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John Pilger's 2003 Predictions Come True

Comment by Larry Ross, December 13, 2006

It's almost 4 years since John Pilger wrote this article, yet all his predictions and observations have come true. Pilger does not shrink from reality, or pretend its not as bad as it may seem. He calls 'a spade a spade'. His article is just as powerful and relevant today as it was in January 2003.  He is so right that  Blair and Bush are cowards who would never fight themselves, but seem to take great satisfaction from exercising their power by ordering young men to go to war and kill, bomb and murder thousands of innocent people. Then they talk about bringing 'freedom and democracy to the Middle East' to cover their genocide.  Pilger's observation that the Bush regime is the "Third Reich of our times' is so very apt today.

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PILGER: BLAIR IS A COWARD

His most damning verdict on Tony Blair

by John Pilger, January 29, 2003

William Russell, the great correspondent who reported the carnage of imperial wars, may have first used the expression "blood on his hands" to describe impeccable politicians who, at a safe distance, order the mass killing of ordinary people.

In my experience "on his hands" applies especially to those modern political leaders who have had no personal experience of war, like George W Bush, who managed not to serve in Vietnam, and the effete Tony Blair.

There is about them the essential cowardice of the man who causes death and suffering not by his own hand but through a chain of command that affirms his "authority".

In 1946 the judges at Nuremberg who tried the Nazi leaders for war crimes left no doubt about what they regarded as the gravest crimes against humanity.

The most serious was unprovoked invasion of a sovereign state that offered no threat to one's homeland. Then there was the murder of civilians, for which responsibility rested with the "highest authority".

Blair is about to commit both these crimes, for which he is being denied even the flimsiest United Nations cover now that the weapons inspectors have found, as one put it, "zilch".

Like those in the dock at Nuremberg, he has no democratic cover.

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