People, we have a problem...

I've just been reading the morning news and to justify my political diatribe on specific Western governments, I was suitably horrified by the US's new annoucement about Iraq, Ian Blair's speech and the general behavior of the London Metropolitan police. What the %*$@^ kind of response is "that's dreadful"???!!! Hello! *knock knock* Is anyone in there? You 're responsible for the first degree murder of an innocent man simply because of your ridiculous sanctioning of the harebrained shoot-to-kill policy and all you can say is "that's dreadful"? Are you even human?

And if that does not have you over-brimming with disgust, you'll find that the parties involved within the force are now playing a childish game of "it's not our fault, it's their's" in meager attempts to clear their names of such an unconscionable act. Does it matter whose fault it is now? Seriously! I hope none of the armed police in attendance that day will be able to sleep peacefully for the rest of their lives. I can only imagine what the de Menezes family are feeling now. In truth, T and I were discussing this the other day and we both agreed that Ian Blair should be thinking about resigning. Of course, this is unlikely to happen since he's blatantly refused to do so but this disgraceful act needs closure and someone has to take the blame. The worst part is that Blair actually tries to condemn the media for focusing on the wrong news. He actually has the nerve to compare de Menezes death with the deaths which took place during the bombings. I have never seen anything so preposterous. The nerve of that insolent man! To insinuate that the public is less concerned of one disaster over another is just ludicrous.

I have only one thing to say about the US: Have you not caused enough destruction in Iraq already? Is it not enough that civilians in Iraq don't even have the bare necessities of life, that they have had to fight for food, because of the war that you forced on them? I find the entire situation laugable because now even the Americans themselves are indignant about how long their troops have to stay in Iraq to try and right a wrong they caused which they had no business in being in the first place. Who gave Bush the right to play world police? I'm definitely with France on this one. But then again, one really can't blame the poor country since they have a president with a slightly unhinged ultimate aim of evangelizing the world. Now that is really scary - thank the God(s) for China!