is renowned for her limited understanding on a range of issues, particularly foreign affairs, and as she apparently prevented the Foreign Office yesterday from issuing a statement on this matter, will she try to appreciate and get her cretinous buddy, the American President, to appreciate—[Hon. Members: "Reading."]—and try to get the American President to appreciate that such attacks—[An Hon. Member: "Exit Right."]
Mr. Speaker: Order.
Mr. Faulds: You might not like it, but you are going to hear it—[Interruption.]
Mr. Speaker: Order. I ask the House to give the hon. Member a fair chance or we shall be here all afternoon.
Mr. Faulds: Will the right hon. Lady get her cretinous friend the American President——
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Mr. Speaker: Order. The hon. Member well knows that such phrases are not used in relation to other Heads of State.
Mr. Faulds: Will the Prime Minister tell the American President that attacks such as those that he and she have launched on Libya will only alienate our Arab friends, give an enormous impetus to Islamic fundamentalism, to which there must have been millions of converts today, and enormously damage our interests and our embassies throughout the world?
The Prime Minister: The hon. Gentleman refers to understanding. Perhaps he would cast the beam out of his own eye first.
Mr. Faulds: What a feeble response. You have not got a case, you cretin.
Mr. Speaker: Order. This is an important statement on which every Back Bencher wants an opportunity to speak. I ask the hon. Member to contain himself.
Hon. Members Withdraw.
Mr. Speaker: Order. Fortunately, perhaps, I did not hear the hon. Member for Warley, East (Mr. Faulds).
Hon. Members
We did.
Mr. Speaker: I did not. If the hon. Member has cast a slur on any right hon. or hon. Member, I know him well enough to realise that he will withdraw.
Mr. Faulds: I cast no slur on the honour of any right hon. Member. I simply described the intellectual ability, quite correctly.
Mr. Speaker: Order. If the hon. Member did that in an unparliamentary way, he should withdraw.
Mr. Faulds: I am sorry to prolong this matter because this is an important issue. The word I used has been allowed in the House. I have used it before.
Mr. Speaker: Nevertheless, and even though I did not hear it—I think other hon. Members did—I ask the hon. Member to withdraw it.
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http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106362
I wonder what the forthright Mr Faulds (died May 2000) who ironically used to be an actor too, would have made of George W Bush, actually I don't wonder at all. The Ronnie and Maggie love-in blighted my teenage years, the Tony and George show, my mid-30s. I suppose they all pass in the end, and I say amen to that. The irony of Bush's visit to Iraq which will show that everything is rosy and improving [when it really manifestly isn't] is that he will get his extension and the military's and Iraq's agony will be prolongued. If the US voters or politicians fall for this sham, then they are even more delusional than I thought. Now is the time to say, we don't care about your media manipulations skills we voted in '06 to get out and we will not relent. This is a hinge point in history.
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Salon, too little too late
[Read the article: Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]we have [most of us] seen Powell in Feb 2001 saying that Saddam had been largely neutralized.. [he is not able to project conventional power..]
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7KudQoNR4J8
but it would be very easy to argue that even had Saddam had WMD, there was no justification for a pre-emptive war against him in international law.
It's nearly six years since 9/11, there are lists and lists of people on the internet who doubt some or all of the aspects of the official story and this is the best scoop that Salon can do?
http://patriotsquestion911.com/
if you are of the highly skeptical orthodox bent watch only this: Richard Gauge architect saying that only demolition will explain the loss of the 3 (yes 3) buildings that crumbled into dust on the day of 9/11 in the WTC complex, he has a very carefully planned 2 hr presentation, and he's visibly upset at what he feels he is forced to conclude.
http://www.911blogger.com/node/10025
we need an expose of 9/11 on Salon, I know they're afraid of being tarred with the brush of 'conspiracy nuts', but what's the alternative? that they keep silent about the biggest crime of the century to what end? protect Bush and co, that's not even logical for patriots who might have initially voted for Bush, but for his natural opponents it's worse than obscene.
9/11 is the alpha and omega of all the 'evil' these fascists have foisted on your country and on the world.
Salon, start a highly responsible well funded investigation into the events of 9/11, the WMD lies is child's play in comparison, it's a sideshow.
it's nearly the 6th anniversary, you should start to do something before Cheney and co do another false flag or start their 1200 target blitz on Iran.