WHO'S SORRY NOW?

This is shocking news.

It appears that the entire lay leadership of the Anglican church in Iraq is missing and feared dead after being attacked on a dangerous road west of Baghdad. The five Anglican Iraqis were last heard from on 13 September when they reported they had already being attacked travelling on road between Ramadi and Falluja. Church officials had kept silent about the matter while US forces did checks, but there has been no sign of them. The Anglicans were returning from a trip to Jordan when they disappeared.

Now then, our good friends at the Church of England were proposing to issue a global apology to Muslims for all the annoyance that our pesky liberation of the Saddamite tyranny has caused them. Given that those who share the Anglican view have apparantly massacred these poor Iraqi Anglicans, will the Church of England clerics now DEMAND AN APOLOGY from the Muslim world? What's YOUR guess?

Comments

[Poosh]

No! Insurgent activity in Iraq exists as a direct response to America and the UK's illegal foreign policy adventures! It has nothing to do with the fact that Insurgents are evil, twisted fanatics who would slit anyone’s throat, including those Muslims who aren’t “fundamental” enough. The reason Islamic insurgents – many of which come from outside Iraq - are killing hundreds of innocent Muslim civilians every month is because they don’t want foreigners telling the Iraqi people what to do… and what the Iraqi people should clearly be doing, of their own accord, is, obviously – BLOWING THEMSELVES UP. Obviously. These Christians have no place in Iraq given their opposition to suicide, what business do you have in Iraq if you’re not gonna blow yourself up? Eh?

You westerners have no right ruining the status quo. You went and removed a regime that brutally tortured, mutilated and executed innocent civilians and now you’re trying to remove those who wish to install a brand new regime which will continue the previous work of brutally torturing, mutilating and executing innocent civilians.

This just won’t do at all.

We demand that all these American and British soldiers – who will not leave until we stop killing everyone who we disagree with – leave Iraq immediately! Then everything will be fine and the chaos in Iraq will stop and we can get back to our policy of BLOWING UP everyone whom we disagree with, plus the brutal torturing, mutilating and executing. So please end your illegal occupation so that we can get busy with our social engineering agenda. Thankyou-please.

[Poosh]

I hope these Islamic Terroirsts meet a brutal end at the hands of the allied forces present in Iraq.

[ed]

The thing that strikes me about the Anglican leadership is that it just can't comprehend the fact that there are people arund the world who care enough about their faith to endanger themselves. Ditto those who believe despite affliction and poverty. Thus they pay them almost no attention compared to the lavish attention they give to ishooos that occupy the media spotlight. Very, very sad.

[ed]

I agree with Poosh about the fate of the killers. Live by the sword.... and so on...

[Colm]

Poosh , you seem to accept no criticism of the situation in Iraq as if the Bush administration has behaved perfectly. It is clearly obvious that beyond the initial military resource required to defeat Saddam no real though had been given to the responsibilities placed on the US/UK coalition to administer Iraq afterwards, that is what i criticise not necessarily the decision to depose Saddam which i am not principally opposed to.

Caricature me as a lefty liberal if you want but you are wrong. I am not so one tracked in my political beliefs.

[Poosh]

I do NOT accept that critcism. I accept that apart for the fact that shit-happens, the Bush admin have made bad calls and not carried out things perfectly (of course it is impossible for things to go perfectly). I DO reject the idea that nothing was planned for. A huge amount of things have gone right the media simply makes a point of NOT reporting them. A great deal of rebuilding has gone ahead. Schools, Hospitals, Power. The BULK of Iraq is fine, of course that is no excuse for the hot-spots being in such terrible conditions but things take time. I have criticised the British method of controling Basra etc and the lack of counter-propaganda from the allied forces. Iraq is well on the way to becoming modern and democractic however and in a decade or two things we will see a true demoracy. No one who advocated war thought that Iraq would become a demoracay over night - those who say that's what we believe are doing something called LYING. Democracy is hard and bloody and I've said it many a time, Britain herself was not a demoracy until the 1920s - that's how hard it is. And hard things are worth it.

[Jo]

This is a terrible act and shows the rampant evil which the forces of good are facing.

The onus remains with us to show that we are better and stronger than mass-murderers, whatever uniform they do or do not wear.

[Colm]

Poosh

I would love to have the faith that you do that Iraq is well on it's way to becoming a democracy, but I don't. I think it will split into ethnic and religous fiefdoms, controlled according to tribal religous dictat without multi-political dissent permitted or sectarian mixing. Much of the south is likely to become little more than a satelllite under effective Iranian control.