Blair's Easter Message to the Oppressed: "It's All Your Fault". posted by Richard Seymour

Tony Blair has employed former porn-writer Alistair Campbell to knock together another shoddy article for him, which The Absurder has seen fit to publish . One could easily waste hours tearing his feeble adumbrations to shreds, but I'll just pick the most revelatory and sententious nugget of bullshit from the miasma:

"The terrorists prey on ethnic or religious discord. From Kashmir to Chechnya, to Palestine and Israel, they foment hatred, they deter reconciliation..."

Anyone wonder how the coalition fucked up so badly with such an unimpeachable intellect at work? It wouldn't occur to our Prime Minister that the reason there is hatred in Palestine and Chechnya is because the aggressors have shown absolutely no interest in abating their terror. They have made "reconciliation" impossible. But then, the PM has never been known for his discrimination in handling blood-thirsty aggressors...


The Morning After.


"Tony, Are You Putting On Weight?"

Anyone seeking a more level-headed analysis of the situation in Iraq could do worse than check out Ken McLeod's assessment of what he felicitously calls the "Easter Rising":

"The uprising could fizzle. Already, however, it has revealed that the US-led occupation of Iraq is built on sand. The Fallujah insurgents and the Army of the Mahdi, few in themselves, have drawn mass - not necessarily majority - support. What must be far more worrying for the US is what props to its rule the insurgents have kicked away. The IGC puppet government, to which a very nominal 'sovereignty' is supposed to be handed at the end of June, is scurrying to dissociate itself from the US military's handling of the situation; hence the IGC negotiations with the insurgents. Given how unwelcome to the US military these negotiations must be, one can imagine what pressures the IGC must have brought to bear. Perhaps the whole arrangement might have been on the point of collapse. The IP, ICDC, and even the Iraq Armed Forces, built up over the past year, are not just unreliable but in many cases actively hostile..."