Jack Straw has insulted Iraqis by asking their elected representatives to hasten the formation of a government in return for an invasion and occupation that they did not ask for and by enumerating CF losses without mentioning Iraqi direct and indirect losses.
“We will recognize anybody who emerges democratically as the prime minister and vice president, president, and other leaders, whether it's Mr. A, Mr. B, Mr. C. But please, the Americans have lost over 2,000 people. We've lost over 100. There are 140,000 overseas troops here, helping to keep the peace in Iraq and billions -- billions -- of United States dollars, hundreds of millions of British pound sterlings have come into this country. We do have, I think, a right to say that we've got to be able to deal with Mr. A or Mr. B or Mr. C. We can't deal with Mr. Nobody. And that's a problem, okay?”
Jack Straw speaking at Rice's and Straw's press conference in Baghdad, 3rd April 2006
Jack Straw speaking at Rice's and Straw's press conference in Baghdad, 3rd April 2006
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The people of Iraq insult Jack Straw
03.04.2006 23:29
The bottom line is they don't have to fear the knock of their secret police come in the middle of the night to torture them, even those that still have houses rarely have doors for long, and they now feel lucky to escape with just torture.
If they don't show some gratitude and quickly either elect Jack Straw or Condi Rice then we should think of punishing them somehow. Difficult though, we aren't nasty people and so couldn't really threaten them, though we could bluff them though. We could pretend we about to do something really evil - like we could pretend we were about to withdraw. Duplicitious perhaps but they will thank us one day for our great sacrifices.
Danny
I'm not one for cheap jibes, but
04.04.2006 01:43
Oscar Beard