Here's what I'm thinking:
1) It's no great secret that Bush was less-than-enthusiastic about the Blair agenda: Africa/Global Poverty and Global Warming.
2) It came as no shock to me (in fact I predicted it before I read it) that Bush would say, "The war on terror goes on." (Actually the quote I predicted was "The war on terror continues." Close enough, eh?)
3) Isn't it convenient that the host of the meeting was forced by emergency to leave and take his agenda with him?
4) Also convenient that it would leave the protestors in confusion. How can you protest global poverty in Scotland when a horrible terrorist attack has just taken place on your own soil? All of us who support the goals of the ONE campaign agree that poverty is the soil from which terrorism grows, but this is an immediate, close-to-home tragedy, as opposed to the long-term plans ONE is trying to promote.
5) Finally, this tidbit caught my attention from the first article I read:
"A group describing itself as affiliated with Al Qaeda took responsibility for the attack on an Arabic-language Web site but British police said they were unable to confirm the authenticity of the claim. The group called itself the Secret Al Qaeda Jihad Organization in Europe and said the attacks were to avenge British involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."
A conveniently al Q'aida-esque claim, yet so vague. Why so vague? Hell, even Osama wasn't vague (even though we all know he was paid to not be vague), nor were the terrorists who hit Madrid last year, once they revealed themselves.
My one hope is that, like Madrid, this prompts huge demonstrations against the Blair regime which has committed British troops to Iraq, and helps to get Britian out of Iraq. If Shrub or Shrub's crony's did have any involvement here, then the blowback from that should be pretty huge, especially as the Downing Street Memos are still at the top of Rep. Conyer's TO DO list.
The whole just leaves me sick to my stomach. That and the Time's gall in comparing Judith Miller to Rosa Parks. I wrote them a scathing letter in response to their disgusting editorial today. Not a good day. Especially for those poor folk in London killed and injured and their families. Just like 9/11, this may prove to be another mass murder on the heads of certain muckity mucks and I sure as hell wish they were in jail so they could stop getting away with these murders. (Let's see, what's the count now? 3,000 NYC, 300+ soldiers in Afghanistan, uncounted but probably hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan, 1700+ soldiers in Iraq, 100,000+ Iraqi civilians, almost 200 in Madrid*, and now close to 40 in London. Did I miss any? Oh, yeah, 200+ at the Pentagon and in PA on 9/11. And this doesn't count the hundreds of thousands wounded and maimed everywhere.)
* I count Madrid because even though that appeared to be substantiated as al Q'aida, it was in retaliation for Spain's involvement in Iraq, which is a Bush administration baby, of course.
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