Not Your Sweetie

Felix posts on Bartcop Forum about our "allies":




There was a report the other day that Turkey was being bribed with $4 billion in loans
and military equipment, but before that another story appeared that said the "real"
amount of the bribe was about $23 billion. Every step of Turkish engagement is being
run by their parliament to make it look like there is public assent. Nevertheless, the
Turks are 80% or more opposed to war on Iraq. IOW, the government and military is
being bought off against the will of the Turkish people.

Eastern European "allies" are being bribed both with money and with attention. They
seem to need to be prostrate at the feet of a superpower, and with Moscow on the
decline, they choose Warshington. The fact that European unity is being undermined
and demolished is merely a bonus. Whoo-hoo. Nevertheless, the majority of Eastern
Europeans are opposed to war on Iraq. Their governments are at odds with their
people.

The Fascist "allies," Spain and Italy, are merely doing what comes naturally, hooking
up with their pals (just like Spain and Italy got it on with Germany when time was.) To
the Fascist governments of these countries, Bush is a suitable heir to Mussolini, Franco
and Hitler. Why can't anyone in our own media figure that out? Nevertheless, the
people of Spain and Italy are passionately opposed to war on Iraq. Yesterday there
was a "disturbance" in the Italian parliament as Fascist Duce Berlusconi read out his
reasons for backing Bush. Fight broke out. The police were called. The "leftist" agitator
MPs expelled.

Anti-BushWar sentiment is about 75% in Britain. Nevertheless, Blair goes right along
with Bush, spurring him this way and that sometimes, but dedicated to BushWar. Our
British "ally" is essentially the very articulate Tony Blair and no one else.

Russia, China, France, Germany, Belgium, Mexico, many, many other nations, and the
Vatican, nearly all Christian denominations -- among others -- are strongly opposed to
unilateral American (or Anglo-American) action on Iraq. They can stop it, but the risk
is great. For us and for them. They may have to use the argument that Bush is too
much like Hitler, regardless of Saddam's perfidy, and the priority for the World is to
thwart Bush, before dealing with the other, lesser, monsters.

The shame I feel for my country at this moment could not be greater.

The junta may get its war on Iraq, but the consequences for all of us (let alone the
exterminated Iraqis) will linger and fester and metastasize.