You clearly don't realize that what Obama has been doing for the past two years is cleaning up after the Bush administration. To quote a recent article on Scoop.co.nz "This is the guy who took a massive Clinton administration budget surplus and gave it away to his friends at the top of the tax bracket, a move that laid the groundwork for the current economic calamity. This is the guy who breezed past a pointed warning about Osama bin Laden, terrorism and airplanes on August 6th, 2001, because he was on vacation and couldn't be bothered.* Because of this (please do you research before you attempt to formulate a rebuttal to this) George W Bush is directly responsible for the now unsupportable economy and 'state of terror' that has swept America. The Athenians believed that the pinnacle and principal desire for ALL people should be taking an active roll in their governance. They were a society that was built on principals of equality, transparency and sound reasoning. America is a nation governed by religion (by definition, a BELIEF, not a fact!) and a corrupt political system were lobbyist's are connected to committee members in Government who receive substantial payments to endorse and recommend particular products, contracts, contractors, services and utilities to administrators. There is NO true transparency. That won't be any different under a republican or democratic Government. For more information on what Obama has done for America see: whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com *see www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/s00141.htm

"This war cannot be won." I couldn't agree more.In a movie called "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" theres a fantastic scene where the leader of the invading army, the Turks, is meeting with the "governor" of the besieged city (forget it's name) and discussing who's turn it is to surrender (they have been at war for years, repeatedly surrendering then reengaging in combat to turn a profit on arms and fear mongering). While it is a fantastic piece of satire by Terry Gilliam, it also poses some very accurate parodies of what the politics behind wars are like. Wars are profitable for the Govt's involved, they get to sell arms and acquire natural resources (in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan; fossil fuels). They can then set up a puppet Govt which is "democratic" and continue to abuse the country in questions natural resources while claiming to have been "patriotic" (or as i like to call it, loyalty to the point of stupidity) by "liberating" these "savages" from "insurgent" threats (i.e the people's who's home you invaded who want you to GTFO). How many of you would be pissed if your country was invaded and it's people abused and murdered all for the sake of natural resources, or any other reason for that matter? (im looking at you America). I know i would be, enough so that i would likely become part of any "insurgent" movements. Western nations should GTFO of countries they have no governance over and instead focus their energies on reducing CO2 emissions (western nations are by far and away the biggest culprits and all because banks, Govt's and the worlds elite business people are greedy bastards who aren't willing to sacrifice anything for their own creature comforts). It disgusts me that i am classified as a human along with these people. A misanthrope now and always, Tycus.