Just a couple of points seeing as the 'media backlash' against today's unprecedented peace rallies has already begun (two million in London alone, another million in Rome and several thousand in New York...see, I told you that not all Americans were spineless fools). Firstly, following the original Gulf war when the objective was to get Saddam out of Kuwait and fell short of toppling him from power, the Americans backed the Kurdish uprising in the south of Iraq hoping that Saddam's government would collapse under their revolt. The Kurds were making extremely good progress and had claimed several cities when, for no particular reason but true to form, the Americans suddenly got bored and decided to remove their backing. Naturally Saddam moved in, killing thousands...possibly millions. And the same old shit returned to Iraq.

Any regime change in Iraq must be internal (the idea of an American general taking control of Baghdad being extremely unsettling). And the only way for an uprising of the populace (let's face it...nobody wants Saddam in power) would be to lift the stupid fucking UN sanctions that, far from crippling Saddam, are just crippling the Iraqi people, and then organise and actively help those trapped inside the regime to overthrow it. Time and time again the American and British administrations have let Iraq down and hurt its people. Saddam has taken his opportunities (granted courtesy of the great Western fuck-ups) to further compound the issue. Yes he's a bastard. Yes he needs taking out. No, there shouldn't be a war! It'll destabilise the Middle East, result in hundreds of thousands of innocent people being killed, cause further rifts between so called 'Christian' and 'Muslim' nations and plunge the world into an ever deepening crisis.

There have been some excellent quotes floating around today...Tariq Ali for example: "When a democratic regime fails to listen to its people then it's time for a regime change. Tony Blair must go!" and the reporter for Channel 4 news: "Today the largest focus group imaginable descended on London." Get your head from Bush's sphincter Blair and instead of conversing with the chimps try listening to your own electorate before democracy is completely dead.