Sixty attacks a month on British forces as 1,000 soldiers go Awol
Attacks on British troops in Basra have risen to 60 a month since the start of the year, representing an increase of 26% on last years figures.
This coincides with reports, denied by the government, that large numbers of British troops are going AWOL.
Blair has devised a formula regarding Iraq that he sticks to no matter what reality exists on the ground. It is bizarrely Orwellian.The BBC reported that more than 1,000 soldiers have gone awol for more than 30 days since Iraq was invaded in 2003, and that about 900 have not been found. In 2005, 377 went AWOL and are still missing.
The Ministry of Defence vehemently denied that Iraq has caused a sharp increase in the number of soldiers deserting or going absent without leave. They claimed that the numbers going AWOL in 2004-05 were the lowest since 2001.
Tony Blair has attributed the upsurge in violence to desperation on the part of terrorists who had hoped to prevent the formation of Iraq's first elected government.
He claims that the violence is by people opposed to democracy. Therefore the nearer we get to a democracy, the greater the violence will become.
With this sleight of hand Blair is able to project defeat as success, the more the carnage grows - the nearer we must be to victory. You have to admire the sheer chutzpah of his position. He has devised, as only he could, a way of reversing reality. He asks you to look at hell on Earth and applaud the chaos, for that very chaos is supposed to be a sign of impending victory. Indeed, the greater the chaos, the nearer the victory becomes.
Orwell would have been proud of him.
However, even Blair will one day have to face the inevitable.
An Iraqi government has now been formed. Democracy established. Surely by Blair's tortured logic the violence should now be seen to be receding?
The fact that it is not will simply be ignored.
Both Bush and Blair now live in such a rose tinted garden that reality actually has no chance of reaching either of them.
The failure that is Iraq is so uniquely theirs that it would be foolish to ever expect them to see it.
That's why there should be an effort made to remove both Bush and Blair from office post haste.
Very little real progress can ever be made whilst these two men remain in their positions.
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