Kurt Nimmo | September 19 2005

If we are to believe Lance Price, the former deputy head of Downing Street communications and BBC journalist, Tony Blair got off on “his first blooding as PM,” that is to say he liked the idea of sending British soldiers to die horrible deaths in the nightmarish cauldron of Iraq. “I couldn’t help feeling TB was relishing his first blooding as PM, sending the boys into action. Despite all the necessary stuff about taking action ‘with a heavy heart’, I think he feels it is part of his coming of age as a leader,” writes Price in The Spin Doctor’s Diary, a book subsequently censored by the British government, although uncensored excerpts appeared in the Mail on Sunday, according to the UK Telegraph.

If Price’s account is true—and considering Blair’s disgusting swagger and arrogance, there is no reason to believe otherwise—what we have here is a chilling snapshot of a sadistic authoritarian character. Bush, of course, suffers from a likewise mental illness, indifferent to nearly 2,000 dead American soldiers (the number is probably much higher), possibly well over 100,000 Iraqis, and—Bush’s several days late wooden public relations histrionics aside—the as of yet undetermined dead, missing, and displaced of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

As if Blair’s zeal over grisly carnage was not enough, Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, tells us people who want to prosecute Ariel Sharon for war crimes are troublemakers. As Straw sees it, when a war criminal is elevated to the office of prime minister through the idiocy of the people who vote for him, he is no longer responsible for killing people. Sharon, Reuters reports Straw as remarking “is a serving prime minister in a very different capacity from somebody who had retired from the Israeli army.” Of course, as prime minister, Sharon is responsible for killing far more Palestinians than he was as a defense minister, but this fact seems to escape Mr. Straw, who likely believes it is the birthright of elected leaders to kill as many people as they want and not be held responsible—not legally or morally.

Sharon is afraid to travel to Britain for fear of arrest over the role he played in the 1982 Lebanon War (or rather Israeli invasion of Lebanon) when he provided logistical support to the Lebanese Maronite Phalange (or fascist) militia and ordered his troops to guard the entrances of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, where the Phalange militia set about slaughtering around 3,500 Palestinian civilians. The Israeli Kahan Commission found Sharon responsible and recommended he be removed from office. On June 18, 2001, relatives of the victims of the Sabra massacre began proceedings in Belgium to have Ariel Sharon indicted on war crimes charges, but a Brussels Appeals Court rejected the lawsuit because the law was subsequently changed to disallow such lawsuits unless a Belgian citizen is involved, according to Wikipedia.

Sharon, Blair, Bush—it is nothing short of amazing these sadistic and authoritarian characters are repeatedly elected (or installed) to office. “You give impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you,” Wilhelm Reich wrote of the people who elect such monsters. “Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded. You must come to realize that you make your little men your own oppressors, and that you made martyrs out of your truly great men.” Reich, who escaped Nazi Germany, was embittered over the human condition, but his words contain a kernel of truth: humanity will continue to suffer the ravages of war and pay the ultimate price (with their treasure and lives) until they come to realize government is invariably run by men with “evil intentions” who “defraud” the people and use them as cannon fodder in never ending wars designed to benefit a small plutocratic elite represented by sadistic authoritarians such as Tony Blair and George W. Bush.

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