Burchill goes ballistic ...

[Carl Remick]

[... soaring in a high arc, far beyond parody]

Silly show-offs against Saddam!

Julie Burchill
Saturday March 1, 2003
The Guardian

Working on the law of averages, I'm sure that there must have been a whole 
lot of decent, intelligent people among the three-quarters of a million 
souls who marched in favour of the unchallenged continuation of Saddam 
Hussein's reign of terror over the people of Iraq the other weekend. Though, 
as ever, Christopher Hitchens pretty much hit the nail on the head when he 
summed it up as "the silly... led by the sinister".

But leave aside the Jew-haters and amputation-enthusiasts, and the soppy 
saps who wheeled out toddlers clutching Thomas the Tank Engine says no to 
war! banners. (Of course, Thomas won't be saying No To War when the oil runs 
out and he's out of a frigging job - he'll be saying Bomb the bastard, now! 
) For me, one strand of marchers was way out in front when it came to 
playing host to those uninvited but gluttonous guests, hypocrisy and 
decadence. It was surreal to see the best part of a million people marching 
in support of denying other people the very freedom they were smugly 
celebrating. ...

<More, much more, at 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,904007,00.html>

Carl



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