What caught my eye this morning:

SARS This could end up nasty... None where I live yet but only a matter of time, I guess.



Iraq Well, why am I not surprised at this chaos??? I have to qualify that... I am amazed that the Americans are amazed at what is happening. I mean... I know their president does not like to read but surely some of his advisors once in their lives picked up a history book??? Of course there would be lawlesness and chaos after lopping off the top of an extremely suppressive regime. The British could have told them that too, chaos reigns in their "protectorate" too... I have been reading stories with quotes like "we are not policemen" for quite a while now - the Americans are also not planning on lifting a finger here.

I guess they dont read the news in the Pentagon, it might interfere with the truth!

Or... this is exactly what they want in the Pentagon, a legitimate excuse to set up military US rulership for an undetermined time. The Americans are planning on administering the oil fields for now... until they can hand it over (big surprise). I guess that will be when democracy finally descends there. Ten years from now???



Syria: Speaking of truth... drums are beating harder for Syria. It actually may be true that many top Iraqui officials etc made a run for Syria. So... of course the country needs to be invaded.... logical, isnt it???





Food for oil This resumes now, under a new resolution - in part the funds will be used to repair war damages. I have a hard time with this. I thought, according to international law, an occupying army has to pay for reparations to the country they occupied. It certainly is not fair that the Iraquis themselves have to finance the repairs of damages caused by the American invasion.



Light relief Lawmakers allowed companies to dump whatever junk they wanted in the sea for years and to hell with those namby pamby protectors of the spotted owl!!! ... the fish end up with all that mercury and heaven knows what else in their bodies... fishermen catch them, sell them to restaurants who prepare them for the paying customer... who gets ill from all that mercury. How to fix this??? Well, by letting the lawmakers sue the restaurants, of course!