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"THE U.S. AND U.K. ARE FASCISTS!"

"BUSH AND BLAIR ARE RACISTS WHO THINK MUSLIMS ARE INFERIOR!"

"WE ONLY CARE ABOUT OIL!"

See, now, those aren't jokes. Statements re way different than jokes and make their point or don't in a far different way.

You might as well say "A Modest Proposal" is just

"POVERTY IS BAD! LET'S BE MORE COMPASSIONATE!"

Although I'm certainly no Swift. I think you will find though, that every joke in my version was given an opening by what Blair actually said. This is precisely how satire works. The jokes are only funny if they play off of the reality. You may not agree, which is fine, but as I say at the end, I don't think this article is Winston Churchill. He put more craft and effort into his utilitarian political speech.