WOW. READ THIS:
HERE is a question for the pollsters to place before the British people: “Does this war make you less proud of your country, or more?”
The reason I ask is that in recent weeks I have lost count of the number of times I have heard commentators, politicians and peaceniks of every hue utter the phrase: “I am ashamed to be British.”
And yet I strongly suspect that for the vast un-mouthy majority of British people, exactly the opposite is true. . . .
I have felt pride in my country every time I see images of British soldiers. Those soldiers are ferocious in battle, magnanimous and humane when the fighting is done. . . .
The war hasn’t quite worked out the way the peace camp must have hoped.
Not enough mindless slaughter.
Yes, there have been deeply disturbing images of dead and burned Iraqi children. But do we honestly imagine that Allied forces, fighting a war unrestrained by political concerns, didn’t kill and maim countless numbers of innocent French, Dutch and Belgian children in the Second World War, never mind the babies we burned alive in Japan and Germany.
We just didn’t see pictures of them.
The peaceniks must be fuming. You would be hard pressed to search through history and find an army that has behaved with the dignity and decency of the British forces in Iraq.
And who can now doubt that it was right to fight this war?
The weekend brought the sickening discovery of a Saddam Hussein death factory in Az Zubayr, an entire warehouse full of the tortured, mutilated and finally executed human beings discarded in bin liners and fertiliser bags.
Their horrific wounds were lovingly documented, their moment of death photographed for Saddam’s records. Some of the victims were women. It seems that most of them were soldiers. Iraqi soldiers. This is how Saddam treats his own people.
And the peace camp still has the gall to call Bush and Blair butchers. They are the war criminals even when the evidence against the bestiality of Saddam’s stinking regime is overwhelming. . . .
Former United Nations worker Vanessa Lough says that over the past two weeks children as young as four have been snatched from their parents and hung from lampposts or burned alive in southern Iraq. Scores of children have been executed as a way of punishing their parents.
ONE man had committed the terrible crime of laughing with British soldiers. They (Ba’ath party goons) told him he had betrayed Saddam in an act of treason, says the former UN worker, who now works as an interpreter for aid organisations.
“He received a broken leg and a severe beating. The men made the father watch as they set his son alight with petrol.”
Bush and Blair are the war criminals?
I hope the peace camp makes it out to Iraq some time soon to explain to the Iraqis that it is actually the West who are the cold-blooded killers.
I hope that George Galloway, Tony Benn, John Pilger and Robert Fisk can make the Iraqi people see the light – that it is the Coalition forces who are neo-Nazis, intent on stealing oil and slaughtering children. Still ashamed to be British? Personally I couldn’t be more proud that British troops are risking their lives to free this ravaged country.
Follow the link to discover that this appeared in The Mirror of all places — and read the whole thing.