Showing posts with label cruise missiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cruise missiles. Show all posts

Tuesday 10 September 2013

Should Psychopaths Be Allowed To Rule The World?


       From the vast majority of the people of the world the cry is "No war in Syria", from the Western marble halls of power, where millionaires and corporate parasites slither around greasing each other's arsehole with money, the call is for war. Who should prevail? Should it be the small bunch who never feel the horror of battle, but stand to gain in power and wealth, or should be the majority who will bear the brunt of the ensuing chaos unleashed by this act of brutal cruelty to be visited on the people of Syria? Sanity and justice should answer our questions. The people of Syria are suffering enough without Billy the Kid riding in gung-ho, and shooting them up with a few cruise missiles. We are governed by dangerous greedy psychopaths, if we govern ourselves, there would be no war.




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Wednesday 28 August 2013

Let's Bomb A Broken Country!!


       Some images of Syria before the cruise missiles go in, and cruise missiles are more destructive than anything that has been used so far. The country is a disaster area, a war torn waste land, a country of a suffering people. Why would anybody suggest bombing a country in this state. If you want a fire to go out, you don't feed it. We the people are not being told the true agenda, but I would suggest, follow the money.















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Tuesday 22 March 2011

THE HAND OF HYPOCRISY.

     
      As Western Cruise missiles blast holes in Libya's infrastructure, killing Libyans to save Libyans, and possibly laying the ground work for a civil war, nobody is saying where they go from here. How long will the no-fly zone last, don't know. What do we do if the Libyans killing Libyans drags on in a long stalemate, do we send in the Western cavalry to take sides and give one side a wee push, more or less guaranteeing a prolonged civil war and possible occupation. Just to keep the peace mind you. As in Iraq and Afghanistan, the moral policemen are up to the necks in shit. The idea that this will be a nice clean surgical operation with all of Libya being ever thankful to the West is an illusion. We have been “policing” Iraq since 1991 and Afghanistan since 2001. When does our involvement in Libya end and at what cost? Not counting the Libyan deaths and injured, there is already one American plane down with one pilot missing, and we have just started.

        Setting aside the human horror of what is happening in Libya and casting a glance at the financial side, there must be questions. Each time a Tornado jet runs a sortie it takes approximately £30,000 of fuel. How many have we run so far? If a Tornado is brought down there is the £50 million cost of a replacement. Each cruise missile that is fired cost £500,000. There have been more than 110 cruise missiles fired so far. A quick calculation comes up with £55 million already up in smoke and misery from cruise missiles alone, with the arms industry rubbing its hands at the thought of all those being replaced. I don't know what proportion of those cruise missiles were fire by the UK but I reckon that we would fire our fair share. Then of course we have our submarines out there in the Med. and I have no doubt our boys wanted a shot at firing their gear off, I wonder what it cost to send a sub to the Med. and then fire off a few £500,000 missiles? While this little pygmy war is being played out in Libya, let's not forget our long running and on going £4 billion a year affair in Afghanistan.

       I know you can't put a price on human life but at a time when we in the UK are being faced with draconian cuts to every fibre of the social structure of our society, wage cuts and mass unemployment, is this the right policy. Can we in the UK really afford to strut around the world bombing democracy into other countries? When we look at the figures of death and misery resulting from our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan can Libya be justified?

       Meanwhile in nearby Yemen and Bahrain protesters are being brutally crushed but no call for a no-fly zone. Well Bahrain is really a US naval base, which is very handy to have so near all that oil, and Bahrain is also on best buddy terms with that other autocratic despot regime, Saudi Arabia. So we don't want to upset that little power structure do we? Then of course no call for a no-fly zone over Israel while it carried out its policy of genocide in Gaza 2008/09
 
      It's all hypocrisy and is really about oil, resources and power, the Western powers have proved often enough that when it comes to the people of the Middle East and Africa, they don't give a shit.