At the time of writing, newspapers are reporting that the Bush administration currently has clear plans for using nuclear weapons against seven different countries. If that doesn't involve the deliberate & purposeful planning to kill thousands of innocent children, I don't know what does.

  At the time of writing, newspapers are reporting that the Bush administration wants Blair to commit 25,000 ground troops to a military assault on Iraq. Even British intelligence is presenting Blair with reports that show no evidence of any link between the regime in Iraq & the Al Khaida organisation, & no evidence of any increase in weapons of mass destruction capability.

  However, Madeleine Allbright, US secretary of state, accepted publicly the figure of half a million children in Iraq having been killed as a result of US led sanctions. This was an "acceptable price to pay". However, even accepting the arguments put forward by government apologists that these deaths were due to Saddam Hussein's internal policies, this still means that the US has knowingly persisted with a policy designed to curb Saddam's power that has involved the deaths of half a million innocent children, & furthermore, that this policy, to judge by the current policy that insists on the need for military action, has all along been an abysmal failure.

  And speaking of failures, at the time of writing, the west has been attacking Afghanistan for months, but militarily the indications are that the majority of Bush's identified targets are so far unaccounted for, the resistance to foreign invasion continues - 2 helicopters downed last week - & the US is treating the prisoners it has taken with an appalling disregard for human rights. What the bombing offensive against Afghanistan has achieved is the murdering of more people than the hijackings of September 11th.

  The bombing of Baghdad, & of Belgrade, has demonstrated time & time again, in terms of broken bodies, that there is no such thing as a smart bomb. The euphemism 'collateral damage' just means dead civilians. Despite initial posturing about any attack on Afghanistan being a new cleaner sort of war, the US moved rapidly to the use of monstrous weapons of mass destruction whether with bleakly ironic names like the 'daisy cutter' bombs or with the high altitude terrorism of carpet bombing that devastated large areas of south east asia in the 70s.

  The fact is that US foreign policy has deliberately supported military / terrorist activities that have murdered thousands of civilians - 40,000 Nicaraguans killed by US organised Contras in the 1980s, when the US was actually found guilty by the world court over its aggression against Nicaragua.

  The fact is, the Bush administration is completely in the pocket of American capital's interests - from the withdrawal from the Kyoto agreement to the recently declared intention to impose steel tariffs. Dick Cheney, current vice president, is an ex CEO of Haliburton Oil. Halliburton oil won a £30million contract from Turkmenistan in 1997 to drill for oil in the Caspian Sea - where $4trillion worth of reserves are estimated to be buried. Guess which is the most profitable & strategic way for that oil to be exported?

a) through Boston

b) through Bournemouth

c) through Afghanistan

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