"The fact that Bush got overwhelming support for all his mis-adventures from US Congress and Senate has exposed some truths about the *majority* of the US politicans:

. they have not learned their lessons from Vietnum

. they are arrogant bully with fear and loathing for Arabs/muslims while lusting after the middle-east oil

. they have little regard for non-American lives particularly non-Western lives

. they have forgotten the value of individual liberty (thus allowing the draconian laws to pass)

. they have low ability to critical thinking (thus allowing themselves to be fooled by Bush's propaganda)

. they are gullible and greedy (thus allowed themselves to be manipulated by neo-con agenda and military-industrial complex who push for this war).

The disastrous failure of the war is not going to fix the above character flaws of US politians, unless they start to really examin their past and present foreign policies. I hope US general public force them to do so."

Yes to all of the above; however, in these respects, I am afraid US politicians reflect their constituency, the "US general public". After all, nearly half the population voted for Bush in the first place, despite there being plenty of evidence that he would be a disaster; and half the population voted for him in 2004, despite his administration having demonstrated itself to be not only a disaster but completely adrift in fantasyland and actively rejecting the "reality based community" in favor of courting the fantasyland vote. The US public is not good at soul searching, taking responsibility for the horrible consequences of their behavior, and deep spiritual or character changes; they just buy books about it instead, or go to AA. They think if you tell them something they don't want to hear, you're lying. Apparently, most Americans think when salesmen want to butter you up, they lie to you that your kids are all just average; you only know they're risking telling you the truth when they tell you all your kids are brilliant and beautiful.

Jeezus. That is the most obvious "not bomb" I've ever seen. I'd be more worried about a cell phone or notebook computer than this item.

"Let's not forget that Boston happens to be the only city that panicked when an artist set up flashing signs "

Well last month New Haven panicked when a local impromptu after-work bicycle race group laid out a course in the Ikea parking lot with flour. "Aggh! White powder! Anthrax!" etc. The city has kindly decided not to demand recompense for the expense of treating a bag of flour as anthrax, but the dastardly perpetrators still face federal charges.

As we saw last month, it is perfectly possible to pass through airport security and get on a plane with a marmoset under your hat. Yeah, we're totally safe now.

Well, of course, it makes perfect sense.

9/11 made Giuliani a hero in the media. That caused him to think about running for president. That changed his views on gun control.

"some fucktard who's trained as a blacksmith and who won his first election (mayor of Tehran) with a 6% voter turnout, and who literally sees ghosts and spirits and believes himself to be the messiah or he who facilitates the messiah"

Why, how silly those third worlders are. Compare such a pathetic caricature of a leader to our mighty war president; a "fucktard" who failed upward his whole life because of his family and became leader of his country only because a rightwing court stepped in to declare that it was unfair to actually recount all the ballots in the state of which his brother was governor, on the grounds that it "does in my view threaten irreparable harm to the petitioner [Bush], and to the country, by casting a cloud upon what he claims to be the legitimacy of his election." (Justice Antonin Scalia); who not only believes himself chosen by God to lead a 'crusade' against the 'Axis of Evil', but also that nobody who does not believe in Christ will enter heaven.

"So why would he be forbidden from visiting Ground Zero?"

Why would he want to visit Grond Zero? Come on. The Iranian government are not idiots. They know damn well that a substantial portion of the "all-them-towelheads-is-our-enemy" American public could be just as easily convinced that Iran was behind 9/11 as they were convinced Iraq was behind 9/11, with similar consequences, so it behooves them to make as much public display portraying themselves as opposed to the whole thing as possible. And, by the same token, if the Bushies are to keep their options open regarding nuking Iran, they have to keep the picture of Ahmadinejad placing a wreath at Ground Zero out of the media, so as to keep the public properly befuddled.

Yeah.

"It's the Jews who are to blame for the War in Iraq".

"It's the Jews who are to blame for the War in Iran".

See, if the US had attacked Iran in the first place, I'd give you the benefit of the doubt; Iran is a powerful enemy of Israel and at very least a constant source of conflict viz Hezbollah. But anybody who knows anything about the Middle East, including the Israeli public, has been saying since before "Bush Attacks!" that Hussein was a toothless lion who posed about as much threat to Israel as the Nation of Islam. If the US were doing Israel's military bidding, they'd have chosen Iran to make a beacon of democracy etc. not Iraq.