Airstrip One

Saddam gets it wrong again

Saddam Hussein is an admirer of Churchill? I'm sure that any self respecting Iraqi nationalist would give much time to a man who pushed for poison gas over the Tigris, but we digress.

Saddam like's Churchill, according to gorgeous George Galloway, because of his independent stance from America.

His what?

Churchill, and it is pertinent to point out his American ancestory here, was slavish in his devotion to America. It could well be argued that this was a result of the dire situation in Britain in 1940, and we did need every friend we could get (who got us there, we digress again). His devotion to the British Empire and the Free Market were sacrificed to Roosevelt's United Nations and Marshall Plan. Churchill agitated for the Cold War, not in his native land but in his mother's. His History of the English Speaking Peoples is gloriously well-written mystical Anglospheric nonsense.

The Anglosphere cult get an awful lot wrong, but they are right to put Churchill as their idol. He was surely one of them.