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Edited on Thu Aug-10-06 07:23 PM by Spider Jerusalem
Whe US and Britain against quite a few 'terrorists'; and regardless of who started the war, there are now very many angry, radicalised fundamentalist Muslims who have cause to hate the governments and by extension the people of both the UK and the US. It requires no great leap of logic to conclude that it is HIGHLY plausible that some subset of this group would in fact plan terror attacks of some sort, targeting either the UK or the US. One would, in fact, have to be a fool to think that this WOULD not happen, at some point.
Whether or not Blair is Bush's bum-boy is totally irrelevant to these facts (and I remind you again that Britain has experienced terrorist bombings carried out by disafeccted and radicalised young Muslims, only thirteen months ago...it isn't as though this sort of thing doesn't happen; it's called 'blowback'). Not to mention that the idea that the idea that not only the British government (which is currently deeply split over foreign policy issues, anyway; one fairly senior member of the government has RESIGNED IN PROTEST over the Lebanon crisis) but also the police services (which are largely free of political control, being under the jurisdiction of senior civil servants) are conspiring with the United States to manufacture a trumped-up, nonexistent 'terror threat' merely to divert the attention of Americans from domestic US political matters and prop up Bush's waning poll numbers betrays not only the worst kind of wild-eyed paranoia, but also a very deep ignorance of UK politics (which are very pertinent here) and the actual influence wielded by the United States.
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