As everyone knows by now, evidently a number of Marines in Iraq took umbrage at having one of their members killed by a roadside bomb - the ever-popular IED - and took out their ire by summarily gunning down a few civilians. Now, what do you think the odds are that the U.S. will turn over the accused Marines and the evidence to an Iraqi court for trial? After all, surely the sign of a free and democratic society - the thing Dubya keeps saying his whole war is aimed at providing Iraq with - is a sound justice system. Would the chances of the accused in this case be any worse than those of the people currently held at Guantanamo, or in various unknown prisons in the Middle East, at the behest of Dubya and his version of the U.S. government?

Meanwhile, in Europe, last bastion (more or less) of civilisation, another quiet "No, no, no" to George & Co.

I still can't figure out why it's so hard for America to collectively say the word "Impeach". They had no problem when a blow-job was involved, but, now that they're all being royally (and that does seem to be George's dreamed-of adjective) screwed, all is quiet. This moron and his handlers are destroying a potentially great country, and its citizens are just letting him do it. I dunno. Anybody tested the water lately? Quaaludes? It's all mysterious and just too depressing.

I've got to stop reading the news.