Friends

BBC World is on television at the moment and George Bush is talking live at the EU-USA summit in Slovenia. He is saying that, if more societies were free in the Middle East, the world would be a more peaceful place. Is he also referring to the disgusting regimes in Saudi, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf States? When I was younger I used to think that, while a lot of people read “The Sun” they didn’t actually believe what they were reading. Sadly now, older and wiser, I realise that people are indeed often both incredibly gullible and a trifle thick. The conclusion has to be that some people do indeed think that Syria and Iran are horrible nasty dictatorships and that Israel is a paradigm of a free society and Saudi, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf States are moderate voices in a sea of radical Islam. What a lot of bloody nonsense. Syria and Iran are far from perfect but the great “democrat”, Bush, who stole the 2000 election, a racist Israel that discriminates against its Arab population and that continues to illegally occupy land, while bullying its neighbours and the artificial creations of Saudi Arabia and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan where torture is practiced and where, as in the Gulf States, little tin pot despots were installed to protect the interests first of the British and then later on the United States are all hardly in a position to lecture.
The picture shows George and his very very close friend, the very nice magnificent all powerful, rich and handsome great liberal democrat, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.