Back to ...normal. Lili's dead. Kyle's a fish storm. Hurricane season is winding down for another year. Soon El Nino will be hyped up in the media. Blah.
Whores the lot of them.

A Bush/Clinton/Iraq/Absurdity-of-war Rant for the early morning hours:

Apparently, I'm a libreal. Which is incorrect. I'm an antiwar libertarian.

When Clinton bombed Iraq in 1998, it's really funny to note that all the people who want war now (that racist bastard Lott, etc. etc.) were all against it. I of course opposed it. When NATO's US led forces bombed Serbia to stop them from doing whatever it was they were doing to the Kurds, I opposed that too, and so did all the people who want war now.

Okay, so what's different now? Oh yeah...the Great Leader (typed with much malice and sarcasm) is in office. All Hail CaesarBushShrubBoyKingIdiot!

as for the gassing, check this quote.

"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases; gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected."
Winston Churchill, UK Secretary of State at the War Office, when approached by the UK Royal Air Force for permission to use poison gas "against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment" in Iraq, 1919.
----www.krystall.com is where this quote came from. see below.


geeeeeeeeeee i wonder where Saddam got the idea for the gas...it probalbly wasn't a good thing that the US (us) gave it to him. Yeah...real cool move there Reagan (again, much malice and sarcasm)

That's as far as my tired brain will let me take that line of ranting.


I did some digging on East Timor.

Philip Liechty, a retired desk officer of the USA's CIA in Indoinesia's capital, Jakarta, describes the events to Australian journalist, John Pilger:
"I saw intelligence that came from hard, firm sources in East Timor. There were people being herded into school buildings and the buildings set on fire. There were people herded into fields and machine gunned, and hunted in the mountains simply because they were there. We knew the place was a free fire zone and that Suharto was given the green light by the United States to do what he did. We sent the Indonesian generals everything that you need to fight a major war against somebody who doesn't have any guns. We sent them rifles, ammunition, mortars, grenades, food, helicopters. You name it, they got it. And they got it direct. Without continued, heavy US logistical military support, the Indonesians might not have been able to pull it off. None of that got out in the media. No one cared. No one gave a damn. It is something that I will be forever ashamed of."
---------from krystall

Despicable. But typical US policy. And we were really trying to contain communism then. So Containment was one issue in the whole East Timor thing. Reading further on this same website, I discovered that East Timor has a lot of gas and oil. Oh. Okay.

I knew oil was involved. Australia and Indonesia split it between them. The US looked the other way. 250,000 East Timorese were slaughtered.

Yuck.

I recommend this website highly. It has a well researched timeline on the acts of the "Democracies." acTs of the Democracies