Posted on 07/14/2005 6:48:53 AM PDT by Pokey78
ONE thing you learn when disaster strikes is how right you were about the dodgy specimens in your midst.
You knew that shameless self-pitier who forever whinges about life's irrelevancies ("my boss just doesn't appreciate me - wah!") would still be whinging when corpses were being hauled from an underground system they use every day.
That Scientologists would flood the death scene offering survivors "spiritual healing" (otherwise known as unlimited access to your wallet).
That a spineless French politician, such as Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe, would trample on the feelings of a grief-stricken city, trying to save his career by calling London's Olympic bid corrupt. That the BNP would use the blown-apart bus on pamphlets that spewed hate against immigrants
And that America would view the atrocity solely in the context of how it affects its own interests.
How typical was it that all of its 12,000 servicemen stationed in Britain should be banned from travelling within the M25 for five days, as Londoners tried to show the terrorists and the wider world that life goes on as normal?
Once again we saw, as we have in the numerous deaths through "friendly fire", when the heat is on, the US military operates like a selfish shower of headless chickens.
It was the same back home, where the Gibbon-in-Chief used the bombings to convince a sceptical electorate that soldiers may be dying in Iraq, but hey, they're doing so to stop your local subway being blown up.
The American Press, largely a gutless shower of sycophants, have demonised the UK for its tolerance of Muslims.
Commentators labelled "Londonistan" the single biggest threat to American security, and demanded all Britons get a visa before entering their airspace. Thanks buddies. It's good to know you're right behind the people who foolishly stuck their heads above the parapet with you in Iraq.
Good to know you can't wait for our dead to be buried before you frighten off your already-paranoid citizens from coming to Londonistan.
But rather than asking if it's still safe to move within the M25, why aren't Americans asking how the figurehead who inspires these atrocities is still at large?
Why, 46 months after Osama bin Laden attacked New York, has America not captured its Public Enemy Number One, even though he is known to be sitting in caves in countries they're friendly with.
You're the most technologically-advanced nation in history, capable as you showed last week of singling out a comet, 83 million miles away, hurtling at 23,000mph through space, and landing a bomb on it.
So why is bin Laden free to organise or inspire attacks on the free world?
Might it have something to do with the fact that were he captured, your mythical War on Terror would begin to be over, as would the trillion-dollar budgets handed to the men who really run your country and our world. The US military. The ones too frightened to step inside the M25 for nearly a week.
But heck, guys, maybe I'm just a cynical Brit. Maybe if the comet had a beard it would still be out there.
A comet is miles wide and not trying to hide in a hole in the ground? Shut up and eat your scones.
Since life isn't going on normally, no matter how hard they pretend, wouldn't keeping 12,000 American servicemen (and girls) out of the way for a few days be helpful?
Bitter much?
We're in a no-win situation with papers like the Mirror.
Screw'em.
Even childish rants sometimes have a poignancy to them, methinks.
Anyway, the comet with a beard thing was funny though.
PS: No excuse for not getting Osama's head on a spear for display as star exhibit at the Ground Zero Museum, IMHO.
In the US, moonbats only have places like Kos and the Democratic Underground. In the UK, they can write for the Daily Mirror and get paid.
We can get it, but will they display it...?
Of course it would in addition to the fact that Americans of any stripe are targets, they are even more a target if they are military personel.
Just typical mindnumbing leftist droolings........
Somehow I don't think killing bin Laden will "end" the War on Terror.
I don't either. But let's do it anyway :)
Don't worry, we will bail you out when you need it again. It's just because we like your music...
Gimme a break - you're just another vapid leftist using the mangled bodies of your countrymen to promote your political agenda.
Oh, I dunno. Maybe because of bogus intelligence information we got from your country? Just a thought.
Seriesly though, this guy doesn't speak for all of Britain. He's probably wearing a Michael Moore t-shirt.
Best line of the article. Not far from true.
I'm all for it! Lot's of dancin' in the street and stuff. But still tons of work left to do.
"So why is bin Laden free to organise or inspire attacks on the free world?"
Gee, I dunno mate....How is it that the Brit contingent in Afghanistan hasn't got him yet...or the Frenchies or anyone else besides us?
I would imagine the order not to go to London was to prevent any one of your whiners from creating an mob incident where our boys might be attacked.
Only jerks would now try to call it something else, like being chicken.
His head on a pike, my FRiend - his head on a pike.
There's a right way, and a wrong way, of accomplishing any task.
I watch Fox News, so correct me if I'm wrong: I haven't heard much of anyone demonizing London for it's tolerance of Muslims.
I did see on Drudge where some people beat up and killed a Muslim. I think that was in England.
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