If only rain was all we had to worry about...

Not being able to get online for so long must be one of my biggest bugbear at the moment, although if I tried I am sure I would find a lot more to have a go at, such as the Great British Bank Holiday weather, rain, rain and yet more rain. I can say though that it is good for the garden, or more importantly my allotment plot, which should by now be sprouting in every direction, mainly upwards I hope. Taking of sprouts, I have some of those to plant out this week too, should it stop raining.

I guess with what is happening in China at the moment and the ongoing risk of floods from rainfall and bursting damns following the earthquake then I do not have too much to moan about, at least they have opened up their doors a little unlike the humanitarian crisis that is being exasperated by the Burmese military junta who continue to mess with the lives of their own people.

The UK have lost yet another soldier in Afghanistan and the Americans, on their remembrance day of yesterday, have some 4,000+ more to mourn since the war in Iraq.

And to any ‘peace keeper’ employed throughout the world and abusing children in their care right now – may your knob burn like fire before weeping with gangrene and dropping off in your hand when you next go to the toilet.

Bush's view: Iraq 5 years on

Says it all really...

[Steve Bell: Guardian Unlimited]

Our mistake, soz God

Politicians will rarely, if ever admit, to making a mistake therefore it should come as no surprise that when a mistake on the scale of that made when Messrs Bush and Blair took the decision to invade Iraq both will continue to deny any wrong doing, after all it will affect their earning potential after office should they ever do so.

Even now Bush continues, as no doubt Blair will, to defend their catastrophic blunder into war as can be seen in this video posted on the Guardian website, or this cartoon from the same paper.

If neither of these two men can be bought to account for their decision then perhaps we could be allowed to ‘water-board’ them until they admit to the error of their ways.

Failing that, perhaps a rendition flight into Iran? No, I am too humane for either of these options so perhaps bring them before some of the best interrogators this country has to offer, as in serious journalists, in order for them to be continuously grilled, metaphorically, until they are backed so far into a corner they cannot possibly use their evasive skills, or just plain stupid answers in the case of Bush, to wheedle their way out and admit to the truth.

They should have nothing to fear because both admit to having God on their side and I would not mind either of them using him in their defence, provided he made a personal appearance that is.

Opening old wounds, good

At long last a debate into the War in Iraq has begun, albeit it on BBC Newsnight. These debates follow short dramas based around the some of the main protagonists in the UK in the build up to war, 10 days to war. Unfortunately it is much too late to reverse the decision to go to war but perhaps it will open the wounds enough to bring those involved, namely T. Blair to account.