Wikileaks defends Iraq war leaks

Those who propagated the Iraq War as some kind of democracy-in-action episode are getting all upset about us knowing of a bunch of second-rate butchers now running Iraq. Saddam Hussein and his fawning henchmen were of the first-rate variety. However, if you are getting roughed up with acid, waterboarding or just the fisticuffs with a view to a lingering, angonising death, it amounts to sod all difference who the torturers are.

The Iraq War was started because Bush and Blair decided Saddam needed to be given a whipping and, hopefully, the noose. Once he'd been despatched the oil barons could get in, and Donald Rumsfeld, arch brown noser of the former Saddam regime (when handshaking with dictators was the norm) could get things moving for Cheney's Haliburton chums. The whole raison d'etre was an outrage.

Now Wikileaks has disclosed facts which Hillary Clinton has suggested will put lives at risk. Sounds like she means American lives only. Those Iraqis who are still being bumped off by degenerates masqerading as democrats are not included.

The war in Iraq caused many to feel that the waging of war in the 21st century was a bogus matter. Gone was the reason for defending the nation (as in WW2) and gone was the reason for defending an ally against an aggressor. This was pure regime change because of retaliation or falling out of favour. It was war for a very different reason.

Both wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are a terrible mistake based on falsehoods. If it was all about democracy I'd be at least in favour of the reconstruction. But it isn't. Even the drug trade is better off than ten years ago. If we were that bothered we would have sprayed the poppy crops, controlled the arms trade and given the likes of those puppets currently in power in Baghdad and Kabul a one-sheet crib outlining Democracy for Dummies!

Guantanamo detainee arrives in UK

Binyam Mohamed, a detainee from the Guantanamo camp and a British resident of Ethiopian background is back on British soil. His tale of woe desperately needs examining, because what was done to him was done in our name. He says -

"It is still difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways - all orchestrated by the United States government."

George Bush and Dick Cheney receiving truthful reports or adulterated stories? We need to know, because if the truth does not come out, anyone can be lifted from the streets and carted off to a hellhole.

He goes on to say -

"For myself, the very worst moment came when I realised in Morocco that the people who were torturing me were receiving questions and materials from British intelligence.

I had met with British intelligence in Pakistan. I had been open with them. Yet the very people who I had hoped would come to my rescue, I later realised, had allied themselves with my abusers.

I am not asking for vengeance; only that the truth should be made known, so that nobody in the future should have to endure what I have endured."

David Miliband needs to come clean and not hide behind weasel words. His worst nightmare will be somebody exposing his knowledge at a time when he is least prepared for it.

London Olympic relay runs into Tibetan protests!

The Chinese automatons running alongside the Olympic flame looked more cheesed off than worried. Demonstrators have been out in force in London trying to promote awareness of Chinese brutality in Tibet.

My take on this is that the Chinese have no business in Tibet. It's not their country! Tibetans are not Chinese and the Chinese are not Tibetans. On top of that, there is a total lack of democratic accountability. People are being abused, culturally isolated, and generally being "controlled".

I have heard it said that the Olympics should not be about politics, and that would be fair enough if we lived in a world where everyone was able to live without torture and terror. However, the Tibetans are not so free and easy. China may not like this but they are going to have to live with it. Some of us can't stomach what they are currently serving up!

We in Britain, just as in other Western countries, have to consider every day what we are buying. You can't go into Argos now without buying something "Made in China". I reckon they've got 100% made there! The same goes for loads of other retailers. If we buy stuff from China, are we to put our consciences in a box by the door? I would hope not!

China can't try to manipulate the world's economy without those on the receiving end having thoughts about what's going on. Despotic and undemocratic regimes are going to get more of the spotlight put on them. Better those spotlights are not made in China, but their dark corners are now being exposed to the light!