By invading and occupying Iraq to bring democracy at gun point, or so what Bush and corporate media tell its electorate, US will never be any safer from attackes than she was before or after 9/11. In fact these same policies in the last 40 years have contributed to such an organized and deep rooted rebellion against US. The opposition has used whatever at its disposal, such as Islam and unconditional support for Israel today and will use other available tools later to fight what it sees attempt at total domination by few states.

The fact is clear that the counter response to West's designs are consolidating and will further mature and cover all aspects of a well organized front. The days of cold war and one superpower are numbered.

The history will not look kindly at these last 15 years which West lead the world by US as the headmaster. They had an ideal position to do something that would change the entire plight of human kind fro the foreseeable future. In contrary the power houses were too worried about protecting their own short term "National Security" backyards and totally disregarded the bigger picture. They only thought about bigger homes, more iPODs, bigger SUVs, and opening up markets for their products. What they failed to do to build a true global community made of ethnic and regional neighborhoods. What they could have done was to breakdown the "national" barriers and created shared communities.

Then main cause of this missed opportunity is the market economies of the states with Nukes and capital. These econmomic systems that may have worked in 20's throught 60's if not substantially reforemd will collapse under its own weight by ultimately not responding to our global needs. They may have worked for single community with clear nationl bounderies but as they stand it can not support a multicultural global community. This system will creat more ethinic and class fighting leading to more wars.

WITH THIS I USHER THE NEW JUDEO CHRISTIAN YEAR OF 2006 and HOPE THAT WE MAY TURN THIS SHIP AROUND.

This what the president Bush said today:

President Bush (Dec. 14): "We are living through a watershed moment in the story of freedom. Most of the focus now is on this week's elections -- and rightly so. Iraqis will go to the polls to choose a government that will be the only constitutional democracy in the Arab world. Yet we need to remember that these elections are also a vital part of a broader strategy for protecting the American people against the threat of terrorism."

This man should room with Ahmadinejad -- They both are out of this world.

Now we will see how these lies will pan out -- Lets hope the corporate media remembers this day like many others in the last 1000 days of illegal/immoral/unnecessary invasion and occupation of Iraq with thousands dead and injured.

I wonder if today people are voting for "Ali-Baba and Forty occupiers in Baghdad"?????

Assuming Saddam trial is not a show by an occupying force to pacify Iraqis, we can use this model to bring to justice other mass torcher and killers.

I say UN or non-aligned members to investigate/interview Powell, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bennett, and others in Bush administration outside of US on what they knew before invading Iraq that lead to killing and torcher of thousands of Iraqis. If we have a right to question governments officials in Syria then Bush administration is no exception. If the rule of law to be applied uniformly we must interrogate the Bush team.

Then we'll see how high of a moral stand this corrupt Bush team is standing on.

Perhaps terrorism is only the West's problem. This latest mutation or the Islamic version is nothing but effects, the cause resides in EU and North American capitals. To expect middle East to curb or take action against this outbreak is like asking Palestinian to stop resisting occupation before the occupier could arrange to perhaps leave their land. The eggs layed by the cold war manipulations and colonialism are beginning to hatch!!!!!
No cigar------

Just got back from Middle East after about two years. The gulf between West and Middle East's understating of what is going on with Iraq, their oil, and host of other political, social, and economical issues is as wide as gulf of Mexico. The crap that is being fed to people of both side of the divide is unbelievable. Both side is being told things that do not exist.

Here in the land of free a picture of evil and barbarics are created of Middle East and over there a picture of blood sucking imperialists that its entire purpose is to destroy the Muslim world. So, in short we are even farther apart than we were before 9/11. One crazy act of terror has lead to creation of a conflict that will last generations. The hatred on both side is becoming institutionalized.

All the pieces are coming together for the clash of civilizations. In perhaps 10 to 20 years our boys from Iowa and elsewhere will continually fight the Muslims in several locations with help from the "Allies of the evil" to fight the "Axis of the evil.

meanwhile other issues like China and India complicating the conflict. At least for now these two future great powers will sit on the side line and let the great power do the fight.

Most of this conflict is fueled by the US fight to win policy to secure natural resources for its enless need to waste.