Bref Terry's Jones.
Tja. Hér á eftir fer bréf Terrys Jones (úr monty python) til breskra Blaða varðandi stríðið í Írak. ég hef ekkert við málið að bæta nema kannski að þið ættuð að
kjósa hvaða gæludýr ég ætti að fá mér. og ekki kjósa kött, hann yrði bara í kvöldmatinn á mínu heimili.
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I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's
running out of patience. And so am I!
For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives
a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the
health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson
is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to
discover what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's
up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is. As
for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good
sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the
street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off one by
one. Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the
police? But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they need
evidence of a crime with which to charge my neighbours. They'll come up
with endless red tape and quibbling about the rights and wrongs of a
pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr Johnson will be finalising his plans to do terrible things to
me, while Mr Patel will be secretly murdering people. Since I'm the only one
in the street with a decent range of automatic firearms, I reckon it's up
to me to keep the peace. But until recently that's been a little
difficult.
Now, however, George W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do is
run out of patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want! And
let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq is the
only way to bring about international peace and security. The one certain
way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting the US or the
UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have never threatened us.
That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and kill his wife and children.
Strike first!
That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave us in peace and stop peering
at me in that totally unacceptable way.
Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing Iraq is
that Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons of mass
destruction - even if no one can find them. I'm certain I've just as much
justification for killing Mr Johnson's wife and children as Mr Bush has
for bombing Iraq. Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world a safer
place by eliminating 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever
long-term aim because how can you ever know when you've achieved it? How
will Mr Bush know when he's wiped out all terrorists? When every single
terrorist is dead? But then a terrorist is only a terrorist once he's
committed an act of terror. What about would-be terrorists? These are
the ones you really want to eliminate, since most of the known terrorists,
being suicide bombers, have already eliminated themselves. Perhaps Mr
Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a future terrorist?
Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective until every Muslim
fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate Muslims might convert to
fundamentalism. Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr
Bush to eliminate all Muslims? It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and
Mr Patel are just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens of other
people in the street who I don't like and who - quite frankly - look at me in
odd ways. No one will be really safe until I've wiped them all out. My wife
says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm
simply using the same logic as the President of the United States. That
shuts her up. Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a
good enough reason for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to
give the whole street two weeks - no, 10 days - to come out in the open
and hand over all aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws
and interstellar terrorist masterminds, and if they don't hand them over
nicely and say 'Thank you', I'm going to bomb the entire street to
kingdom come. It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in
contrast to what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one street
-Terry Jones.