Speaking of treason, one Neil Clark, writing in The Guardian, is trying to hijack a Norwegian word we are not bloody proud of, but I still think it's my duty to deny him the right to using it.
The word is Quisling, named after our infamous low-life scum Nazi who collaborated with the occupying Germans and acted as prime minister of Norway during World War II. We shot him after the war. Clark is comparing every opponent of Saddamism or al-Qaedaism in Iraq to this arch-traitor. These were people who fought and died to have the despotism scourge extinguished until the US and Britain stepped in to help them (much as the same allies eventually freed Norway in 1945) .
A group of pro-war bloggers is playing a prominent role in a campaign to grant asylum to Iraqis who have been working as translators for the British forces in Iraq. Not all who back the campaign were in favour of the war, but some of its most strident supporters are.
Harry's Place, the favourite watering hole of the pro-war "left", urges its readers to write to their MPs over the issue. "If government policy has not changed by the time parliament returns from the summer recess, we will need to think about a face-to-face lobbying effort," the site warns.
Other pro-war bloggers are backing the campaign, too, including the arch-hawk Stephen Pollard, who once labelled opponents of the Iraq war as "mindless, deluded or malevolent". And yesterday, the Harry's Place contributor Adam Lebor, via an opinion piece in The Times, offered "advice" to Gordon Brown, exhorting him to overrule the bureaucratic "desk murderers" who would deny the Iraqis rights of entry.
I am very disgusted that such people even exist in Britain. The Tower isn't what it used to be.
I will, however, strongly argue that the Iraqis who have, while risking their lives, aided the British forces in Iraq, surely deserve to be granted asylum in Britain. The country has certainly granted entry to far less deserving people than them.
As for Neil Clark, he is not even prominent enough to deserve to be called a Quisling. He does, however, really deserve to live under the Taliban-like rule he so wishes on the Iraqis.
Corrected: Afghanistan vs Iraq confusion. Yeah I know. Don't blog too late in the evening.
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