I've not been in a great mood for the last 24 hours. In fact i'll level and say i've been a foul mood.
My ankle has been shitted up severely and i'm majorly worrying about other stuff. If you leave a comment and say 'wrong time of the month?' or 'calm down dear' the way people always do on womens blogs when they pen a rant, please don't bother coming back.
My frame of mind has been made slightly worse by my mum calling me up and asking if i read the papers today. Of all the people in my family, i most closely relate to my mother on being passionate about politics, feminist type things and - this country.
She will call me and tell me all about the latest piece of shit news. And worse than that tonight i wound up agreeing with her that we shouldn't be in Iraq and we shouldn't be in Afghanistan.
Fuck it all to hell and back.
This piece will indulge my full fury on an issue that constantly bugs me and which has reared its ugly head and made me feel thoroughly fucking vindicated.
I am sick and tired of people pissing all over this country I live in.
But not once in my life have I been so singularly angry as when I watched in horror last year as the Iran sailors incident hit the headlines day in day out. It illicited every WANKER out there to come out in full Anglophobic rant mode about how CRAP this country is and OH-MY-GOD the British Navy, 'the rulers of the waves', reduced to a pathetic mess (big gasps!!) in one fell swoop apparently - curiously defined by one incident and one boat load of kids. .
There has to be a good reason for keeping a level head and not blindly starting a full scale war because you feel like being giant hard ons. (Maybe because you are in the wrong for example~??)
The latter seemed to be the single most prescient reason most of the blowhards out there could muster for putting the boot in well and truly on this incident.
Whilst annoying and subsequently embarrassing with the sailors stories, largely because it was milked to heaven and back, the thing i noticed most was the utter utter fucking determination to hand a PR victory on a plate to the Iranians.
Maybe it's because that's my job - PR. I know that companies would shit bricks to garner the kind of hyperventilating BULLSHIT that generates a skewed perspective and sells you up the river. 'Iran Inc.' made a mint but not because of the screw up in the water that day.
It's emerged today that the “US LED coalition” screwed up – that the boundaries in those waters were redrawn jointly by the US and British and noone bothered to tell the Iranians. Not that I give a crap about their concerns. I just don’t fancy what would have been the outcome.
At 8.43am local time, as a suspicious merchant vessel was boarded by the British, the inspection party sent the message: “That’s Blue Team embarking”. At 9.04am comes the first sign of trouble. The crew say: “We have cowboys rpt cowboys beside us”.
A minute later, they plead for air cover: “Can we have helo over ASAP?” HMS Cornwall replies: “Can you let us know what they are doing? Are they in Iraqi territorial waters?” The reply comes: “Yes”.
The narrative resumes: “The crew of the MV Hanin became agitated and the captain told the boarding party that he did not want them to leave as he was fearful of Iranian reprisals.
“At this point OCRM [the senior Royal Marine] ordered all his personnel to make their weapons ready and for the [RIBs] to come alongside to extract the teams.
“As the party was descending the ladders, two Iranian gunboats came alongside and blocked in the RIBs. [Redacted] The initial posture of the Iranian personnel was friendly and the IRGCN [Revolutionary Guards Navy] Captain shook hands with OCRM and told him he was in Iranian waters, which OCRM refuted.
In other words noone, least of all the people whose lives were at risk, knew what the fuck the legality of the situation was thanks to COALITION fudging, vagueries and arrogance on the issue. Brav-fucking-o.
The British raised their weapons first (eg they weren't the spineless dicks that everyone said they were). The Coalition had carried out 66 boardings in four weeks so it appears this was viewed as a provocative act. Iranians when questioned told the British the waters were Iranian and responded in kind. We were then outgunned but hardly in a position to start WW3 given the boundary fudging efforts by the US and British chain of command.
The subsequent situation called for a deft bit of diplomacy in extracting those sailors which is PRECISELY what Tony Blair managed. It was a MASTERCLASS in diplomacy and bluff as well it should be. Had we lumbered in there and started world war three and it had emerged a war was started in the wrong I can only begin to imagine the fall out. Not to mention the enormous catasphophe of starting a war with the one in Iraq still tittering on the brink of fiasco.
Unlike some fuckers out there I try to believe that a war even if hand-on-heart realistically started for 9/11 payback, HAD to have some outcome that was better than merely a disaster – at least in a fledgling democracy and re-established American military supremacy.
The amount of bullshit I read on numerous US blogs and any British blog that likes to pander to the same audience on that incident. It was almost as if they were dying for a chance to pummel the Brits into the ground.
You can of course rely on the British press to milk the story – for decades they have enjoyed hating on Britain, so there was ample to feed from.
So fuck you very much Mr Bolton. Wanker, former US ambassador to the United Nations and Simpsons neighbour lookalike who said President Ahmadinejad was the clear winner and had been strengthened in his pursuit of nuclear weapons. He also trotted out a string of Brit hating bull about the response that he expected. You and YOURS, and I include the upper echelons of the MOD (whose real input on decisions with the Americans is questionable), created that PR coup.
The sailors in that ONE boat remain a wincing embarrassment but they have never outweighed the bravery of British troops who go hugely unmentioned on US blogs.
NOT ONCE have i seen a US blog heap praise on the actions of our men standing alongside them in this stupid fucked up set of wars harking all the way back to the cold war era when the Taliban were 'friends'. Not once. All the blogs who bitch and moan about the BBC's crap US-phobic attitude enjoyed this and were quick out the gate to shit all over us from a great height.
Fuck you all, you malicious cunts
What with that and Drudge i have to wonder do we want to win the propaganda war with the people who attack us or not? Why the fuck are we in Iraq and Afghanistan again?
I don't really feel the need to celebrate St Georges Day. I think celebrate your identity days are a bit banal. 
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