Desperate Measures

Well, here's a thing: the Conservatives in Blackburn, the constituency of Jack Straw, have withdrawn a leaflet claiming that the Government has been "a whole saga of atrocities committed in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Palestine and as if this was not enough, the Labour government allowed the Israeli government to create havoc in Lebanon and Gaza in Palestine, destroying their infrastructure and killing and maiming thousands of innocent civilians", and that during the last Israeli rampage in Lebanon "the Labour government did nothing, absolutely nothing, for a number of days while Israelis carried on their inhuman killing of innocent men, women and children". It is not clear at the moment whether the Conservatives withdrew the leaflet because their party has given enthusiastic support to the atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Lebanon, or because they do not care to be seen courting the Muslim vote, or merely because the allegations happened to be true.