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such as "What about Rumsfeld?", "What about the "CIA?", "What about the others in the gang of which Graner was the ringleader?". Well, what about Rasputin while we're at it and his role in the weakening of Czardom? Btw, I got my information on Graner's domestic and other behaviour from "The Washington Post" and did not pluck it out of the air or from my own fevered imaginings. Graner was angry with Linddy England for admitting to the "cruel and unnatural" treatment of Muslim men in Abu Ghraib, a vindictive exercise of power in which she and her clearly exulted. She has a child by Graner and I wonder if he's ever shown any interest in that child or if everything revolves around his ego and his own need for HIS parents to throw themselves into the fray on his behalf. By any standards, civilised or other, the man is a sadist but should probably be released from solitary confinement if he's not a danger to other prisoners and to himself. If he got murdered in prison there could be more re-writing of history and then we'd see Graner the Martyr emerge from this sordid tale.
Barack will be US President in about six weeks time, elected by the American people, so that's good enough for anyone who has faith in the electoral system. We don't always get what we want and there's a furious row going on in Britain just now about suggestions that Parliament is being subverted by the police while we're being hectored by our own government, a bunch of clowns, and the EU bureaucrats in Brussels to vote again on a referendum to which we said "No" last May. We enraged French President Sarkozy when we, a tiny country with a vital vote, put a stop to his gallop in extending the European Union further eastward. As a character in one of Sean 0'Casey's plays grumbled "The whole world is in a state of chassis"; for "chassis" read "chaos".
I didn't drop the suet balls but tied them on to trees. Placing them on the ground would invite visits from mice and rats. You must be a man, Confucius. In general, women have more sense. I saw HRC on television last evening. She was glowing and Barack was beaming while he said lovely things about her. They were only fooling us all the time by pretending to despise each other but those games have been going on from time immemorial. I'm off now, with many other things to do rather than indulging in raillery and disputaion on Salon.
