THE TRANSATLANTIC 'SPECIAL' RELATIONSHIP

After the success of the 2006 film 'The Queen' in which Helen Mirren portrayed the reaction of the real Queen to Princess Diana's death, the latter invited the former to dinner at Buckingham. The actor declined, citing shooting commitments in the USA. Tabloids reported the real Queen's displeasure as something along the lines of "Who does this bitch think she is"?

The real Queen found solace from this snub - intended or not - by promptly visiting the White House of Bush II - valiant conqueror of the defenseless Iraq - and in a 'gala' dinner toasting the special transatlantic relationship noted that: "It is the moment to take stock of our present friendship, rightly taking pleasure from its strengths, while never taking these for granted. And it is the time to look forward, jointly renewing our commitment to a more prosperous, safer and freer world".

Here are some of the countries where the American-British 'commitment' for prosperity, security and freedom in the world has paid rich dividends (literally - for the weapons-manufacturers of these and other countries):

1. Iraq after 2003 invasion/occupation - 5 million people displaced and turned into refugees; 700,000 or more killed; infrastructure damage exceeding $1 trillion.

2. Turkey - 1997 recipient of US weapons aid used to displace millions of Kurdish people and kill and torture tens of thousands.

3. Colombia - 1999 recipient of $290 million in weapons aid, because it is the leading human rights violator in the Western hemisphere - used to displace 2.7 million people and kill and terrorize thousands.

4. East Timor - 1999 military & diplomatic aid by US/UK to Indonesia was used to kill 200,000 people, displace hundreds of thousands more, and destroy the tiny nation.

5. Kosovo - US-UK led 'NATO' bombing calculated to teach Milosevic that NATO was the boss in Europe, provoked the crimes that Serbian dictator Milosevic was later convicted of. Like Afghanistan, this nation too was abandoned after a few years by the West, encouraging the development of a Taliban-clone in Europe, taking advantage of the population's misery.

6. Afghanistan - the radicalization of this nation by the Taliban, armed by the weapons and missiles the CIA left there after the Soviets departed, and then destroyed in a criminal assault on it by the US after 911.

A truly impressive record of the achievements of the great American and British nations in making the world freer, safer, more prosperous and democratic. Naturally the brilliant parrots of the Western media and academy, trained at Harvard, Oxford and all the other elite institutions, praise these accomplishments as 'noble', 'altruistic', and 'humanitarian'.

Bravo to Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada, for setting the record straight!