and make it very clear to Congress that they must impeach. Once again, I don't think most US citizens really yet realise the extent to which your country's good name has been sullied by the people running the show there. It is made worse by the fact that it is government of, by, and for the people, and if the people don't renounce the truly odious behaviour that the US has engaged in over the last six years (ever since they got a good excuse to do so) your reputation will remain firmly in the midden with the likes of Pinochet... except that Pinochet could only dream about the power wielded by Washington and the ability to waste that many people who got in his way.

I mean, look, the highest ranking officer charged only got convicted of the crime of discussing the crimes in Abu Ghraib in public; in other words, he got nailed for talking about what happened, not for any responsibility he may have had as the guy in charge of the unit when the crimes were occurring. Nope, no crime there except maybe the crime of helping America's new torture policies become public knowledge.

For example, when are people going to realise that GWB doesn't believe in God? He cannot possibly believe in God, Heaven, or Hell, because seeing as he's personally responsible for the deaths of nearly half a million people, not to mention coveting his neighbour's possesions (Iraqi Oil), theft of US treasure on a scale never before seen, false witness about WMD and the real reason why the US invaded Iraq, there's only one destination for him in his professed theology. Seeing as he doesn't seem unduly concerned about it, the only possible answer is that he's heathen, and only professes to believe for political expediency, which also puts him in violation of commandment #1.

Why hasn't the Christian community in the US discussed this? It's pretty much right down there with the seeming inability of the Muslim religious leadership to condemn Sudan for its strictly racist war against black muslims in Darfur... and that, my friends, is about where most of the world places the US right now, down in the cellar with people like Pinochet and the janjaweed of Sudan.

Seriously, the only way this can get fixed is if a LOT of you get up and fix it. The citizenry needs to put a million people on the Mall in Washington and let it be known that they are not complicit in the crimes their country has engaged in since the turn of the century, and to demand an accounting and a settling. There are people who deserve the death penalty far more than most on death row in your prisons, and they are running the country into the dirt.

was getting on about when he was yakking away a couple of millenia back.