Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Iraq: Four Years On

Amazingly, 29% of the British population still believes that Blair and Bush were right to take military action in Iraq. You have to wonder where these people have been for the last four years. Certainly not in Iraq itself, where billions of dollars have been spent, over four thousand coalition troops and countless more civilians have been killed, and yet only one in three people thinks the situation has improved since Saddam was deposed. Presumably they also believe the First World War was a good way for young people to let off steam, that the Twin Towers falling was the second most important TV event in history after Chantelle winning Celebrity Big Brother, that the NHS is safe in David Cameron's hands, and that it's no use doing anything about global warming cos we only cause 2% of emissions and it said in the paper that the Chinese and Indians have got massive power stations and dead cheap flights now too. And how about the 5% of respondents who think the mess in the Middle East has made Britain a safer place? Do they all drink in pubs near army barracks, or did they just not get that bit about weapons of mass destruction?

A rhetorical question: Are people really so stupid?

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