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Has the wonderful Condoleeza Rice done any research on Jack Straw’s background? I doubted it, as I watched Straw’s embarrassing, squirm inducing, patronising behaviour as he led Ms Rice around Blackburn. You just know that this spineless lefty, student agitator and serial hypocrite would be joining the ranks of the protestors against the Iraq war if he wasn’t in the government. It is a measure of the thin bank of talent available that Straw is Foreign Secretary, although of course he does look like a talented world-class statesman compared with John Prescott. It was Jack Straw, with one eye on his Saddam-loving Blackburn constituents, who was quick to blame the Danes for daring to use cartoons to bring militant Islamic intimidation to our notice.

We were all reminded of the real Jack Straw a couple of weeks ago when BBCTV broadcast its dramatisation of “Pinochet”, when pusillanimous Home Secretary Straw was happy to go along with a Spanish communist magistrate’s outrageous attempt to extradite General Pinochet, who had been a great friend of Britain during the Falklands campaign, and who was responsible for facing down the attempt by Commissar Salvador Allende to turn Chile into a Soviet gulag like Cuba.

Straw should have told the Spanish where to get off, but his cowardice led to Pinochet being disgracefully held against his will for more than a year. I’m sure that Pinochet and his colleagues had to use some unpleasant methods to rid themselves of the curse of a socialist dictatorship, but the proof of the pudding has been in the eating. Since jettisoning Allende and his ilk, Chile has boomed and freedom has blossomed.

The likes of Allende and his Marxist maniacs don’t sling their hooks by being asked nicely. They clearly would only go at the point of a gun. I think a good analogy is Germany in the 1930s. Imagine an uprising of Germans in the mid 1930s by those who could see that Hitler’s socialist dictatorship was heading for a humanitarian disaster by both invasion and holocaust. If they wanted to remove the Hitler regime, they could either ask them nicely to go and end up dead, or fight vigorously and viciously to remove the Nazis. No doubt many deaths would have resulted, many of whom would have been innocents. But surely it would have been worth it. Only foolish pacifists like Norman Kember, another Saddam-lover recently rescued by British troops in Iraq, would disagree. If we’d listen to conchis like Kember we’d be speaking German today. Similarly in Chile, Pinochet and his brethren rid his country of a poisonous scourge.

In the 1970s Straw and many of his fellow-travelling socialist colleagues were up in arms about Pinochet, and the BBCTV drama reminded us of whence Straw and his ilk have come. Pinochet can thank the fact that Straw, like all our socialists, puts the limo ahead of principle. All his socialist buddies were aghast when Straw used a made-up medical excuse to repatriate the great man, rather than stick up for his principles and send Pinochet to Spain. But because of Straw’s weakness and dithering, Pinochet had to lose more than year of his life.

“Foreign policy” critic is code for Saddam apologist
But back to Condi. Her magnificent performance touring Lancashire showed her charm and resilience under fire. It is always amazing to me that these protestors against “foreign policy” are never labelled as Saddam lovers. These Islamic protestors in Blackburn were allying themselves with the murderous dictator Saddam, and with the mindless vermin who strap bombs to themselves and murder the innocent, every day in Iraq, in the name of Islam. These protestors are against what regular Iraqis clearly want, representative government and the rule of law.

As we pass the 3rd anniversary of the liberation of Iraq, it’s a good time to bypass what the BBC and most of Britain’s mainstream media are trying to brainwash us into thinking.

The Wall Street Journal recently reminded us of the consequences of U.S. failure in Iraq. Here’s a summary of their reasoning –

The U.S. would lose all credibility on weapons proliferation – The toppling of Saddam meant he could no longer pursue WMD, while Libya’s Gadhaffi read the runes accurately that he would be next, and gave up his voluntarily. Iran is apparently close to acquiring nuclear weapons. If Iran’s mad mullahs see the U.S. humiliated in Iraq they will carry on regardless producing their nukes.

Middle-East instability – U.S. forced withdrawal would give the green light to Iran to meddle in southern Iraq, Syria would feel free to resume interfering in Lebanon, not to mention Israel.

U.S. Muslim reform credibility would vanish – There is a general, admittedly weak, move in the Middle East to spread democracy and reform Islam. An Iraqi betrayal would end all that.

Osama Bin Laden (or his inheritors) would get a boost –
Secretary of State Condi Rice, with her calm but steely vision of what’s right, is a worthy leader of the West’s fight against the scourge of radical Islam. All the time she is at the helm on behalf of George W, there will be no sudden retreat from Iraq.
Rowan Williams Shows His Ignorance

Lest you think I only beat on militant Muslims for their mindless medievalness, did you hear Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme last week? Williams was talking about global warming and how we are all going to die unless we get out of our 4x4s and keep to the speed limit.

“And yet unless there's a real change in attitude we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die," Williams said, in reply to questions about the consequences of not complying with the Kyoto agreement to cut back CO2 emissions.

He even manages to speak in a Church of England voice. He surely is the Right Reverend J.C. Flannel in disguise.

I’m not sure what is the most alarming though. There is Williams’ slavish and uneducated acceptance of the science behind humanity’s involvement with global warming. You would think that a person with huge resources behind him might take the trouble to do some research. He would find that there is no scientifically proven link between human activity and global warming. No surprise though that a right-on fool like Williams would take this simpleton and fashionable view. But the last part of the quote is even more disturbing. He really seems to think that billions will die in the third world if Kyoto is not implemented. Everybody who’s ever walked past an economics bookshop knows that if Kyoto was vigorously implemented, western economies would be wrecked, and the biggest sufferers would be the poor of Africa and Asia. The climate might be made to change (of course, it wouldn’t make any difference) but what is absolutely sure – the most vulnerable will be the billions of poor in the world who Williams claims to speak for.

Neil Winton – April 2, 2006

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