d_i_r_t_y's Journal: john howard is a cheat, a liar, and a fool

john howard, the prime minister of australia, is a fool if he thinks that australians can be as easily swayed by the smoke/mirror/disinformation tactics so successfully employed by the US government on its own people.

from the article:
Mr Howard said the victory in Iraq had made the world a little safer from terrorism[...]
bullshit.

"I can predict now that the next time there's a terrorist attack, the perpetrators will say it's in reprisal for what America and the coalition did in Iraq - I want to predict that right now," he said.

hmmm. complete contradiction aside, what planet did little johnny arrive from where (unprovoked) violence ever prevented further violence and hatred?

the only way to stop terrorism is to stop indulging in it. in using military power - terror - to police and manipulate the countries of the world, the US is plunging us back into some kind of feudal, militaristic dark age.

with the US now turning its bully and propaganda tactics on syria, for supposedly possessing WMDs (how about finding some in the country you just invaded first hey?), i'd like to know when the US is planning on divesting itself of its own WMDs. course, it will never get rid of its massive number of nukes - it needs them to bully people with - but how about ditching its biological and chemical weapons? how can the US not expect to be hated when it continues to employ such school-yard bully tactics and blatant double standards?

and what use is a democracy if the government does not obey or even listen to the will of its people? what use is freedom of speech and of the press if the press is little more than governmental cheerleading?