31-08-2009, 11:51 AM
major diversion, agreed.
the sanctions then the trial were meant to drag this out forever until everyone had forgotten about the discrepancies in the official tale of lockerbie. thatcher and bush had made a deal to attack iraq, and bush was interested in dealing with syria's assad directly for his heroin instead of going through middlemen in lebanon. more ominously, the scottish police would not stop investigating this as a murder and would've eventually got to the bottom of it. then there was the civil war in america between bush's shadow government people and institutions with a more democratic tradition behind them. sanctions put all this on the back burner so things could settle down, and the scots could be placated with talk of their fine jurisprudence etc.
the sanctions then the trial were meant to drag this out forever until everyone had forgotten about the discrepancies in the official tale of lockerbie. thatcher and bush had made a deal to attack iraq, and bush was interested in dealing with syria's assad directly for his heroin instead of going through middlemen in lebanon. more ominously, the scottish police would not stop investigating this as a murder and would've eventually got to the bottom of it. then there was the civil war in america between bush's shadow government people and institutions with a more democratic tradition behind them. sanctions put all this on the back burner so things could settle down, and the scots could be placated with talk of their fine jurisprudence etc.