This war is bogus
Here is what Michael Meacher said today. “The conclusion”, he says [in conclusion] “must surely be that the ‘global war on terrorism’ has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda - the US goal of world hegemony, built around securing by force command over the oil supplies required to drive the whole project.”
Later in the news, “two plus two equals four” claims top mathematician.
What’s interesting in the response to Michael Meacher’s off-message speech is the US Embassy saying his opinions “would be monstrous, and monstrously offensive, if they came from someone serious or credible”. But surely Meacher’s speech is important precisely because until recently he was widely regarded as serious and credible - at least by corporate media - as a member of Tony B.Liar’s cabinet? What’s changed? Well the US Embassy spokesman is demonstrating the prevailing anti-democratic ideology: if one suspects Meacher’s analysis to be true � or at least containing more truth than the official version - then one is immediately unserious and incredible.
The opposite is also true: though it is completely ridiculous to believe that the invasion of Iraq had any humanitarian motivation � if a member of the US administration states this as a fact, then it passes into law, gaining a bizarre aura, so that even blatant lies glow like the sun of truth, and any doubt is dismissed as the delusions of a mad conspiracy theorist, which what Meacher was accused of being by the BBC’s supposedly anti-war Today programme. Serving democracy, it seems, is not a matter of fact and debate, but upholding myths.
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