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I heard that sexy Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of state has come to blighty from the good old U S of A
. I believe she came to Blackpool yesterday if I am not mistaken .Much was said about how much she was a Beatle fan and was so looking forward to visiting parts of England where the fab four worked, went to school,sang ,ate or breathed ! (how normal she sounds ) so much for sixties music changing the world and art influencing people for a better life. What has any of this to do with Blackpool ?, I don't know.

Condi , a real example of a successful woman, powerful, independent ,intelligent ,
beautiful and yes like many women who have reached the top of a man's world sadly no different ; tragically human.



I heard also that there was a contingent of anti Iraq war demonstrators against her visit . Good on them ! she has blood on her hands , the only difference between her like and the hard core terrorist is that she cuts throats by proxy : A true 'board room guerilla ' as the great peace campaigner Bruce Kent once dubbed them.

The only reason that guerillas like condi, Geoerge W Bush and our very own Tony Blitler are not in the dock charged with genocide and other war crimes of the highest degree is that they run the whole show!

But let's be pragmatic It is an empire; The American empire that our soldiers are unwittingly serving , and what's wrong with an empire? We had one once. The British and Greek empires were possibly two of the greatest empires of all history which left the world with many great changes for the better, eminent individuals, superb art works and revolutionary thinkers and creative minds who influenced the
world's view of itself.

Where would we be if not under the wing of this American empire? we may have been subjugated by some extreme totalitarian , fanatical superstitious despot .
Look at the great things America has given us in the modern world this very internet where freedom of speech flourishes is just one of many ,I leave you all to ponder on your own favourites .

So it is alright for dissident lefties (myself included) to pour invective over the idea that is America, yet what do we have to replace it with? I have relatives there , and my late father who visited his brother there on various occasions loved the people, their way of life and the vastness of its culture as well as its geography.

So what can we say of Condi ?: loved the Beatles , yes but finds this compatible with destroying the lives of millions of poor people who have a bloody history of suffering foreign involvement by big industrial powers from the beginning of the last century or even earlier. Iraq, the land in which the very first civilisations flourished and gave the world many things including the beginnings of literacy and numeracy amongst others.



What do you know that we don't Condi? Is it something that if we knew too would make us want to see more charred bodies and the utter devastation and humiliation of millions? It must be something profound..I remember so clearly the genuine look on our Tony's face when he was pleading (before the Iraq invasion) , saying something like :, 'Look , I know something you don't , I am doing this for the good of our society, you see I have seen the dossier ( remember the sexy dossier?) and if we don't act violently now, we have a new Hitler in our midst!'
The rest is history unfolding scarily in front of us and more importantly the real victims who the great journalist John Pilger describes as 'non people' (in the way they are portrayed by our media as not really significant).

I remember the chilling maxim of Goebels of the Nazi's who said when stirring up hatred against the Jews that ' A lie is only a lie , but if we repeat it enough times it becomes the truth' .

How sinister and true that statement is . Do you remember when the war was beginning how the idea had to be sold? irrational , emotional , aggressive and deceitful rhetoric was used by the honourable ones in parliament not to mention the spineless who knew and kept quiet ; equally corrupt .

Maybe Condi is right and she really does know what is in the best interests of the people all over the world? .........Or maybe her psyche has been severely damaged by those subversive Beatle lyrics such as 'Happiness is a warm gun Mamma ....?'

That , only the God of war ,Ares knows .........

Peace be with you

Problems with blogging

Well I have been trying to download a picture ,or is it called uploading when you send an image to the web ? : but with no success , I really do find this simple blogging process quite difficult .How do all these smug bloggers do it? Please help me someone out there.



This is becoming meaningless in the worst possible sense. I promise it will be worth checking but I have not done my homework and fell for the 'SIMPLE ' promotion from Google, with due respect .
Bye for now.