As a Briton with a keen interest in Indian affairs, I read Mr. Bhadrakumar's article with interest as I expected great insight from a former Ambassador. Halfway through this article, however, I had to stop and do a double-take, as I couldn't believe what I was reading. This person seems to be an avid advocate for Arab interests, over and above those of India! If these are his personal feelings, he should have recused himself from his Indian Ambassadorship and sought Arab citizenship. On reading his other articles, I couldn't believe that someone who had such pronounced biases was allowed to set Indian foreign policy in the countries he was Ambassador in! Are you Indians utter fools to have people like this as your diplomats?
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by Sanjay Jamdade on Jan 11, 2007 09:23 PM Permalink
but what about the westerns companies that sold chemical weapons to saddam? and what about the millions of children in iraq who died in iraq during the oil embargo? What about his impeccable credentials as a secularist? I know nither Bhadrakumar nor Saddam but Since you put it that way you got to clear your stand. For a long time saddam and osama were western puppets. When they refused to dance to western tunes that the anti saddam tirade began. Saddam was a western creation not Bhadrakumars.
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by Abdul on Jan 03, 2007 03:25 PM Permalink
Julia, you have shown your true color. This is what Britons are. Briton n US have fallen below their grades to achieve their goals. I say its with the help of US/Brit that Saddam got the chemical weapons n you people used Saddam to get the job done. God is watchin n its matter of time that US n Briton is punished for their deeds. Coz evry Kingdom has its end.
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by Mehul on Jan 03, 2007 03:13 PM Permalink
Yes He was! He is just giving his views on the observations that he has made for that Man (Saddam) and his country.
Any question his intelligence and thoughts. Why? Because he wrote something that you dont want to read and accept and let others in world know of your intentions and motives of going to war.
And anyways he was giving his thoughts in line of some American scholar Noam Chomsky's writings...
My question is, is the Indian Ambassador a fool or the American Scholar a fool?
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by didmitrios on Jan 03, 2007 02:26 PM Permalink
I ditto your sentiment. This is horrifying but true. Sadly our foreign affairs are largely controlled by people who put the interersts of other countries (read Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Pakistan and other anti American and fundamentalist nations) and their own narrow selfish mitives above the country's general interest. That is precisely why India finds itself at the nadir in terms of foreign affairs. We are currently being ruled by people of specific ideologies who have their own narrow selfish motives in upholding the cause for specific nations. And our bureaucracy is moulded in the same pattern. But that need not be the sentiment of common people.
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by Md. Yazed Alam Khan on Jan 04, 2007 12:35 PM Permalink
Yes Julia, you are absolutely right. Indian politicians, not only the diplomats are in general very selfish and do have vested interests in steering the country's foreign affairs. We Indians know it very well, but, what can we do!!! If we raise our voice, we will be throttled and if we try to be united, it cannot be as we are either Hindus or Muslims or Sikhs or Isaiahs and so on.....In totality, one thing that I can spell upon: In order to raise your head, you must be of homogeneous origin otherwise you cannot shine....to many cooks spoil the soup...so we are very very self-complacent, as we should be and steering our own interest towards achieving our objectives, rather interfering with the affairs of the untrustworthy politicians.
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by arun on Jan 05, 2007 12:50 PM Permalink
dear Julia, wud u mind taking some time off and reading what the honourable prime minister of UK said about the WMD before and after the iraq war. go through it and then try to get a honourable prime minister in your home land rather than complaining about another countries diplomat.
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by pSSn hOMMe on Jan 11, 2007 02:28 PM Permalink
Julia, I have to say, with due regard, that lets not ask the wrong questions here. We all, at least with some common sense, can see the liars in Bush & Blair and party. I have no remorse for Saddam, but have great disregard for your leaders. The question you should be asking is " who gave you or the US the right to change regimes, bring democracy etc? You would do well to actually do some deep research learning how the British have destroyed this subcontinent with the partition of India & Pakistan? You should ask, how come Blair is your Prime Minister still after the grave lies he and Bush have told has claimed 680000 lives of Iraqis? You should ask why Saddam was hanged for 148 killings whereas Bush and Blair are directly responsible for 680000 killings (incl their own soldiers)?
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by shakil ahmed on Jan 12, 2007 09:04 PM Permalink
Have u read what I suggested..ur destructive history of imperialism?
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by sun on Jan 04, 2007 11:42 AM Permalink
julia sweetheart, on the first place even britonnnnes backed the war with the only reason of WMD not on the basis of who killed how many, american and british soldiers have killed hoardes of ppl in afghan & iraq and world over, so wht do u forget tht before commenting on ambassador of any country, u dont have a reason to judge the credibility of a person workin at any post unless you prove to be better than him/her...so shut yr mouth and read articles on whats the next 'oops' of britney spears. gotya!
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by AS on Jan 11, 2007 09:43 AM Permalink
Julia seems to be not knowing her boundaries while posting articles on the net. Or is it that truth is so hard to digest that she's addressed we Indians as "utter fools"? Grow up Julia; its high time we accept the truth. Who knows the terrorism of the Western world better than we Indians, who've slogged under the British rule for nearly two centuries. And this is one of the factors that we are able to empathize with the current situation in the Arab world.
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by Sanjay Jamdade on Jan 11, 2007 10:05 PM Permalink
The western world has got a Halo (manually) fixed to their heads. Their Pale skins automatically makes demi gods and godesses of them. What they speak becomes gospel truth. Their Aims,ambitions and goals should become the goals of the world. They should become the pacesetters.They should dictate who rules and when,where and how. They came as the East India Company and we should thank them for that. They mixed pig and cow fat on to cartridges and bullets in 1857 and we should thank them for that. They converted the entire north east to Christianity. They let loose thousands of motivated missionaries that are converting the entire chattisgarh to Christianity, demolished temples and built churches there(goa) but we should be secular and we should lick their boots for that. They killed few hundred women and children in Jalian wala baug and we should forgive them for that. They hanged Bhagat Singh, Sukhdeo and Rajguru (how boring)but we should over look that as an exaggeration. They used `divide and rule` but we should overlook that. They plundered and stole Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj`s sword, Tipu Sultans sword the Kohinoor Diamond but we should consider it a pleasure to gift the Queen precious stuff.They locked up Gandhi,Nehru, Savrkar and thousands of other people with perfect character in jails where some died. They started apartheid in South Africa which barely ended a decade ago. We needed your permission to even make salt(because we are utter fools remember!)Thanks Julia "Kingmaker" from thy pen floweth wisdom and mercy.We have decided to forget all your atrocities to mankind. Though every kingdom has an end I hope God forgets to end yours.Long live the queen!
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by pSSn hOMMe on Jan 11, 2007 02:28 PM Permalink
Julia, I have to say, with due regard, that lets not ask the wrong questions here. We all, at least with some common sense, can see the liars in Bush & Blair and party. I have no remorse for Saddam, but have great disregard for your leaders. The question you should be asking is " who gave you or the US the right to change regimes, bring democracy etc? You would do well to actually do some deep research learning how the British have destroyed this subcontinent with the partition of India & Pakistan? You should ask, how come Blair is your Prime Minister still after the grave lies he and Bush have told has claimed 680000 lives of Iraqis? You should ask why Saddam was hanged for 148 killings whereas Bush and Blair are directly responsible for 680000 killings (incl their own soldiers)?
RE:This man was an Indian Ambassador?
by ums iyer on Jan 10, 2007 02:24 PM Permalink
julia, i agree that a biased diplomat is a bad rep of the country. and as far as us being fools ... look what you have for a PM. cheers!
