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January 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Quentin Letts
Last updated at 11:47 PM on 24th January 2012
Foreboding: There were eerie similarities between Foreign Secretary William Hague’s statement on Iran, and the one he made about Libya last year
Another winter’s day, another Commons appearance from the Foreign Secretary about potential war in the Middle East.
Just over 11 months ago, on March 7, 2011, William Hague told MPs about troubling events in Libya. There was talk about sanctions, human rights, the desirability of united action under the auspices of the United Nations, the worry about a rogue state spreading unease through the region.
As we now know, things turned pretty bloody for the regime in question.
Yesterday, with eerie similarities, Mr Hague answered a Commons Urgent Question about Iran and threats by that country’s leadership to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which much Western oil is transported. Many of the same personnel who took part in the March 2011 discussion also took part in yesterday’s exchanges. Many of the positions taken were all too familiar. Yesterday’s question was put by Robert Halfon (Con, Harlow), who seems to have a taste for hot talk. Mr Halfon, some of whose family hailed from Libya, was a prominent critic of the Gaddafi government. Yesterday, with regard to Iran, he told the House: ‘No one wants war but tragically it is looking increasingly possible.’ He spoke of the Iranian government as an ‘extremist regime perpetrating aggression abroad’.
In March 2011, Mr Hague said that ‘all options should remain on the table’. Yesterday, when asked if he would use force against Iran, he said that ‘all options are on the table’. Uh-oh.
In March 2011, when urged to set up an escrow account for the Libyan people, Mr Hague spoke of his support for the civilian population of Libya. Yesterday he said that Western powers were alarmed by the actions of Iranian leaders but this was ‘not a quarrel with the Iranian people’.
In March 2011, John Baron (Con, Billericay) rose to his full height and said that we should not meddle ‘in other people’s affairs’. Yesterday Mr Baron was again to be found on his lonely feet, urging the Foreign Office to forge ‘a new relationship with Iran’. Mr Hague sarcastically put Mr Baron in his box last March. He did much the same yesterday, saying that efforts had long been made to become friendly with Iran but they had proved fruitless. As before, he tried to make Mr Baron sound naïve.
This is how it usually starts: a ministerial Statement seeking compliance with international requests; claims of human rights abuses; a bellicose clamour from certain backbenchers; a tendency to pooh-pooh doubting voices as eccentric. It happened with Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. And now Iran? On the basis of what we heard from Mr Hague yesterday, now might not be the time to buy a retirement villa in Tehran.
The other main event of the Commons day was Treasury Questions, the first since Labour’s (alleged) acceptance that deficit-reduction will still prove necessary at the time of the next general election.
Sadly, the Chancellor, George Osborne, was absent yesterday – attending a meeting of European finance ministers, lucky devil. Without him, Labour’s Ed Balls was a darts player deprived of his board, a boxer minus his punchbag.
The session proved muted. Ministers failed to mock Labour’s indecision about cuts. Mr Balls’s sallies sounded half-hearted.
Barristerial Michael Ellis (Con, Northampton N), who addresses the Commons as though it were a murder inquiry, did essay a swipe at the ‘delusional Left’ of Labour but the Labour lot barely stirred. It takes that Osborne magic – that peerless sneer, that uniquely maddening air of superiority – to fire their tinder.
Had the Chancellor been there, he would undoubtedly have teased the Labour Treasury team for its failure to stop Labour peers from voting on Monday for more money for the unemployed.
But Mr Osborne’s place was filled by the Lib Dems’ Danny Alexander, Treasury Chief Secretary, and the Lib Dems’ own peers disgraced themselves in the Lords on Monday. So we heard nothing about that awkwardness.
David Cameron at PMQs today may find it less easy to resist the temptation.
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Like a donkey at a dance, Hague you are implausible, you follow the whims of America as all those who went before you (and after Harrold Wilson). Oh!!! to have a government with a mind of its own and no ring through its nose.
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History has shown us that it is the Americans who start wars. Their arms trade demands a constant stream of “enemies” for them to fight, and of course distracts from events at home. Hague, is merely climbing on the bandwagon!
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Just keep on talking; and keep up the dialogue with Iran. No-one wants to resort to war, unless its imperative and unavoidable.
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Is Vague setting up another handy little war this time with the Ayatollahs to distract from all the other little problems here at home? He should resist the
temptation if Libya is anything to go by – all we’ve done there is replaced a
disliked BUT stable regime with a load of fanatic Muslim nutters who could
prove to be yet another gang of potential terrorists causing world-wide trouble!
+++And three cheers for Carey, for confirming to everyone with a brain what
another load of nutters we’ve now got operating out of Lambeth! We have now
notched-up 1 Trillion pounds in hock and these looneys want to give even more
to everyone who doesn’t contribute but only takes-just as bad as Dave Co.
who tell all the workers They’ve got to tighten their belts, can’t even have a rise
for years – and then go and give all the benefit recipients a 5%-plus rise in Their
incomes, for contributing absolutely nothing at all! Are they really on the side of
all those people who actually work?
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As someone who has spent many years in the Middle East, I look on the turn of events with sadness and incredulity. Any war with Iran will lead to terrible destruction and major unintended consequences. It is mind-blowing that Britain and Europe is being drawn into a situation that is driven by the States and egged on by Israel (proud holder of over 300 nuclear warheads)- again. For nuclear bomb, read weapons of mass destruction. Do we learn nothing from history ( and recent history at that)?
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