We in US must be relieved that Israel is ok with us selling Saudi Arabia and others in the region $20B worth of military hardware. Why not just ask Saudi royal family to pay $20B for protection and let contractors (hired guns) do the job. Then we don't have to worry what if these weapons fall in to evil doers hands. We could also let Israel decide how and when to sell our military weapons in Middle East.

Does anybody wonder anymore why they hate us???

Here is the headline from major coporate news media " US plans $20B arms sales to Middle East". As if the buyers are bunch of 2 year olds that must/will listen to daddy!!! Don't you wonder why they hate us and thier puppet leaders -----

So much has been said and written about Saudis Wahabiasim and how its penetrated into even their school text books. I wonder how Israel is addressing its treatment of Palestinians in their text books? Are they telling their young people how their grandfathers expelled millions of Palestinians to make room for their homeland. I guess not and no one will report on that in our corporate media since the subject is untouchable. I wonder how long we can keep this double standard going and have a straight face about it. Arabs are not buying that anymore and so rest of the world.

Keep partisan politics and patriotism out of college campases, let the freedom ring in that last hamlet for unashamed, unregulated, unedited, uncorporated,...... to remain free to lash out at will. That goes for Colorado University as well. So much fear after 9/11, we must shake this paranoia loose or all will not be well for long.

The problem with unjust and without cause occupation of another nation is that you keep getting deeper and deeper in justifying violent suppression of natural/organic will to fight the occupier. This cycle continues until your original objectives become a faded memory and irrelevant. All you deal with then is the next attack and how to manage your next counter attack. Your soldiers become either numb to the unjust nature of their presents and few get vocal about the wrongs they are doing. But vast majority of them will carry on like a good soldier, because that is what they are trained to do and its human nature. It has nothing to do with valor or patriotism, these two qulaities come to play only when you fight injustice.

Mean while the occupied's goal remain the same as the first they of the shock and awe. The few sick soldiers will commit atrocities that will go unpunished, because you can't afford to deal with them just like in Vietnam, Israel, Sudan, Kuwait, Afghanistan, .... Few soldiers will do good humanitarian things but their work will drown in the sea of death and destruction.

Again its not the soldiers that are the evil doers. The policy makers will have to answer for this act. They who proposed and voted to invade and occupy knowing this would be the outcome, don't let them fool you that they didn't know. If they didn't know that we would be here today five years after that decision the whole system and political establishment is doomed. So, I don't believe for a minute that they didn't know!!!!

Here is another twisted irony piling up on top of everything surreal we have experienced since 9/11. For US to withdraw from Iraq at this time is in par with same illegal and immoral decision to invade and occupy this poor (not withstanding vast oil and gas reserves) country.

That would be an outrageous chapter in our human story ----- God save the empire ---

Major news outlet in US today carried "Iraq government missed all targets", gee, didn't south Vietnam miss then all too way back when. This says a lot about our independent US media that is still fearful of truth after over 4 years of lies and deception they've so patriotically have carried.

More than 1/2 the people in US "now" want/like to impeach Bush and VP. Unfortunately its too little and too late. After 4 years slim majority of Americans re-elected him and his way of moving forward, every unjust killing and mayhem inflicted on young American and Iraqi lives can not be washed away by this nonsense show of displeasure. Americans will have to take the blame as much as Bush for going after them to revenge 9/11 and collectively punish them. Regardless of just cause and without even pretending to prove guilt before the "shock and awe".

After few years now we might forget but will they? --- only time will tell ---

I wonder what is the real story behind Iraq's so called new "Oil Law". We in this side of the pond as usual get snippets of what is unfolding over in the oil rich protectorate. From another perspective perhaps this is nothing since all this talk will be mute after our soldiers leave!!!

I am sure like every other covert operation that US has undertaken like assassinating Fidel this will come out later.

How long we will covertly manage the world ---- Time is running out, I think, may be ---