Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died
That's one less war criminal in the world. She's the one that bucked-up George Bush the First on the initial foray in the 20-year-old murder spree that was and is Iraq, you know. I'm sure Argentines and British coal workers have different memories of Maggie.
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"Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s reshaper, dies at 87" by Mark Feeney | Globe Staff, April 09, 2013
In a statement, President Obama praised Lady Thatcher for showing “our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered.” He added that the “world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend.”
Prime Minister David Cameron, who cut short a diplomatic visit to Spain and France after learning of Lady Thatcher’s death, said that “she didn’t just lead our country; she saved our country. And I believe she’ll go down as the greatest British peacetime prime minister.”
Except there wasn't peace. There was the Falklands, Ireland, and then Iraq (she had been dumped by the party by the time Bush the First initiated hostilities; however, she is known for having bucked him up in Colorado).
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"Even Margaret Thatcher’s foes testify to her strength" by Anthony Faiola | Washington Post, April 09, 2013
LONDON — Even some on the left — who consider Thatcher the bane of the common man, a leader bent on destroying the welfare state — acknowledged the loss of a woman credited with creating the modern British state....
Yeah, you see how happy they are over there?
Henry A. Kissinger, the former US secretary of state, said Thatcher was a ‘‘great leader’’ and a ‘‘good friend of the United States.’’
Amazing that that old fossil of a war criminal is still spewing. Must be getting transplanted organs from Palestinians on a regular basis.
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Yup, only the good die young.
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The Irish education of Maggie Thatcher
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UPDATE: Annette Funicello, Mouseketeer and actress, dies
She seemed a bit softer from what I remember.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Annette Funicello, 70; beloved Mouseketeer enthralled baby boomers
And while we are there:
"Martyl Langsdorf, 96; artist behind the Doomsday Clock" by Matt Schudel | Washington Post, April 09, 2013
WASHINGTON — Martyl Langsdorf, an artist who designed one of the most enduring visual images of the 20th century, the Doomsday Clock, with its hands ticking toward midnight as a symbol of impending nuclear destruction, died March 26 at a rehabilitation facility in Schaumburg, Ill. She was 96....
During World War II, nuclear physicist Alexander Langsdorf, Mrs. Langsdorf’s husband, had helped develop the atomic bomb as a member of the Manhattan Project. After bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, leading to the end of the war, he began to have misgivings....
Enabling the two greatest individual war crimes of all human history will do that to a person.
Mrs. Langsdorf’s simple visual image entered pop iconography as an element in songs by the Who, Iron Maiden, and Bright Eyes.
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It was featured in novels and nonfiction books and became a near-universal symbol of the dangers lurking in the modern world....
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"To those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction."
You see who said that?
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She just missed the bells ringing judging by the over-the-top and outlandish war rhetoric coming from my newspaper everyday regarding Korea, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, the Middle East, terrorists, and on and on.
In fact, damn near everything is framed as a war.
