Face it. The average Iraqi ain't that miserable, the average Russian wasn't that miserable. It's a BIG mistake to believe your own propaganda. BIG, BIG mistake. A joke. Makes you a pawn who believes it is moving itself. The real movers laugh at the arrogance of those pawns, by the way.

The picture of the US the ROW sees is one which imprisons it's own citizens without representation or charges and shoots the citizens of other countries at will and without provocation. That's their propaganda. As with all of it there's an element of truth.

And you and I both know that it's a relatively small percentage of people to whom those conditions are applied.

What happens if those Canadians, people with the courage of their convictions, people who will put themselves on the line rather than just talk about it, are in a hospital with a big Red Crescent which is bombed by the US? Because the US does bomb hospitals, embassies of neutral countries, shoots up wedding parties, etc. (Of course, GWB would have to say there were AA batteries, or something, in there.)

The outrage would be justifiable. And much more effective because someone who looks and dresses like us would have been involved.

Kinda admire their guts. Without people like them it would still be "separate but equal", with all the inequality that created. And which the conservatives loved.

Arf