What is a Wedding Singer Doing at a Safe House?

This Sunday once again marked an extremely bad day for those who support the war in Iraq. Yet another 60 Minutes interview, this time with retired General Anthony Zinni, highlighted the total incompetence with which the Bush Administration has pursued Woodrow Wilson’s dream of a world made safe for democracy. The last time we did this the world got Hitler and Stalin, what will it get this time?

Also, a videotape of the wedding the US Army has said never took place turned up along with the inconveniently dead body of a famous Iraqi wedding singer. A military spokesman said “There was no evidence of a wedding: no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings (the attack took place at 3AM maybe someone cleaned up before they went to bed) one would expect from a wedding celebration," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Saturday."There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too." So, I guess those little children on slabs in the morgue and beds in the hospital must have been bad people.

I do not know about the rest of you but I for one am getting sick and tired of my government continually lying to me. And, it depresses me no end that the people who rule over me, with an increasingly iron fist, are so stupid that they actually think they will get away with a lie like this.

And if the above was not enough, a story in the British media indicates that the American policy of shoot first ask questions later has made British military officers very reluctant to serve under American command. The story quotes a British Army source: “Seeking to adopt normal low-profile British tactics in the wake of American aggressiveness would be difficult enough," said the military source,"but to have to go in under US operational command would be a disaster." Now if we could only get our own soldiers out from being under US operational command.