John Pilger argues in \"Blair\u2019s Bombs\"<\/a> , the wide-eyed zealots running American foreign policy today (and the spineless British leaders who are going along with it despite their own intense misgivings)\u00a0 share a measure of responsability for this heartbreaking carnage with the monsters who carried it out.\u00a0 That\u2019s the reality we all need to face as the media and political elite go into overdrive to paper over the\u00a0 Bush\/Blair role in steadily escalating this conflict. <\/p>\nMay God protect us all, from terrorists and crusading neocons alike.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As we mourn the dead in London and pray for peace, we should remember why we\u2019re in this mess in the first place. A deadly dance is going on before the world\u2019s eyes between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden.\u00a0 Like most dances, it requires two eager partners.\u00a0 \u00a0 As John Pilger argues in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-gwot"],"yoast_head":"\n
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