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General Category => General Election 2010 => Topic started by: Phil Talbot on April 02, 2010, 05:21:51 PM

Title: 'We should interrupt their fun' - by John Pilger
Post by: Phil Talbot on April 02, 2010, 05:21:51 PM

'Obama, Britain and the age of permanent war'
By John Pilger
New Statesman
26 March 2010

'In the coming election campaign in Britain, the [main party]candidates will refer to this war only to laud "our boys". The candidates are almost identical political mummies, shrouded in the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. As Blair demonstrated a mite too eagerly, the British elite love America because America allows them to barrack and bomb the natives and call themselves "partners". We should interrupt their fun.
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