Chek,

Bob Carr's comments on Thatcher were supposedly a private conversation held many years ago, even if they are not a figment of Bob's imagination, reporting them now, is pure cowardice and reprehensible given when it was raised.

Secondly as Australia's foreign minister this is blatant stupidity. What will Bob remember next? Perhaps Gandhi admitting he was a pedophile?

My dear Shadow Minister,

Carr's revelations added to the unfettered assessment of Thatcher's public life. It was timely in that the hagiographic feastings were both unsightly and deceptive.

Contrary to your belief, it takes courage to speak up against the revelry of the mob.

It was once a superstition that one speaks not ill of the dead. But we are now going through the records of paedophile priests some of whom are dead or at death's door. Why should we treat Thatcher differently?

Her Falklands War was perhaps not as pernicious as her predecessors' Opium Wars which rendered the entire Chinese people to a good century of befuddled subservience to the every whim of the invading nations which followed the Opium War precedent. All the same, the sinking of the Belgrano was reminiscent of the unnecessarily prolonged military rampage that the Brits indulged in the first Opium War to teach the Chinese a lesson for good!

And why should we white over her role in Pinochet's regime of terror?

Chek

Chek,

While I don't hold with uncritical examination of the dead, Carr's nasty and completely unsubstantiated moment of spite (probably an outright lie) at the moment of her passing is at the very least extremely crass. As foreign minister, to spew that bile at the time the British are mourning the passing of one of their most iconic leaders is offensive and astonishing idiocy.

As far as Pinochet is concerned, Thatcher, saw him as a bulwark against the communists in South America who were often far worse than Pinochet. As for the Opium wars? Really.

I have no respect for Bob Carr.He left NSW in a mess and a few months later joined Macquarie Bank with a part time consultancy of half a $ million pa to line up prime contracts with the NSW Govt.

Bob has now become friends with Henry Kissenger,a globalist who wants a one world Govt of Bankers to own and control us.

Bob is supposed to idolise the US Constitution yet dares not criticise Bush or Obama who are leading the West to fascist totalitarianism via The Patriot Act,Preventative Detention, legalised assassination and the National Defence Authorisation Act.