Tonight's photo: Taken yesterday from one of my stopping points during my late afternoon walkAfter a fairly lengthy break, it is nice to have the blog back in it's normal format.
Quite a lot has happened since i On Global Trends, last appeared as normal; probably the biggest news item being the farcical demonstration of democracy and justice in "liberated Iraq".
The best that can be said about the "Mississippi Burning" type lynching, is that the timing of the execution is the only thing the American administration has managed to get right in the hell hole they have created.
As one poster to this blog quite rightly pointed out - dead men tell no tales.
For those who would like documented details of Rumsfeld's trips to Iraq in 1983 and 1984, the National Security Archive has a fascination collection of official documents, cables, and meeting transcripts.
I suggest: Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein and Saddam Hussein: More Secret History
Oh I know the indoctrinated, uninformed "Ugly Americans" who are sadly more loudly heard than the vast majority of decent Americans, will jump out of their comfy armchairs, and brand me a Saddam Lover, pinko, and all the other ineffective tags their limited education and limited exposure to unbiased informed sources permit - but let them.
You see, no one takes any notice of such people anymore - they have become a laughing stock even within their own country. They shuffle along on the lower strata's of the socio-intellectual scrap heap, happily oblivious to the fact that their idols have turned a once great nation into a laughing stock.
When America speaks - the rest of the world laughs - as individuals and as nations. That's what the Bush administration has succeeded in doing.
They stand on the world stage, selling their tawdry goods - but no one is buying anymore. We know too much.
If that was their aim - then it is the only time the yellow-bellied, draft dodging, small town thug from a family of crumby little sordid shits, can truthfully stand up and proclaim -
Mission accomplished.
I love America and I love the ordinary Americans - and though I am an "alien" I resent what that man and his partners in crime have done to a nation that has given the world so much.
Wherever you may be - be safe!
