ok, that's enough. sack these fucktards.
Idiots. Fucking idiots.

Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was equally forthright, saying people who blamed the country's foreign policy for the terrorism threat were making "the gravest possible error."

"This is part of a distorted view of the world, a distorted view of life. Let's put the blame where it belongs: with people who wantonly want to take innocent lives," she said.

Yeah, because the terrorists are just waking up in the morning and saying 'Hey! I want to take some innocent lives! For absolutely no reason! And if I record a video explaining how come what I'm doing is directly related to UK foreign policy, don't believe me! It's just a wanton act of mass murder with no message at all!'

This is not about blaming the Government for terrorism.

This is about blaming the Government for morally outrageous foreign policy decisions. Some react to that with protest, some with silent anger, some with acceptance, some with complicity, and some don't bother to take notice. Some react by blowing themselves, and others, up. But that latter reaction, indefensible as it is, does NOT mean that the policy itself is not grievously wrong.

Terrorists are committing acts of terrorism because of UK and American foreign policy. They have SAID so. REPEATEDLY. That does not mean that UK and American foreign policy causes terrorism. Nor does it mean that UK or American politicians should alter foreign policy just because the terrorists would like them to. But sweet fucking Jesus, it stands to reason that a policy that alienates, pisses off, outrages and bereaves a whole load of people should be recognised as such.

The fact of some people being so outraged that they turn terrorist does NOT lend any moral authority to the policy, and there's a strong sense from Downing Street that it does - that clinging to foreign policy in the face of 'terrorism' somehow makes that policy right.