Jesus fucking wept

Jesus fucking wept.

A group of pro-war bloggers is playing a prominent role in a campaign to grant asylum to Iraqis who have been working as translators for the British forces in Iraq. Not all who back the campaign were in favour of the war, but some of its most strident supporters are.

Not so, of course, as various commenters are pointing out. Further to this heartening outbreak of unity I suspect that we’re all holding the silver handled bucket, ready to disgorge its contents over Neil’s fat head as well.

Before you rush to condemn Iraqis who feel ill disposed towards the interpreters, ask yourself a simple question: how would you view fellow Britons who worked for the forces of a foreign occupier, if Britain were ever invaded? History tells us that down through history, Quislings have - surprise, surprise - not been well received, and the Iraqi people's animosity towards those who collaborated with US and British forces is only to be expected.

No, you cretin. The people being murdered in Basra for their association with us are being killed by militias connected to parties elected to the government under our auspices: there is no-one involved in this who is not a “collaborator.”

More generally, Neil Clark claims to oppose asylum for Iraqi employees of the British as an extension of his original opposition to the war. What kind of psychopathic fantasy world is this man living in? If you don’t oppose murder, on what basis do you oppose war?

Oh, well: probably all to the good in the end. I once read that 19th century doctors used to refer to "virtuous pus", a horrible excresence that showed a wound was draining. Cometh the hour, cometh the excresence.

Also, I'd like to re-iterate Dan's comment below not to repeat my mistake of using interpreters as shorthand for employees. We don't want the buggers shaving the numbers now that the bandwagon appears to be rolling.

And here's a video demonstrating what "collaborators" might expect.

Have I mentioned the word petition recently?

UPDATE: CiF have closed comments, which is a shame. He was getting a good trampling and he could have been trampled on a little more.

Comments

[Peter]

Re: virtuous pus.

Perhaps you're right. The sheer disgracefulness of Clarke's article has at least publicised the matter to a lot more people. The article was so repellant that it may have galvanised some of them to write to their MPs.