The view from Orléans

Some establishment figures have unfairly accused me of anti British bashing. Well, I ask you, how about this quote from the establishment's own rag. “Tony Blair faced fierce criticism …………. for failing to attend the first full-scale debate on Iraq for nearly three years.” Now would I ever suggest that a country, even with limited democracy, would wait 3 years to debate in its national assembly, a war in which it was killing thousands upon thousands of innocent people? Would I ever suggest that any leader anywhere, however mercenary, would be so consumed by his commercial activities as to not even attend the debate? I would never suggest anywhere that such a thing could possibly happen. It is just too far fetched to believe that the worst banana republic behaves in this manner. Who finally are the Brit bashers, the establishment’s own journal, that prints unwarranted criticism of the country.