Some Thoughts...

I haven't posted in a bit -- got tired of singing the same old song, and couldn't find the heart to write about other things while the world is in such a mess and so many innocent people continue to die for the shabby cause of American "National Security". Also, I have a profound sense that the facts about what's been going on are clear to all. Even the neo-conservatives have run out of saleable lies - only the absolutely moronic could buy their line. Unfortunately there are enough morons in the world to keep the pot boiling for a little while yet. But not for long, I think. The poor of the USA have figured out that Bush & Co. have decieved them, largely because it is their children arriving home from the middle east in body-bags, or horribly maimed.

Oh, and because Iraqis still live amid chaos, and under occupation.

The tame (read: lame) mainstream US media have run out of positive stories to "spin" events in the middle east and the ordinary American can see the mess they have become mired in. Of course, Bush has no interest in any of this - he will retire soon and concentrate on his Presidential library. I wonder if he will decorate the foyer with photographs of dead Iraqi children? Bottom line - that is his legacy, whatever nonsense he tries to peddle. He can mutter and stumble through as many "freedom is on the march!" speeches as he likes, but the reality is that Americans will have to live with the terrible consequences of his actions for generations to come.

Who could blame the father of an Iraqi child, murdered by US bombs, if he vowed to take revenge? And there are thousands of such people - fathers, brothers, uncles, mothers and sisters. The US propaganda machine can talk about "foreign combatants" until they are blue in the face, but the reality is that many, many thousands of innocent Iraqis who have held the broken bodies of their dead children hate America and Americans more than they ever hated Saddam. And they really hated him.

The hatred of these people is very real and very justified, and they will continue to extract revenge on American and British soldiers until they leave Iraq. And then? Then they will pursue the enemy to its lair: the USA. The terrible truth is that most American people are kind, decent and reasonable. They are the ones who will bear the brunt of any future terrorist activity - not those who visited such violence on the people of the middle east.

The American people may be uneducated and unquestioning, but they were convinced that their elected representatives were acting in their interest. Why? Because they were told terrible and scary things, as were the people of europe - the difference is that the people of europe have a better attitude towards their politicians: they trust them about as far as they could throw them.
This is why even Blair's own party didn't really believe him, never mind the public. And again, the poor, those who join the army, died for Blair and his dodgey dossier.

The reality of all this is terrible, crushing. Yet, the world goes on.

I have been doing a lot of web-surfing lately and there is a lot of wild and wonderful stuff out there. Many people are convinced that there is a world-wide conspiracy involving ancient families and bloodlines. They might be right. Others are convinced that Bush, the Queen and others "at the top" are, in fact reptiles - alien creatures that control the world by "shape-shifting" into human form. I suppose nothing can be ruled out - but I suspect that the truth is far worse: those who have inflicted this terror on us are very human. They just don't act like it.