oh god - more scare alerts... al qaida has wmd blah blah. the washington post is pretty foul, and *must* be read as an instrument of the white house... didja know that it was owned by the moonies?

dare i mention the absurdity just b4 the start of the bombing when bush et al announced that they were preparing to publish a palestinian peace roadmap... havent seen that yet...

ok - more now on the 'fox' chemical factory... the beebtv are leading with the story on the hour... 'it has been camoflauged so it cant be seen from the sky, and *is surrounded by an electric fence*' emphasis mine... i love it when foxnews says something stupid, i hate it when the beeb does... they also continue saying 'pockets of resistance'... speedhumps along the inexorable road to baghdad... a few brave but misguided iraqis... 'obviously very loyal to saddam' - either that, or they dont like stupid imperial christo-fascists taking over their country and bombing the shit out of them...

an interviewer asks blair what he thinks of saddam 'parading POW's' - blair pauses, responds, quavers, earnestly "Sometimes when people ask me is it really necessary to get rid of Saddam I say look at the things he does. Parading people in that way is contrary to the Geneva Convention, contrary to all the proper rules of conflict. He has mined the oil wealth of the country. He tortures and murders people at will in Iraq." im sorry tony, im probably one of the last to abandon you... i wanted to believe... but when you say shit like that, im really, really tempted to walk out the door... i dont know where to start... how about this: geneva convention or not, broadcasting and killing people is different. and lets remember it was aljaz that did the broadcast, and it probably does not break the geneva convention. and i, for one, noticed the lovely segue from 'what do u think of parading' to 'get rid of him - look at the things he does.' 'parading' *jump* 'oil and theft' *jump* 'torture and murder.' and lets remember that your bitch has pulled out of just about every treaty ever signed, and that the current invasion is arguably illegal both in domestic US law, and international law... and you earnestly complain, with an oak background on the teeve, about a stupid video in a 'war' which is the most televisualised war ever, where 'embedded' journos film iraqis surrendering, and the 'allied' media print press releases as stories...

ill slam the door on my way out. *SLAM*