Today I guess I make sure everything's ready for the trip. The to-do list is pretty short at this point; I just have to send model releases to Patrick, print out all needed info (phone numbers, contact info, etc.), make sure all my video batteries are charged, finish packing, and get my glasses fixed.
Yesterday I wrote the manual for IAM maintenance and BME contingency handling, and the updating software is complete… So in theory war can break out and if I'm stranded in the UK for a month, updates could still occur without major difficulty!
So even though North Korea continues to threaten to nuke just about everybody if the US attacks it, the US is now threatening it with a naval blockade. Again, contrary to what most people believe, North Korea is not a tropical paradise — it's damn cold, and people are freezing and starving. A naval blockade serves one primary purpose: it means those people can't get the supplies they need to survive. This is the US in effect threatening to kill the civilians of that nation because they don't like the government's actions — making them no better than petty terrorists.
Even though Blix says the inspections in Iraq are going well and the situation is improving, after Powell's ridiculous smoke and mirrors evidence (“smoking gun” gun you say?), Bush says he's lost patience with the process and that it's time to git bombing! So, the poorer countries in the UN are getting bribes in exchange for their “support”, and Rumsfield blames France and Germany for the war because they want to increase the size (and effectiveness) of the inspections teams.
Someone please explain this logic:
USA: We're sick of inspections. War begins now!
France/Germany: The inspections are going well, let's do more.
USA: Good going, now the war is YOUR fault!
That's got to be one of the more impressive pieces of doublethink I've seen in a while. By being part of the anti-war movement, you are the cause of war. I wonder — with so many Christian religious leaders vehemently opposed to this war, including the Pope, what do avowed Christians like Ashcroft think? No secret there — Ashcroft's main concern is more domestic spying and less judicial review!
And how can Ashcroft achieve what he wants? After all, the American people won't just bend over for these laws, will they? They need to be scared into it, and maybe that's where his support for the war comes from — after all, a war on Iraq may well bring a second front of terrorism onto the American people, giving Ashcroft all the ammunition he needs to eliminate civil rights and freedoms altogether.
The fact is that the US government desires not only war, but terrorism.
Their actions over the past fifteen years absolutely prove that.
Well, not the whole government of course — just the shadow government of the corporate nation that's already seized control of the US. There are three bills in Congress intending to repeal this war (not that you'd know it) put forward by presumably decent people who also happen to be politicians.
On a slightly unrelated government note, a week ago I mentioned the Republican involvement in tainted voting machines, now check out their latest scam: hiring telemarketing companies to block the phone lines of Democratic offices that did things like give people rides to polling stations on voting day… Does that mean that the Republican party does not support democracy? (Not that I think it means anything other than “they got the idea first”).
Well, the US economy continues to crash, and the Iraqi economy actually shows signs of improvement… What a strange and horrible world this can be…!
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