As Requested!!

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Back by popular demand, (well, a certain person on here yesterday was requesting its whereabouts), here is today's Littlejohn. Remember, Littlejohn's views don't necessarily represent those of the poster - but he invariably comes close!!...

 

 

THE fat lady hasn’t sung yet but she’s backstage warming up, clearing her throat and going through the scales.

 

While the final act has yet to be played out and perils lie ahead, it’s not too soon to review the performance so far.

 

By any standards, the achievements have been breathtaking.

 

Coalition forces now control virtually all of a country the size of France after just three short weeks.

 

While we don’t yet know the number of Iraqi troops killed, Allied casualties have been light.

 

Although there have been civilians killed, the hundreds of thousands of deaths predicted by the doom-mongers have not materialised.

 

The Dresden-style bombing, the razing of cities, the slaughter of the innocents have all been conspicuous by their absence.

 

Indeed, it’s probably fair to say more civilians have been murdered by Saddam’s henchmen since this war started than by stray Allied fire.

 

Are the hysterical opponents of this war chastened? Do they accept that their wildest forecasts have been discredited?

 

Not a bit.

 

In fact, there’s a sense that some of them are disappointed that there’s been no bloodbath.

 

They’d rather tens of thousands more British, American and Iraqis had died if it proved them right.

 

Shamefully, there are plenty of people in this country who would cheerfully have seen the roadside littered with the corpses of Coalition soldiers.

 

For them, every dead baby would have represented a small victory, a vindication of Not In My Name.

 

These are the same people who would rather you died on an NHS waiting list than paid for private treatment.

 

They were willing to let the Iraqi people go on suffering under a brutal tyrant and a vicious regime rather than side with America.

 

When the liberating forces weren’t initially welcomed by garland-waving crowds, they were delighted.

 

They didn’t stop to wonder why ordinary Iraqis might be reticent and wanted to be certain the rule of their oppressors was finally over before dancing in the streets.

 

With the same relish, they fastened on to every minor setback for the Allied forces.

 

A week ago, we were being told that the Coalition was “bogged down” and would meet fierce resistance from the “elite” Republican Guard and the “special” Republican Guard.

 

Now, we can’t be sure exactly what happened on the battlefield but if there had been “fierce resistance” on a large scale the BBC and the Arab stations would have been trumpeting it round the clock.

 

My own guess is that the first division of the Republican Guard to come into contact with the Coalition was battered to smithereens and the rest did a runner.

 

The battles for Basra and Baghdad were going to be a rerun of Berlin and Stalingrad.

 

Er, not exactly.

 

Having patiently subdued what resistance there was, British and American troops are pretty much free to come and go as they please.

 

My favourite moment of the war so far was the rooftop press conference given by the Iraqi information minister in downtown Baghdad, in which he claimed everything was going swimmingly and the invaders had been repulsed.

 

It might have been more convincing had an American tank not been clearly visible over his shoulder in the car park next door.

 

After getting everything else wrong, the merchants of doom now inform us that we’re going to face the mother of all battles once our forces get to the Old City.

 

If the “elite” and “special” Republican Guards, of whom we were told numbered the thick end of half a million before the war, have all retreated to the Old City they must be standing 50 to a room.

 

If they’ve all disappeared underground, the escape tunnels out of Baghdad must look like Holborn Tube station at rush hour.

 

This isn’t to be flippant or even complacent.

 

Just to point out that the Not In My Name crowd and the Starbucks Strategists have got it hopelessly, ridiculously wrong.

 

This isn’t another Vietnam. It’s not another Suez.

 

They were wrong about Afghanistan — remember, the Americans were going to be involved in guerilla war there for years to come.

 

Now they’re wrong about Iraq.

 

We still don’t know what may be in store, but we can be confident victory is assured.

 

Bring on the fat lady.

 

 

www.thesun.co.uk

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

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THE fat lady hasn’t sung yet

Does he start all his articles like this?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

No.

 

 

[Rob_the_Saint]

Call me over-cautious, but I think it's a little early to be banging the drum just yet; there could be one or two nasty surprises still in store for the coalition before this is laid to rest.

[Northern Monkey]

you mean like the reports of suspected mustard gas use?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Impossible, cynic. Iraq don't have any chemical weapons. But what's this?...

 

US forces in Iraq have found suspected chemical weapons, the Pentagon has said. Preliminary tests on substances found at a military training camp in central Iraq suggest they contain several banned weapons, including nerve agents, military officials said. Samples are now expected to be taken to the US for further tests.

 

Blimey! Maybe they did have them all along!

 

 

[Northern Monkey]

it's a fit up!

[Colin Zeal EFM]

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[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

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US forces in Iraq have found suspected chemical weapons, the Pentagon has said. Preliminary tests on substances found at a military training camp in central Iraq suggest they contain several banned weapons, including nerve agents, military officials said. Samples are now expected to be taken to the US for further tests.

Like that warehouse they found on about day 2 which we've heard nothing else about - Why? because it wasn't
Like the lab with all the chemical masks in and chemical weapons antidodes, which again we've heard nothing else about although the pentigon have admitted that they may just be there in case of a chemical attack on Iraq.

We should keep breast of the word suspected lets' wait and see - innocent until proven guilty and all that!

[Northern Monkey]

I agree like the pentagon announcement "Saddam is dead" changes to "we think he may be dead", to "well we think we hit the building he was in" , to "F*#k me missed again! we actually bombed downing street"

[AFF]

Hi Zealster.

 

Littlejohn's ravings have always been on the edge. It looks like he's finally lost it.

 

How can you read that stuff and give him any credibility?

 

Oh, by the way. You might like to check the situation in Afghanistan. Littlejohn clearly hasn't.

 

And another thing. The members of the Republican Guard who he thinks have "done a runner". I wonder where they have gone. Hung up their Weapons of Mass Distraction, turned from a life of terror, and looking for a job weaving carpets, I expect.

[GHA EFM]

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US forces in Iraq have found suspected chemical weapons, the Pentagon has said. Preliminary tests on substances found at a military training camp in central Iraq suggest they contain several banned weapons, including nerve agents, military officials said. Samples are now expected to be taken to the US for further tests.

I heard something about this yesterday. From memory, 3 tests had been carried out on the stuff. 2 tests had come back as positive, but 1 had come back negative. More tests were to be done. Is that what you are talking about Zeal?

[Northern Monkey]

I wonder if it is nandrolone that is negative