CALL THAT SUPPORT? YANKS FOR NOTHING (Bash America alert)

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.

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.

"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. "

OOH, that's a good one .. we let Bin Laden be free so we can continue this war on terror that we enjoy so much... LOL.

Question: If bin laden were in custody, do you think it would have stopped the London bombings?

Best to remember that this is the Guardian- a paper that has even LESS credibility than the NYT and THAT is saying something.
I do not believe that this paper speaks for the majority over there.
But just to address a point or two...
My guess is that the military over there has been told not to travel IN UNIFORM (something not mentioned in the article). They were so ordered after 9-11 here as well, and they are discouraged from traveling in uniform in Germany all the time.
I have NEVER heard London referred to "Londonstan" until reading this article. I wonder how long the writer took to think this one up?
I, like probably a million others, sent a letter expressing sorrow and empathy for their losses. We know what it's like to have a bunch of sub-human savages attack for no reason.
The writer claims that UBL is hiding in a cave in a "friendly nation"? By all means, let's give HIM a few bucks and HE can go get him, if he knows so much.
Just don't forget folks- THIS is the Brits' version of MoveOn.org...
As to the comet- I have one question for this twit...Don't you wish YOU had the technology? and doesn't it just kill you to have to depend on US to drag you into the 21st century...?

When we catch Usama, Brian will complain that we're mistreating him.
When we hang him, he will complain the rope was too bristle-like.
Our treatment of his body will be an affront to Islam . . .
and so forth and so on.

One day, President Bush stepped out of his boat and walked across the surface of the lake to fetch some bait for his party. Headline in the Mirror? (see tagline)

"This is not a war on terror, terror is an emotion. It's a war on radical islam."

Right. It's been said that to strike back at the innocent among the muslims 'helps the terrorist win'. This is nonsense. I am NOT advocating wanton discrimination or retaliation and think it is harmful, but frankly the terrorists don't 'win' if that happens and mosques get torched - they don't give a toss one way or the other.

The terrorists win when the west is afraid, due to terrorism, to dare criticize nor stop the hate-mongering of the Jihadists, so they can 'breed' their ideas with impunity amongst the alienated youths of the muslim (and western) world ... we are partway down that slippery slope already.

One of our key weapons in the fight is to completely isolate the radical islamic element ideologically.

oops..sorry- Daily mirror...not a whole lot of difference between this and the Guardian. This is the one with the half-naked pics on page 8, right? I guess they have to have something to get people to buy it.

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