[tricky_k_1972]

British liberal, socialist, condescending Cr@p

[headsonpikes]

"Rogue state" bump.

Thank God Americans are willing to be rogues!

Twits like this Limey sap are an embarassment to snivelling wretches everywhere.

[EggsAckley]

ATTN: MR. PILGER

[hove]

Geez....are they still ticked cuz we kicked their butts and declared our independence? It's time they got over it.

[JPJones]

In recent months, the American rogue state has torn up the Kyoto treaty, which would decrease global warming

oh puhleeeese

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Mourn on the Fourth of July

[USNBandit]

During the heyday of the British Empire, Indian and other colonial troops were used in a similar role, although the British, unlike the Americans, were also prepared to sacrifice their own soldiers

Tell that to the Australians that marched off to be slaughtered at Galipoli and the Canadians that were sacrificed at Dieppe. I guess this guy doesn't recall all the Americans killed in the two World Wars.

The reason the U.S. hasn't sustained higher casualties lately is that the U.S. spends a lot of time and thought learning how to fight effectively while minimizing our casualties. Only soldiers that survive a battle are able to fight tomorrow's fight. Unfortunately, British history seems to glorify the wrong side of the body count. The Charge of the Light Brigade, Jutland, the sinking of the Bismark, and the Falklands campaign are not examples we choose to follow.

[thepitts]

JOHN PILGER

If by chance you should find yourself reading this reply I would like to invite you to KISS MY ASS.

[thepitts]

Who are the most enduring terrorists?

by John Pilger.

http://www.users.bigpond.com/nlevine/misc_terrorists.html

[JessicaDragonet]

During my lifetime, America has been waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places. Moreover, far feom being the main perpertrators of terrorism, islamic peoples have been it's victims-more often than not of an American fundamentalism and it's proxies.

John Pilger/The Guardian/9/21/2002

This gives you an idea of where Mr. Pilger's head is at.

[dr_who]

There's no reasoning with these sorts of idiot pinkos. Unfortunately, it seems like they own the microphone in Britain and Europe. Few have the stamina/bravery/patience to attack the non-sequiturs that automatons spew out. From what I can tell, Labour dominates the press and the media over there. The more sacred cows that country's political debate produces, the more the lefty automatons can get away with. Britain has a choice between drifting into a bottomless pit of statism or making a major U-turn. Looks like its going to get worse for them before it gets better though.

[Pokey78]

An accompanying editorial from The Mirror:

AMERICA IS ABUSING ITS VAST POWER

TODAY is July 4, American Independence Day. Always a special day for the United States, but this year of particular significance.

In the past 12 months the American people suffered the atrocity of September 11, when suicidal killers struck at the commercial and military hearts of their nation.

In the weeks that followed, there was near-universal sympathy for the US and widespread support for the "war on terrorism" launched by President Bush against al-Qaeda and its backers.

They were fighting not just to preserve the freedom and independence they celebrate each July 4 but also to protect the world from terror.

But support for Mr Bush and his aides is not as strong today.

The war they have waged has been a sham, with the only noticeable result the replacement of the hated Taliban regime in Afghanistan with one which is a bit less frightening, as John Pilger says in today's Daily Mirror.

The killing of 40 people at a wedding party this week was only the latest act of slaughter against innocent civilians.

The problem for the UK is that Tony Blair was too willing to give unqualified support to Mr Bush. The Royal Marines, the finest fighting force in the world, were ordered in to make the President look good.

Today the Marines are on their way home. Their mission has cost millions and achieved nothing.

Al-Qaeda vanished before they got there, leaving them chasing shadows.

The American people are not to blame. It is their leaders who are abusing their country's overwhelming power.

Tony Blair should be telling the President to stop playing to the US ultra-right and start acting with the responsibility the world expects from his country.

[capitan_refugio]

You need to cut Mr. Pilger some slack. He hasn't had his rear porked lately.

[McGavin999]

Any doubts NOW why our president is insisting on immunity from the ICC? It's because liars like this would do anything in their power to bring this country down. This is so full of venom and hatred it's jaw dropping.

This moron had better hope that we never act they way he's claiming we act, because if we ever do, this guy and his ilk will be the first ones to go.

[FryingPan101]

Rope. Lots of rope.

[Brilliant]

The Brits simply can't get over losing the Revolutionary War.

[vannrox]

If this guy really believes what he's written than he is a LUNATIC! THis fellow is so removed from reality it is hard to believe. I suspect that he is an idealist. Constantly living in a fairy tale world, he has high and IMPOSSIBLE ideals because we live in the REAL WORLD.

I also find that he is probably never really in the real world. I also think that he has never lived a real life. I don't think he knows the difference between reality and a dream.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Still bitter over that whole Revolution thing, eh?

[swampfox98]

I could kiss my many times great grandpa who fought in the war against the British in 1773, or thereabouts. Thanks, Gramps for helping rid our great land of the British vermin.

[tet68]

ordinary people. There were no al-Qaeda or Taliban here."

Cong bik, Cong bik, No VC here!

[Billthedrill]

Actually, given what the lamentable Mr. Pilger appears to be for, we're doing pretty well. But I'd remind him that his statement The capacity of the American military machine to smash impoverished countries was never in dispute is entirely false; that he and his were delighted to see the U.S. embroiled in a war we couldn't possibly win, the graveyard of the Soviet Union, etc, etc, blah blah blah - what is notable about Mr. Pilger is his regret that this did not take place and his intense sour-grapes criticism of activities that prevented it. He is, in essence, declaring victory and getting out of it.

But it won't wash. The fact of the matter is that a particularly nasty state-supported terrorist organisation has been smashed and the state that supported it overturned in favor of a government considerably more conducive to all that Mr. Pilger says that he stands for, except, of course, for the fact that its predecessor, vile, oppressive, and disgusting, was fighting the United States. That seems to redeem it somehow in Mr. Pilger's eyes. Let us not forget whose side that puts him on.