I’m really torn about whether to hate or love Bush Jr. On the one hand, he is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iraqis but on the other hand he has done more to end the reign of the American Empire than anybody including Reagan.

I’m also torn on Obama vs. McCain for the same reason as above. On the one hand, Obama like Clinton could turn the Republican deficit into a surplus and perhaps get a settlement for Palestine and Israel. On the other hand eight more years of Bush – I mean McCain and a war with Iran which is four times larger and has more than double the population of Iraq and has many more sophisticated weapons could very well be what bankrupts the US, demoralizes what is left of the armed forces and leaves them unable to dominate the world.

Unfortunately, I’m going to have to go with McCain because more Iraqis died under Clinton than under Bush. Clinton deprived Iraq of food and medicine with his sanctions and over 500 000 children died (see WHO, IRC) and when Albright was asked if the USA was justified in killing half a million children, she said “yes”.

For all of us non-American citizens, go to McCain’s website and donate money. When asked for a Zip Code, just pick almost any random five digit number – I went with 85050 (Phoenix, Arizona) but I’m sure 90210 would work just as well.

I feel sorry for all the Iranians and US soldiers who will die under McCain and I pray that God will take my explanation on Judgment Day, that I was doing it for the good of the world in the long term and I would encourage all those that donate to also donate to the International Red Crescent/Red Cross after the war to help the orphaned children and maybe some money for all the disabled soldiers that make it back alive. God Bless and please forgive me.

If I’ve misjudged your post, I apologize. I read it as suggesting the Brits were more enthusiatic about the ill-conceived Iraqi invasion/occupation than the US.

I would encourage many bloggers on this site to do sum lernin from books an stuf at the liebary b4 usin tirms that arnt cumpletly understood, prior to posting comments. Feel free to do the same for date, names, and events as well.

Every British poodle will support whatever the US wishes. While most other nations were against the US attack on Iraq, the English can always be counted on to do the wrong thing, especially in the Middle East. They created Israel, they attacked Egypt, they drew the imaginary boundaries for countries that didn’t exist, and they assigned and allowed dictators to run these new countries. I could go on and on.

As bad as the US is behaving at the present, the Anglos are the worst thing that ever happened to this planet. Ironically, if not for the Saxons, they would probably still be eating raw meat and trying to swim off of their island.

That is our sand!

Jill

Exactly. “How in the heck did OUR oil wind up underneath THEIR sand?”

Leave it to the professionals!

More GOP revisionist history. Were you asleep while Bush begged, bribed and threatened countries to join his mad march to Baghdad? If any country was exercising colonial dreams, it was the US, not England. If any country was desperately in need of allies for its misadventure, it was the US, not England.

Do you righties first decide what is the most inane comment on any given subject and then double it? Why would you keep embarrassing yourselves and continually confirm the WORST stereotypes of conservatives and their worldview? Even McBush would tell you to stop as you guys are doing far more harm than good to him and the GOP.

I guess it should be expected that these “men” were English. England also needed the US to attack Iraq to keep its fantasy of colonial power alive a little longer.