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Nothing to do with me mum

December 20, 2006 on 8:15 am | In Uncategorized |

It’s no wonder our prime minister gets on so well with the president of the USA. They both obviously came from families where denying responsibility was the most successful strategy for not getting into trouble. Didn’t we all hate those kids who could get away with flat denial, a wide-eyed look of innocence and a plaintive “Jeez mum it wasn’t me”? George and John must have been masters of the art.

How else to explain their instinctive refusal to accept any responsibility whatsoever for any of the numerous minor inconveniences and major disasters they have inflicted on the world? It’s more than a deliberate ploy (although it’s that as well), it’s second nature. Everything they say is hedged around with qualifications, expressed in the passive voice, their whole discourse sending the message that they are not personally responsible for anything. Unless there’s some credit to be claimed of course; then they can’t wait to start using “I me my”.

Latest example: “Mr. Bush said he and the Pentagon leaders had discussed “how to win a war that we now find ourselves in …”

Ain’t that terrific? ‘A war that we now find ourselves in’. Well golly gosh, look what happened, the military went and invaded another country in the worst case of unprovoked aggression since Pearl Harbour, without a plan about what to do when the Iraqi army quit shooting back, and now we find ourselves in a bloody war. Why didn’t someone warn me this might happen.

They won’t make the same mistake with Iran. The neo-cons are already spreading the word that in fact, even though most Americans didn’t notice, Iran’s been at war with the USA for 27 years. So if America bombs the shit out of the place, just remember it was the Iranians who started it. And if it all turns nasty later, well that will be another fine mess they got George into.