That's the only conclusion I can come up with. President Bush is a man who illegally invaded another country that posed no threat, who justified the invasion under false pretenses, who manipulated the United Nations, has yet to bring the person responsible for 9/11 to justice, has turned the United States into a police state while rolling back personal rights and freedoms, and has brought the nation dangerously close to bankruptcy.

And yet this time he gains even more of the popular vote. One can only suppose that if he had nuked a few countries along the way that his popularity would be through the roof.

So who are his bases of support? It's the dumb, slack-jawed, Midwestern and Southern hicks who believe anything the government controlled media tell them, combined with the bible thumpers who believe that Bush is the second coming of Christ. That he'll lead Israel into the final conflict and them into the resulting Rapture.

Un-fucking believable.

This is truly a sad day for the world.

"I'm James Lee, and I approve this message"

The United States recently passed a grim milestone - the 1000th combat death in Iraq. To date there have been 1,170 'coalition' deaths, and over 10,000 wounded.

Would it be that they had died for a worthwhile cause. Instead their lives were snuffed out, not in the protection of their country, but in an attempt to satisfy the imperialistic ambitions of an administration intent on reshaping the middle east .

All their deaths have done is to help George Bush install Iyad Allawi as the Iraqi president.

A man who was a former member of Hussein's party, who days before the sham transfer of power was witnessed executing six prisoners while his detachment of American security guards looked on in stunned silence.

A man who while on the CIA and MI6 payroll conveniently claimed (later disproved) that Iraq could launch devastating attacks upon the West using weapons of mass destruction within as little as 45 minutes of preparation. A claim that was a key argument in the buildup to war.

1000 men and women have died so that the US could replace Saddam Hussein, a brutal dictator that the CIA created, funded, and supported with yet another CIA created dictator. In other words, just more of the same.

With the election coming and with Bush and Kerry running neck and neck in the polls, speculation is rampant that the Bush administration will pull an 'October Surprise'. A major announcement or event timed just prior to the election that will rally the American people around Dubya.

Leading candidates are:

• The announced capture of Osama Bin Laden. Who in reality has been held by Pakistan for months. His release pending upon a number of conditions, including the sale of numerous F16 fighters.
• A massive attack on Iran. Either assisting Israel or acting on their behalf. Despite the fact that (like Iraq) Iran is no threat to the United States.
• An 'unpreventable' terrorist attack upon US soil. Leading to the postponement of the election and derailing the democratic process.

Should Bush win another term look for the return of the draft, the continuation of perpetual war, and many more wasted lives.

"So to those Iraqis who were mistreated by members of the U.S. armed forces, I offer my deepest apology...They (Iraqi's) are truly wonderful human beings." Donald Rumsfeld

Yes, truly wonderful. So wonderful in fact that the US military regularly makes a sport out of killing them. While the US was front and centre in the media demanding that Hussein respect the Geneva Convention with respect to American POW's, they don't seem to be concerned with abiding by those same rules themselves. The Geneva Convention states that the purposeful killing of a wounded soldier is a war crime.

Here are two videos (high speed connection recommended) of American war crimes. In the first one an Apache helicopter comes across some Iraqi's acting 'suspiciously'. The pilot then goes about mowing them down with 30mm cannon fire. In the second video US troops open up on a wounded Iraqi soldier writhing on the ground.

Click here to see video

'"Wait, some movement by the truck," says the shooter. "He's wounded."
"Hit him. Hit the truck and him. Go forward," answers the officer."'

Click here to see video

"...it was a good feeling.....hell ya that was awesome. Let's do it again"

"Because we acted, torture rooms are closed, rape rooms no longer exist, mass graves are no longer a possibility in Iraq." George W. Bush

No more torture and rape rooms? Tell that to the inmates of Abu Ghraib who have been brutalized by the American guards. Twenty five inmates (so far) have been beaten to death. Others were tortured, forced to masturbate in front of female guards, had attack dogs unleashed upon them for fun, and forced to eat their meals out of toilets. Still other inmates, some as young as 12 years old were violently raped by their captors. Most of which was captured in photographs that were kept as souvenirs by the guards. In fact there was a daily contest to see who could come up with the most gruesome picture.

When the media uncovered what was happening American leaders claimed ignorance, saying they only recently found out about it. Yet the Red Cross has been complaining to US officials about abuses in both Afghanistan and Iraq for years. And this doesn't account for what's going on at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the fact that the US routinely sends prisoners to other countries such as Pakistan which employ torture during interrogations. All of which is documented and decried by Amnesty International.

Perhaps the mass graves Bush refers to are the soccer fields used to bury the more than 600 Iraqi civilians killed during the American assault on Fallujah. Or maybe he's referring to the incident during the first Gulf War in which more than 1000 Iraqi soldiers were buried alive.

"We're changing the world. And the world will be better off" George W. Bush

One can only hope that the rest of the world will not taste freedom brought at the end of an American gun...

So all the world is abuzz over Janet Jackson's exposure during the Super Bowl half time show. Celebrity gossip shows are pulling out all the stops to cover this breaking news, Tivo sales are skyrocketing, and her rack is all over the 'net. In fact, "Janet's Breast" has become the most searched phrase on Google.

In response the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is threatening legal action against MTV and CBS. Furthermore MTV has been banned from producing future shows at the Super Bowl.

Really, what's the big deal? A one second shot of someone's tit? Parents and lawmakers are outraged at that?

In an age where we are witnessing more animal extinctions in the past 20 years than in the previous millennium; where the average child watches 8,000 televised murders and 100,000 acts of violence before finishing elementary school; where by 2010 more than 71 million people in Africa will have died of AIDS; where we are slowly becoming sterile, birth defects are skyrocketing, and half of us will die of cancer - that the image on the left is what we're concerned about is what's truly outrageous.

I guess the main complaint is from parents concerned that little Johnny will be forever traumatized. How can they explain this to their precious little ones? I for one would merely inform my child that this is the sad, desperate attempt by a 37 year old trying to generate interest in her forthcoming album and that this is the only way she can compete with the whorish antics of her 20-something rivals Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. And even more likely that she is merely trying to deflect attention away from her Pedophile brother, Michael Jackson.

What's sad is that now all future 'live' broadcasts will be time delayed. No more Oscar rants from Michael Moore, no more expletives from Bono at the Golden Globe awards. Such outbursts are the only thing which makes listening to 3 hours of "I'd like to thank my lawyer" speeches bearable. Janet's lasting legacy will be no more unpredictability in the carefully choreographed crap that we're exposed to on a daily basis.