DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ...?

I see that Willie Hague has condemned the bombings in Iraq yesterday which cost at least 60 lives.

They were probably sectarian in origin, inspired by the exile of the Shi'ite deputy first minister to the Kurdish north of the country, and were exploded as the last Americans left Iraq.

I join with Mr Hague in condemning the killings.

I did not, however, join with Mr Hague and his party when they stood four-square behind Tony Blair and George Bush in their determination to beat Hans Blix to the starting line by bombing the hell out of the country, in the name of some mystical weapons of mass destruction, which the Americas just absolutely KNEW were there, and they had photographs to prove it.  The British secret service too, had incontrovertible evidence of their existence, based on a ten year old PhD thesis written by an Iraqi dissident.

Needless to say, the photographs were as reliable as the thesis, because in the intervening 8 years, although hundreds of thousands of people have died, innumerable have been maimed and injured, homes and  businesses lost, millions spent, and a massive step back has been taken in human rights, particularly for women,  not a single weapon or trace of a weapon has been found.

George DubYa Bush has retired to a job more suited to his doubtless talents (chopping down trees on his extensive Texas ranch),  and Antony Linton Blair has turned into a money making machine caring not what he does to make a buck. To cover for his iniquitousness he has apparently become some sort of Christian (although a bloody funny sort of Christian it seems to me).

Two not very wise monkeys. 

I assume that everyone who was anyone knew that this WMD nonsense was a scam.

I imagine that Saddam had simply become an irritation to the West, that is to say Bushair (a sort of amalgam of Bush and Blair, with our man hanging out from behind DubYa).

So back to Mr Hague.

Democracy is a grand system of government, and dictatorship is not. But not one size fits all in this world, and depending on the country you have to rule, sometimes you need to do what you need to do. Sometimes there is no other way to rule. Democracy hasn't really worked that well in Iraq, has it?

Try to think of this the next time the opportunity to through Britain's weight around arises.

Unless you REALLY know how to fix something, even if it's broke, don't try.