“You Know It Makes Sense”

The unstoppable Terry Jones of Monty Python fame lets Blair/Bush have it in his Gaurdian editorial today. Jones comments on the recent report that rates of malnutrition for Iraqi children have doubled since the U.S.-led invasion. Jones writes of George W. Bush's plan to help the children of Iraq: [H]e hit on the idea of bombing them instead [of imposing sanctions]. And not just bombing, but capturing and torturing their fathers, humiliating their mothers, shooting at them from road blocks - but none of it seems to do any good. Iraqi children simply refuse to be better nourished, healthier and less inclined to die. It is truly baffling. And this is why we at the department are appealing to you - the general public - for ideas. If you can think of any other military techniques that we have so far failed to apply to the children of Iraq, please let us know as a matter of urgency. We assure you that, under our present leadership, there is no limit to the amount of money we are prepared to invest in a military solution to the problems of Iraqi children. (The viewpoint Terry Jones wrote on homeland security in In These Times last summer is still apt.)