
Brother Tim sez: "the only saving grace with Bush was he knew he was in over his head. O'bama on the other hand... has no clue."
A Scott-free, piss-poor substitute for The Daily Ablution
Melanie Phillips posted a seminal piece on Iran on June 16 captioned: 'Oh Dear, How Inconvenient For the Whitehouse.' A lively debate has followed since then and tonight I fired off the following comment, having contributed earlier a few times - some 'moderated' some printed. I fear this one will not get past the censor as I have damned the head honcho of the Speccie with faint praise:
The pussyfooting on Iran by the MSM is deluded. Gerard Vanderleun on American Digest blog explains why in pictures. Riveting! No words needed:
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/iwar/tehran_demonstr.php
What is about to happen there can go one of two ways: a deal between Dinnerjacket and Mousavi brokered by the Mullahs; or a brutal crack-down.
Either way makes all other petty partisan political issues pale into insignificance. And Bill O'Reilly has said tonight that he has been informed by sources close to Obama that the POTUS is hog-tied by a deal that was struck by Bush with the Mullahs to quell Muqtada al-Sadr in return for a free pass pro tem.
At the moment Al-Sadr is 'in counselling'. If this is true it's put up or shut up time, as there are many thousands of Americans troops in jeopardy in Iraq and Afghanistan at the sharp end and if al-Sadr is let loose in Iraq again.... But then, if the wheel comes off, we're all at the sharp end!
And of course QT tonight was devoted mainly to putting our sleazy pygmy politicians in the stocks; giving Polly Gruniad a chance to wear her baubles and prejudices and slip in a plug for proportional representation and letting Esther Rantzen prove beyond any doubt why we should refrain from voting for Independent Candidates in any General Election that may be deigned by the current Administration.
It also gave Charlie Faulkner, the man who usurped the office of Lord Chancellor, then destroyed it, to make the most hypocritical denunciation of Brown that I have so far seen; and that must be a Guinness Book of Records jobbie. At least Don Scotia Nostra of 'This Week' (and this parish) covered Iran in some depth - albeit giving Obama a free pass, as usual. I was pleased to see that even The Proclaimers have accepted that Cameron will defeat Brown in the General Election (unless our barmy dictator really flips, declares Brown Rule in Perpetuity and thereby causes HM QEII to find three suitable duly authorised officers to deem him and make him King of Ealing in a quiet room in St Bernard’s). He'd probably settle for that just now, in view of Lord Butler's drubbing over the Independent Iraq War Inquiry”.