MoJo Interviews Terry Jones

You’ve simply GOT to read this interview with Terry Jones (formerly of Monty Python, and now writing books and newspaper columns) in the latest version of MotherJones.com. Here’s a tiny excerpt…

“MJ.com: In the introduction to your book, you note that the columns are published as they first appeared, “with ignorance of what would happen next.” How troubling is it to you that many of your predictions were more prescient than those from the American and British governments?

TJ: (laughs) It’s absolutely baffling, isn’t it? Because it’s really just common sense. I think for the two million people in London who protested Blair taking us into an invasion of Iraq, they knew it was a stupid thing to do and they’ve been proved right. And yet, you look at Tony Blair and he’s still saying exactly the same stuff, “It’s the right thing to do. We got rid of Saddam Hussein, that’s what we meant to do.” But even that, the whole thing about Saddam Hussein being a threat to our nation. Weapons of mass destruction. What would he have done with them? Was he going to bomb England? I mean, if he bombed England or if he’d bombed America, Iraq would’ve been wiped off the face of the earth. Why should he want to do that?”

Yeah. And as it turned out, he had no WMD capability to do any such thing… so how was he a threat to our nation (or even England)? And the guy that really is a threat is still running around on the loose, even though he requires kidney dialysis on a regular basis which, you would think, would be an easy way to find him, right? The whole thing is rather ludicrous. Here’s a little more…

“MJ.com: In another piece, you critique George Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address through the lens of a Hollywood script reader. What would you say about his inaugural address?

TJ: I did actually start doing one on his latest inaugural address, because what amazes me about it is he’s basically just declared war on the rest of the world. But nobody seemed to really notice. He said it in a very nice way, so maybe they missed what he was talking about. Basically, he said that America can take out any government it doesn’t like and do whatever it likes. It’s stunning. It’s people’s reaction to it that’s been extraordinary to me, that nobody’s taken notice of what he’s actually saying.”

Terry, nobody’s taken notice of a LOT of what he’s been saying for the last twenty years. Most of it has been spun to the point of meaninglessness, as well (tyvm Karl Rove). Unless people go back and really start reading what he literally SAID, very few people recognize the agenda for what it is.