After watching yet another documentary, this time presented by the wonderful Jon Snow and with contributions from John Simpson, about the murderous disrespect for human life, human dignity and international law perpetrated by the current US administration in the Iraq war, I feel more ashamed than ever to be a citizen of the UK, whose government, in its ceaseless appeasement of the Bush regime in an apparent attempt to civilise it, seems to me as discredited as Quisling's puppet government in occupied Norway.
The UK under Blair now has better relations with a country which doesn't even recognise the International Criminal Court, which simply invades the states it doesn't like, murdering their citizens as it sees fit, than it has with two of its nearest neighbours, France and Germany.
My long-held idea of one day surrendering my UK citizenship, and taking on that of the EU state where I eventually settle, probably Belgium or Germany, is becoming more and more of a serious consideration. It wouldn't ever really change anything, but, if global alliances stay the way they are, I'd like to stand up and be counted on the side of international law, rather than unilateral domination and shameful appeasement.
Posted by Eurodan at June 6, 2003 12:17 AM
HEAR HEAR.
One wonders, if the American people (who, we should remember, were not so stupid as to actually elect Bush II) had the temerity to dethrone him at the next election, whether the Pentagon would order an invasion of the US?...
Posted by: Erato at June 6, 2003 10:51 AMSilly question. The American people wouldn't dare do that. And even if they would, do you think that the current administration is so stupid as to have not learnt the lesson from last time? I'm sure that they have their best people on it right now, and all will be sorted just as soon as they've finished "finding" Iraqi weapons of mass destruction ;-)
Posted by: Adam at June 8, 2003 11:53 PM