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British armed forces world stage presence on a shoestring
BBC News: ID card scheme 'to cost £5.6bn'
BBC News: Ex-chiefs demand more forces cash.
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Labels: British Armed forces, budget, cartoon, Defence, Defence Spending, editorial cartoon, ID Card
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Friday, 9 November 2007 posted by Paul Toner at 02:41
Iran and the 'War on Terror' Pipeline.
I started started on this cartoon after reading the BBC story, "US imposes new sanctions on Iran". Iran is obviously in the sights of the US. How long before it escalates? It went on for years with Iraq, but Saddam Hussain was a different kettle of fish.
I've gotta eat my own words following my last post. I said: Unless it's a tour de force from a recognised and respected editorial cartoonist, people won't dwell on a cartoon trying to discover its meaning. The cartoon's got to be digestible in a heart beat.
Well I broke that rule and have produced this over complicated cartoon about sourcing energy for the west. My apologies. I shall strive to keep it simple in future. I nearly drove myself insane with this one.
I've tried to differentiate between what Bush and his minions are trying to achieve now and the 'Appeasement Pipeline' of the past. It IS a convenience for the sake of making a point. I don't feel I've been hugely successful but I want to get this out to see what reception it gets. Maybe someone will suggest a better model to illustrate what is going on.
It was getting too involved and had developed a life of it's own. It just seemed to grow and grow... now it's gone out, perhaps I can walk away from it for the time being.
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Labels: alternative energy source., British Armed forces, Condoleezza Rice, corruption, Defence, energy. George Bush, fundamentalism, Iraq, War on Terror
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Monday, 29 October 2007 posted by Paul Toner at 02:06
Turkey in Iraq?
It's nothing short of laughable to see Bush's apparent concern for Iraq's stability. As the BBC put it, "US and Iraq fear any incursion could destabilise the only relatively calm region of Iraq"
Turkey wants to take military action against Kurdish separatist rebels (PKK) who they believe to be hiding in what Bush considers to be the only stable region in Iraq.
He wants the Turks to butt-out because he thinks he knows more about maintaining stability in the region... I don't think so. He has proved otherwise in shed loads. He, his allies (we in the UK being the most steadfast so far) and western business interests have brought chaos to Iraq, plundered its wealth and destroyed it's infrastructure. I think he's the last person to advise the Turks or anyone on what is good for the region.
Meanwhile, we the British, exit the whole bloody mess now and pretend that everything is OK. It is not, and we had no business there for the reasons we were given.
If things hot up, we may not get to leave quite as quickly as Brown and most of us here in the UK had hoped.
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Labels: British Armed forces, caricature, Defence, editorial cartoon, George Bush, Gordon Brown, humour, Iraq, PKK, political blog, satire, Turkey
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 posted by Paul Toner at 02:00
Gordon Brown... Hang your head in shame.
As you could tell from my previous posting on 03/10/07 - Troop withdrawal from Iraq, I'm not a great supporter of the Iraq Invasion. Mostly on account of having been given bogus information as to why we were going there and the fact that we'd (the West) collectively maintained Saddam Hussain in power in the first place.
Gordon Brown had the ear of Tony Blair at the time, so for him to now present himself as an agent of deliverance in Iraq sticks in my craw when he's as guilty as Blair himself.
I believed our going in was utterly wrong from the get go, but once we'd taken that step and opened the Pandora's Box that is Iraq, it was our duty to defend it and its population from
- The insurgents/factions that were guaranteed to come about
- Western business interests that were also guaranteed to descend and feed on the carcass of that beleaguered nation
In my humble opinion we have failed in fulfilling both those responsibilities.
So as we leave, do we do so with even the slightest hint of shame? No, we insult both our own troops and the local Iraqis who supported us in our hubris and folly; provided of course they assisted us for a full year, because everybody knows, you don't get called a collaborator and shot dead in the street until you've served a full 365 days.
Find out more about the deal for the Iraqis who helped us in this Times article
And now they've got their eyes on Iran... What the hell is the end game? Hell itself?
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Labels: 25% council tax discount, British Armed forces, caricature, cartoon, Defence, George Bush, Gorgon Brown, humour, invasion, Iraq, local iraqi staff, Saddam Hussain, satire, Tony Blair, troop withdrawal
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Thursday, 11 October 2007 posted by Paul Toner at 05:41
Troop withdrawal from Iraq
Yeah, it's great that some more of our boys are coming home, but what the hell are they leaving behind?. The reasons we were given for the invasion were bogus and suspect from the off, and even now when they're coming home we're yet to be given a credible explanation. Brown is the last person to expect that from.
I'm stuck, so help me out. We had no business there; certainly not for the reasons we were offered. We should leave Iraq to determine its own future, but having done what we have, are we abandoning Iraq or cutting loose before we make things worse? Or God forbid, buggering off because the yanks have already had all the 'good stuff'?
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Labels: bogus, British Armed forces, caricature, cartoon, Defence, Gordon Brown, invasion, Iraq, troop withrawal
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Wednesday, 3 October 2007 posted by Paul Toner at 02:58
How stupid does David Miliband think we are?
Yesterday at Labour's annual conference in Bournemouth, the foreign secretary David Miliband talked about winning the peace in Iraq. Did I miss something, because I don’t recall seeing an end to the war.
Just because the people killing our troops and innocent Iraqi civilians no longer wear uniforms doesn’t stop it being a war.
We sent our boys into Iraq masked by a smoke screen of half truths, erroneous assumptions and spin... why would we expect the way we withdraw them be any different?
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When we withdraw, will we be leaving things better than when we found them in Iraq? I wonder how many returning troops would like to tell Gordon Brown to stick his 25% council tax discount somewhere dark and warm and instead be told the real reason they had to watch friends and comrades die.
Labels: 25% council tax discount, Bournemouth, British Armed forces, cartoon, David Miliband, Defence, foreign secretary, Gordon Brown, Iraq, Labour Party conference, troop withdrawal, winning the peace
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 posted by Paul Toner at 23:56
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