Everybody loves Boris Johnson

Amer­i­can read­ers don’t know who is this man I am talk­ing about? Boris John­son

You may ask why I write about Boris? The answer is sim­ple because Boris came back from Iraq yes­ter­day and that is not all because Boris is the first British MP run­ning his own Blog and he wrote about his visit.

Excerpt from his first post

Boris is obliv­i­ous to the bombs around him at the con­ven­tion cen­tre in Baghdad:

Had you told me that four shells had landed only 100 metres away, scat­ter­ing shrap­nel, I expect I would have hurled myself to the floor like any other self-respecting MP, a species widely cred­ited with a cockroach-like instinct for survival.

When he vis­ited one of Saddam’s bunkers he dis­cov­ered a ‘secu­rity sys­tem’ that would kill any­one in the premises instantly — even his employees:

…the safety of his employ­ees counted for nothing.

And why did they count for noth­ing? Because they could not vote to pun­ish him for his mad­ness. That is why we need to keep work­ing to make this democ­racy thrive in Iraq

Even the bombs couldn’t spoil this day

Read his first post here

Expert from his sec­ond post

They are behead­ing dozens of peo­ple every day
Here we are in 2005, and not only are all the main pub­lic build­ings still twisted and pan­caked and full of gap­ing cruise-holes, but the lights are still inter­mit­tent, san­i­ta­tion medieval, infla­tion at 30 per cent, petrol queues last­ing two days and cor­rup­tion — with­out the restraint of Baathist ter­ror — worse than ever

Read his last post here
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