Posted on 07/22/2005 7:51:10 AM PDT by SmithL
LONDON MAYOR Ken Livingstone was positively Churchillian in his response to the July 7 bombings. Rather than blaming British or Israeli policies for terrorist attacks on innocent civilians -- his usual M.O. -- Livingstone condemned the bombings as "mass murder" aimed "at ordinary working- class Londoners" on the day of the attacks.
This week, even before Thursday's attempted bombings, Livingstone was back to his old nasty self. On Wednesday, he told BBC where he placed blame for the bombings: "We have just had 80 years of Western intervention in predominantly Arab lands, because of the Western need for oil."
Red Ken -- as British papers call him -- also blamed "those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy, as we have occasionally seen with the Israeli government." Oh, and he blamed the United States for helping the Afghans fight off a Soviet occupation -- which makes Americans the "creators" of Osama bin Laden.
That is, at first Livingstone blamed the bombers. Then, he blamed everyone but the bombers.
In response, the Daily Telegraph ran Livingstone's mug next to those of Islamic radicals Sheik Omar Bakri Mohamed and Anjem Choudary under the heading "The men who blame Britain." Mohamed blamed British voters and mainstream British Muslims for the bombings while Choudary, the New York Times reported, predicted another attack.
Sounds familiar. Livingstone typifies a certain stripe of lefty who so hates President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair that he or she makes excuses for murderers.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
How is it that sfgate sometimes appears sane?
I thought, at first, that the Lord Mayor had some sand. Now, it seems, he is a coward and a dunce. Londoners deserve far better than this bonehead.
I thought, at first, that the Lord Mayor had some sand. Now, it seems, he is a coward and a dunce. Londoners deserve far better than this bonehead.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
That old "stopped clock is still right twice a day" thing.
Well, since doing business and helping nations develop is considered "intervention" then let's deport every muslim back to a "muslim" country, build a huge wall around the whole rotten mess and let them fester and destroy themselves without any intervention. The Iran-Iraq war is just one example of what will happen behind that wall. 50 years or so should be just about long enough for them to wipe themselves out...then the rest of the can remove the walls, bury the dead and use the now empty lands as the world sees fit...maybe as a museum to the evil of Islam.
He needs a good nail bomb up his ...
Yeah, but the headline is so misleading... I almost blew a fuse just reading it.
forget the part about creating OBL being nonsense, wouldn't helping the Afghans repel a Soviet invasion be a good thing in the eyes of the Muslims?
Red Ken is a bunch of idiots ... which one in particular is manifesting at the moment depends on the dominant voice in his head at the time.
He is one of the jihadists' "useful idiots".
The old broken clock....?
They're equally bad.
Regards, Ivan
He is always Churchillian. Occasionally it's Winston, but more often it's Ward.
"Wouldn't helping the Afghans repel a soviet invasion be a good thing in the eye's of muslims?"Yes i'd think so,but keep in mind were not dealing with logical people:)
I say build a theme park for radical extremist muslims. We could give them Islamo-Disney. Rides like the "Haj-go-round" or "The Jihad", where extremist can slap on an explosive belt and blow themselves up in a simulated Israeli pizza parlor full of children. Add an "Infidel shooting gallery" (like those duck shooting galleries) where the faithful can shhot at little cardboard infidels.
There are endless possibilities in adapting out videogame technologies to suit the Islamofascist.
any other suggestions?
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