OCCUPIED COUNTRY

I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down

Oh dear, what's George up to now? Too many John Wayne films, hellfire, damnation and New American Century nonsense have surely fried the president's brain.

Yes there is, understandably, insurgency and pissed-off-ness on the rise in Iraq. But what did you expect you latter-day Crusader you?

Sorry? What was that George? Oh, you're not a Crusader. That's just the Left-Wing Commie bastards trying to make you look a twat?

Bit late for that I would've thought but, no matter. George, here's some advice from a dyed in the wool atheist.

DON'T ATTACK PLACES OF WORSHIP!

Regardless of who's in the thing. Leave it be. Withdraw. Starve the buggers out if you have to but, Mosque, Cathedral, Chapel or a Rasta 'Ganga-hut', leave the fucker well alone.

George, I'm sure you don't need me to tell you (I mean you must have hundreds of advisors), but now the Arab world has a lovely touchy-feely video of USA Helicopters firing rockets into a Mosque. A Mosque! A Video that will be replayed as much as the first Twin-Tower images were in the West. Are you *really* as stupid as 'Have I Got News For You' makes you out to be?

All I've heard since is 'kick-ass' speeches from the commanders and politicians that are doing absolutely nothing to ease the situation. You're digging a hole so deep you may never re-emerge. Wake up. Even Richard Nixon saw sense eventually and started the process that ended the Vietnam debacle.

But, then again, apart from being a lying, conniving, thoroughly unlikable main-chancer, at least Tricky had some intelligence. He recognised a dead end when he saw one. God knows he'd met enough before he swore allegiance in the thin January sunshine of 1968.

Mind you, by the same token, he probably only paid lip-service to the Big-Man.

I reckon Tone will be on his knees again next month when he visits the White House. George will get his election piccies and Tone will surely be praying that Kerry does the business come November.

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Another great night for Euro-Champ upsets. Milan well and truly done over after leading 4-1 before the second leg. It's been a funny year football-wise. Millwall in the FA Cup Final, Chelsea whupping the Arse's arse last night and City, having won nowt, are now struggling to avoid the drop. Unbelievable.