Charmaine Yoest in London via PowerLine says the many of the Londoners she has interviewed just hours after the terrorist attack on their subway system think the bombings are Tony Blair’s fault:
“I interviewed three very ordinary, normal teenaged English Muslims… All three seem to be parroting Muslim talking points: ‘The bombings were a conspiracy by Blair to generate support for the war,’ they recited in a charming British accent… A young British black woman told me, ‘The bombings are Tony Blair’s fault – they killed a 100 thousand Iraqis – and it’s like a boomerang [coming back at the British].’ Most everyone [in London] I talked to believed that the British caused the bombing or had it coming. Of the dozen or so people I interviewed only white males in business attire expressed surprise that anyone would think the British were at fault. But these gentlemen were the minority. Most felt that the Brits were complicit.”
Yes, the dumbass Left still parrots the utterly ridiculous “100 thousand Iraqis” killed statistic posted by a British medical journal almost two years ago.
GlobalSecurity, a defense analysis firm based in Alexandria, VA, completely discredited the phony 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualty number as early as Fall 2003:

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From Europhobia:

I tell you what, if this is an “Islamic” terrorist attack, they’re doing a piss-poor job. The pubs are all packed out, people sipping their pints happily, all a tad pissed off, but basically fine with it. Nice one, Al Quaeda – you profess to be from a teetotal religion, and you’ve given the pub trade a massive mid-week boost.

Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan who has a lot on British reactions.

So, we’re dealing with people with retarded religious beliefs who think they’ll be rewarded for killing themselves while murdering others. Why aren’t we using those retarded religious beliefs against them? Is it because we’re afraid of offending other Muslims? But shouldn’t other Muslims not care what we do to terrorists since terrorists aren’t practicing real Islam anyway?
Of course, I’m talking about the whole pig thing. Grease guns and bullets with pig fat, feed the corpses of dead terrorists to pigs… that sort of thing. And I ask, what effect do you think this would have? Would it cause more actions out of anger (I don’t care about anger itself unless it leads to actions), or would it actually scare Islamists from dealing with us because, by their wiener beliefs, they’ll not reach they’re wacky orgy or raisin filled paradise? I mean this as a serious question; what would be the reaction?
And here is a hypothetical because I don’t see this one even remotely politically possible: What happens if we bomb Mecca? Just mess it up a little with threats to completely obliterate it later? Would that scare terrorists to stop? I don’t really understand how essential Mecca is to Islam; I know that you can’t blow up anything that would effect Christians in the same way. As long as we have our scripture, we’re good.
If the terrorists really think we’re as bad as they say, wouldn’t we have bombed all the Middle East ages ago? Should we make that point to them publicly? “If we wanted to wipe out all the Middle East, it would be a simple things and there’s nothing you wackos could do to stop us. But we don’t wipe it out since we’re nice people.”
Couple of thoughts (trying to think outside the box). If the first idea was judged to be useful, do you think it would be possible to get support for it in this PC world?
UPDATE: What I wrote are probably making a lot of people think of this.

Sorry to keep being so serious, but I thought I’d share this update on the Torreses:

As of this morning, both mom and baby are doing well. Susan is still holding on and the baby continues to grow and move around a great deal.
The baby is a little smaller than the doctors had originally believed, so they have pushed back the earliest date for delivery to from July 11 to July 18.
The Torres and Rollin families would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming generosity they have received, both in the form of donations and encouraging words. We are still processing the tremendous number of donations that have come in, however we estimate that we have received approximately $300,000 from all over the world. We have all been very touched to see so many kind and helpful people in this world. Thank you to everyone that has helped us come this far and thank you to everyone that has sent us such kind notes.

As I said, I got a call from my brother this morning. He heard of the attacks in London over lunch but didn’t know the extent of them until I told him.
Foo’ is having a good time over there and making good use of his self-taught Arabic. He has a lot of free time, though, and has watched all the episodes of Firefly over and over.
Recently, a building he was in was targeted by insurgents, with mortars hitting all around him. He said he just put on his helmet and went back to bed. I guess there’s no reason to get riled up every time someone is trying to kill you.
He says a lot of the insurgents are Sunnis, but those doing the suicide bombs to kill Iraqis are foreigners. A lot of attacks aren’t motivated by ideology, either. Fallujah is messed up pretty bad, and a lot of people will do anything for money, including setting bombs or taking some shots at troops.
From talking to Iraqis and those training Iraqis, Foo’ thinks we’ll be in Iraq for a number of more years.
Anyway, keep Sgt. Joe foo’ USMC in your prayers.

Got the flag from here (thanks to basil for the heads up).

I’ve read some Brits’ (notably Ben’s) comments in earlier posts. I stand at attention to the steel of their resolve.
When newsmaking things happen in London like they have today, I invariably go to a couple of level headed, gun-owning Briton’s to get the what’s what. The Englishman at an Englishman’s Castle has no related post yet (I hope he’s ok).
But Mr Free Market at Free Market Fairy Tales addresses the spineless murdering scumbags with defiant, determined, and admirable prose. A piece of it here.

We will fight you on the streets of Basra and if you decide to come to London, we will fight you there.
All of Hitlers bombers and V weapons couldn’t daunt us, neither will you.

The rest of it here.
Update: Added Union Jack plus good news, the Englishman is ok.

I wake up to news of coordinated terrorist bombings in the very London subway system I have used in the recent past. Like Frank said, terrorism should piss us off rather than scare us and I am pissed off for sure.
In spite of the fact that terrorists are usually male Arab Muslims between the ages of 18-45, the press conference in London has been careful not to implicate any group, even the most obvious–Al Qaeda. There is no shortage of hateful whackjob Muslims in London who are abusing the United Kingdom’s very liberal freedom of speech laws and who admire Al Qaeda and advocate the destruction of the very society that allows them to speak such madness.
If Al-Qaeda is behind the London subway bombings, I doubt that England will roll over like the Spainards did on 3/11. God save the Queen and up the irons, England!
It will be interesting to see what tomorrow brings. Will the idiot anti-free market communists protesting in Scotland take to the streets to protest Al-Qaeda tomorrow or will they claim “the West had it coming”?
Ooooooh, if that happens I say it’s open season on hippie protestors everywhere.

I was going to write a bit earlier, but I finally got a call from my brother, Sgt. Joe foo’ the Marine, in Iraq (hadn’t heard from him in a while). More on that later in another post.
In light of the attacks in London (good round up of links and links to links from Glenn Reynolds with plenty more from Michelle Malkin) I’m not going to do a humor post today (“But if we don’t hear about Chomps attacking people in his confirmation hearing, the terrorists have already won!” some cry). Instead, I’d really like to get a discussion going in the comments section as much of this I’m still processing and trying to put together.
First off, my condolences to my UK readers. What I was stunned by is how well the British are handling this; the scenes I saw on TV made it look like this was almost routine (I know London has dealt with terrorism before, but not of this magnitude). There wasn’t mass panic, and that show of strength means so much in times like this. The purpose of terrorism is terror, and, in some ways, it seems the terrorists have already been thwarted.
I also would like to reiterate what Tony Blair said about an attack on any of our allies is an attack on us all. Not that I wish us bad, but I really hate it how it’s not big bad America getting attacked, but instead it’s our allies. But the proper mindset is that we got attacked today, and that “we” includes anyone reading this, whatever country you live in. I don’t even care if somehow this ends up not to be Al Qaeda; all the civilized world needs to stand up against all such attacks – wherever they occur.
When Blair spoke from G8, there was Bush at his right and Chirac at his left. I know there’s a lot of disrespect for Chirac and much of the French in general, but France still remains a prime target for terrorists. Despite the jokes on this site, I hope our mindset is that if those Al Qaeda bastards harm but one @#$% hair of a Frenchman in Paris, we’ll treat it like the Capitol itself was bombed. All of us are in this together.
And I believe that to be the key; attacks like this should not scare us, they should only piss us off.
Except its hard not to be a little scared. This is our world now. We (and when I say ‘we,’ I mean all nations) can be attacked at home at any time. We don’t know who is next, but we know there will be a next. One day that next will be the U.S. again. The Sword of Damocles has been hanging over America since 9/11, and the thread will break eventually. So what do we do? My brother is currently helping settle Iraq; others are in Afghanistan. For the rest of us, all I know is to keep resolved and keep going strong no matter what. The road to defeating terrorists is a long one – maybe there is no end – and the best I think we can do is continue to increase our determination in the face of these attacks and whatever else comes.
They can hurt us, but they’re losing. Let’s keep them losing.
Any more thoughts? I really just want to discuss this with you all right now. Events like this always make you want to do something.
God bless and care for you, London; this attack is being answered as we speak.