people are emigrating from the USA in search of safety - what a weird world

oh yeah - that 'stream of iraqi tanks' that was screaming into the desert away from Nassiriya on an apparent suicide mission - variously reported if im not mistaken up to 'hundreds of tanks'... well they were half right, it seems like it was a suicide mission of sorts - for *3* tanks!

so it seems there are stories put out by the coal about the evil iraqis cutting out the tongue of a dissenter... cept what has happened is that the iraqi info minister gets on air and says 'theres no way we'd do that, thats absurd'

1990 - "Minutes after Yemen voted against the resolution to attack Iraq, a senior American diplomat told the Yemeni ambassador: 'That was the most expensive No vote you ever cast.' Within three days, a U.S. aid programme of $70 million to one of the world's poorest countries was stopped. Yemen suddenly had problems with the World Bank and the IMF; and 800,000 Yemeni workers were expelled from Saudi Arabia."