Whether it is in the name of Huitzilopochtli, Jesus, Jehovah, or Mohammed, theocracies have been some of the most oppressive and reactionary States this world has ever known. Killing your citizens is an act of cowardice. Doing so in the name of religion is irreligious.
It doesn’t matter whether you are an elected politician or a shitbag terrorist. You don’t get to bomb densely packed civilian areas or fire rockets into towns without answering to charges of war crimes.
So apparently the claim in the September 2002 dossier that Iraq could use WMD within 45 minutes of Saddam’s order
“There was absolutely no conscious intention to manipulate the language or to obfuscate or to create a misunderstanding as to what this might refer to.”
besides as everyone now knows the claim was made by an unimpeachable sourceMysteron Agent taxi cab driver #007-THRUSH.
Naturally they have fucked it up from the start. This isn’t designed to be a card for some white middle class lass, oh no. This is a card specifically designed for someone with black skin, more than likely male, and with a name akin to Mohammed or Ishmael.
Three years ago I was listening to a speaker from Zimbabwe at a meeting of the local cities International Friendship Group. The Speaker was prepared to talk about the Zimbabwe landscape and people, but not the political situation as they were in fear of reprisals from the Zimbabwe Security Forces.