The US administration seems to be faced with a reality far different from what rest of the world is facing. The "BUSH WHITE BOYS" are now setting to rewrite the latest UN charter to rid this world of poverty and perhaps change the conflict based relationships between slaves and masters. They are now wanting to Americanize the UN charter, as if rest of the world is here to serve uncle Sam. Of course as usual Western Europe is on board sort-a-kind-a, you see, that is because they want the UN to be Europeanized. Its not that they care about Africa, Middle East, Poverty, Aids, or anything else. They both are concerned about this matters only as it relates to their own well being.

I just wished they would say that its all about themselves. I can sympathize with that sort of candor and frankness. What pisses me off is Bush and Europeans acting holier that though and making this hegemony seem like a high moral stand by kicking around empty words like democracy and freedom.

The modern powers (after WW2) have never encouraged freedom and democracy in deed. What ever democratic movements have succeeded since then were because people fought for them, not because Europe or US have allowed it. The democracy has only been used by West to further its prosperity and security.

This world will continue to see violence. It is ironic that we in US spend more in cat food (over $9B) than most of the countries in the world on health care. When such a disparity exists where a pet has more value than a human being its no wonder there is so much conflict. I know the " hard working hunter gatherer" says we work hard and deserve all these privileges, but I say that is true if you live in a jungle and its all about you, remember that we left that life style several thousand years ago and now are CIVILIZED.

I am again reminded how biased the mainstream media in US is against Arabs and Palestinians. The coverage of removal of little over 8,000 settlers from Gaza is an indications of the deep hostility the US government and its corporate media has towards Arabs. There were 8,000 people encouraged by over 40 years of US support to settle in an area inhabited with over 1 million Arab "native" and refugees from the creation of Israel in 1945. We the tax payers in US have financed this occupation and dare to ask why they hate us!!!!!!!

The ratio of 8,000 to 1,000,000 is the indicative of how we in US and West in general views the Arabs. Bush's foreign policy and presidents before that has been based on loathing and disrespect for non Judeo-Chriscians of the world. This is the crux of the conflict between east and west, not the smoke screen Bush is presenting to American people for invading, detaining, economically terrorizing, and disregarding Arabs and others. Chinese and Indians know that and hopefully they will be the catalyst for changing this deep western hatred for anything non-western, or else!!!!!

Invasion planners in White House and Pentagon knew that we have short memory, like all the other military adventures in the past, people have adjusted to the killings now. If the number of dead stays in the two or three a day, well, we are ok with that.

Its so absurd that Bush is now acting like someone else decided to invade Iraq. He has been saying these days that we can't pull out of Iraq because "they" the people of Iraq will suffer. What a humanitarian, someone in the bible belt should nominate him for the Nobel prize!!!!!!

We in US may hide our head in the sand and pretend it didn't happened like we have done for sixty years but Japanese and rest of the (aware) world will never forget August 6, 1945, the day Hiroshima was nuked. YOU SIMPLY DO NOT KILL 250,000 innocent people in one shot to convince the enemy that you can. That day in our collective history is a constant reminder of the viciousness of man kind. To kill so many civilians to win a war is a war crime.

We the Americans on that day lowered the bar on what can morally be done to win the "war". Now it will not surprise me if a country decides to preemptively nuke another nation to prevent a potential WAR.

This DAY will never be forgotten except in places where wining is everything.