Gone to the dogs, but worse, the pond goes to the reptile editorialist ...

This day the Murdochians are in a state of agitation, and naturally the pond was on high loon alert, and sure enough ...

It's a fine point, between a legalised and an illegal genocide - the report conservatively put the number of greyhounds killed over the past 12 years in NSW at up to 68,000 -off to the cannery - or between 50-70% of all dogs bred for racing - but the reptiles of Oz can always find a reliable taxi-driver arm-breaking loon to draw the distinction ...

Meanwhile, the reptiles of Oz were diligently defending their favourite war criminal ...

That's the best they've got? 

If that was the fear, why didn't they invade Saudi Arabia and snuff off at its source the fundamentalist Wahhabism that petro-dollars have funded around the world, instead of of a sideshow petty dictator who peacocked a lot but had the intrinsic credibility of a Gaddafi when it came to the crunch ...

This headline might have better served the point ...

But it seems nothing has been learned, no insight gained, and for confirmation of this strange phenomenon, the infinite capacity of reptiles to maintain delusions, the pond wandered off to the reptile editorial ...

Uh huh. Who'd have thought? So now we're invading North Korea to end the rule of the world's cruellest hereditary dictatorship and enormous strategic threat?

Of course not ... now read on ...

So Isis is all the fault of Obama?

How stupidly insulting the reptiles are, how arrogant, how condescending, and how little they read. Perhaps they should have settled down to this story ...

That's right, that's 2007 and that's the notional Islamic State of Iraq ... and then ISIS came along to attempt to finish the job al-Qaida and displaced Sunni fundamentalists had started ... and there's more in that story at the Graudian here ...

If you get to the end of it, you find ...

Giles Paxman, deputy head of mission at the British embassy in Paris, discussed UK thinking on post-Saddam Iraq with two senior French officials on 16 October 2002. One official was reported to have commented that he “feared that the removal of Saddam would lead to general anarchy in Iraq with attacks on Ba’ath party symbols, settling of accounts and widespread violence as in Albania.” 
In December that year Simon Fraser, the Foreign Office’s director for strategy and innovation, reported that a French interlocutor had “argued that we needed to think carefully about the potential for political disintegration in Iraq after a war. There could be many unforeseen consequences including political instability motivated by revenge. We should not let the optimistic scenarios blind us to the potential problems. 
Voices in the Foreign Office concurred. A memo dated January 2003 warned: “All the evidence from the region suggests that coalition forces will not be seen as liberators for long, if at all. Our motives are regarded with huge suspicion. The Iraqis, including those in exile, (and the Arabs more generally) want us gone quickly. Our occupation and administration of Iraq will become more unpopular and its lawfulness more debatable the longer it continues.”

And so on. So much for Obama, so much for the reptile delusions ...

Time for a Pope cartoon ... and more Pope here ...

That's given the pond the strength to finish off the reptile litany of lies and fraudulent posturing, up there with the original stupidity that produced a useless war and made the world a far less secure place (and what have they done about fundamentalist Wahhabism? Zip, nada, nihil, unless you count making it stronger a form of doing something) ...

He took the wrong decision, for the most pathetic, deluded and miss-informed reasons, and that's the reason he and the reptiles don't want a similar inquiry here.

They don't want their noses rubbed in their folly ...

Well it just so happens there was a support movie with that old Aussie show ...

"I Am a Criminal" ... that works for the pond ...

Now where's that poster for that other old movie, "We reptiles are war criminals too ..."