My soundbite to Blair

Blair is right. There is no link between Iraq and these current attacks on London and elsewhere in Europe. The game is thus: Blair and Bush want to invade all of the Arab nations because their total GNP is not co-dependent on the free market system which supports and provides more capitalist nations with further avenues for expansion, profit, and reproduction. The Arab Nations are more alike self sufficient Principalities whom drain Eurocentric profits by the provision of oil, and Multinationals in the US and Britain are in dire need of both their resources and market patronage. The only way the Arabs will let go of their present independence is via Bush strumming up all these minor squirmishs worldwide so it gives him some kind of demented leverage - via the axis of evil - to start a war with them all! But mind you, Bush and Blair are puppets in this game! Iraq is nothing more than a micro diversion ... another Vietnam if you like! So keep you eye on the big picture and watch the Americans get their arses kicked into oblivion when both the Russians and Chinese step in to halt them dead in their tracks. Russia, China, and even the French clearly warned the U.S. after their fist attack on Iraq, that they will not tolerate such genocidal agenda's in the Middle East. You are witnessing the changing of the guard, a Global Civil revolution, with reference to present global domination under a guise of benefical modernity... in the name of Democracy, my arse! So just kick back and watch the show ... it's a real epic in the making this one! Captialism is about to die ... and well about bloody time too!

Bugger, I can remember a school of whales; a pride of lions; a troop of baboons but a collective of morons escapes me.

It's a 'morass or morons.'

fateful - Saddam could have avoided war by taking up the very generous offer of exile. That he chose instead to drag his country into an unwinnable conflict in the hope of igniting the region is evidence of a dictator living in a make believe world of denial (And please don't say the US-UK attacked a democratically elected government). As for the recent outrages in London: As far as I'm aware, Tony Blair didn't plant any bombs on the underground - religious fanatics, whose utopian vision of the world includes illiterate women and summary execution for non-believers, did so. Neither did Blair mistakenly shoot an innocent Brazilian. As I've said before, we've been in conflict/at war with Iraq for the past 14 years or so - well before Blair became PM. As the Lawnmower points out: there's a much bigger picture to look at.

There are no terrorists other than Government and the agents of Government. The only benign ruler is a dead one.

yeah... right on brother... power to the people.. put the kettle on.

I'm with you in that we live in times where shoot to kill is unfortunately something we have to accept. What I won't accept is if it is done when there is any margin for error. For example, if a suspect comes out of a block of flats rather than a specific flat that is being targetted, that the only reason he looks suspicious is his choice of outer wear, that he looks, perhaps, a bit "dark". If they were certain he was their man why did they let him get on a bus first. Too, too woolly.