Feedback | 26 July 2003

Comment on No flies on Bush by Mark Steyn (19/07/2003)

I read Mark Steyn’s article on the harmlessness of the lies told by the USA and the UK on the world stage and tried to be reassured by his joviality. After all, I thought, what’s a few thousand dead people when, as your poll showed, the people ‘liberated’ by us, know that we are really after their oil. Who else is going to notice a few lies (about Saddam Hussein’s links to al-Qaida, promises that Iraqi oil money is controlled by Iraqis and the creation of democracy (shouldn’t this happen before the country is privatised?) except mad anti-war activists and world public opinion?
Huw Peach

I see nothing clever in what Mark Steyn calls Bush’s flypaper strategy of attracting Islamonutters into Iraq to be picked off by the United States forces and thereby diverted from a more deadly activity like blowing up the Golden Gate Bridge.