On July 7th, after suicide bombings on four London trains and a bus were carried out, British Prime Minister Tony Blair left the G8 meetings in Gleneagles, Scotland, returned to London and made a statement from Downing Street.

Visibly shaken, but carefully composed for the cameras, he could earnestly try to assure us that these people, the terrorists, are “attacking our way of life,” and that we shall not let them, and that we, the British people must refuse to change their way of life, and so they would not and so on. He expects us to just "pecker up," and somehow ignore the danger he has helped create?

The British Home Secretary talked to the media after the attacks and buttressed the tired and insultingly irresponsible argument of “Tory Bliar.” On British TV, the reporter was able to ask a few pointed questions about the link between the attacks and Britain’s involvement in the occupation of Iraq, mentioning the Madrid bombings and how Spain became a target like other “coalition” members because of the government’s involvement, which in this case should be considered from an international law standpoint as something more like complicity, in sending troops to Iraq.

Bliar’s US counterpart, George W. “Bushit,” predictably vowed to defeat the terrorists “on their own territory,” which conveniently plays into his plan to play the deadly excursionary game in Iraq, indefinitely. He expects us all to “stay the course” in this illegal, illegitable and disastrous war that is being waged for morally bankrupt reasons.

There seems to be no way for Mr. Bushit to concede to facts or to anything resembling the reality of the situation; that a brutal occupation by US troops and those who support or encourage is the crux of the crisis and that they should get out at once; and therefore they could save thousands if not hundreds of thousands of more lives.

Now I understand why George W. Botch told Billy Graham before this massive misadventure: “There won’t be any casualties.” He’s right, you will not see any dead US soldiers. I did a search on the photo wire for "dead US soldier" over the past 5 years, and there weren’t any. Of course, there are an enormous amount of images of “dead Iraqis.” Although we may feel for the victims of this war, in the big picture Iraqis are pictured losing lives. In this war, if They are losing lives it must mean we are winning.; that is how the “allied forces” think about it. Don’t forget Fallujah, and how school and hospitals were raided, children used as human shields, the use of cluster bombs. No wonder horror movies aren’t making it at the box office this summer.

“We must be tough on terror” - this is what these corrupted politicians urge us. But that depends on your definition of terror. Who kills, who maims, who tortures? That is the Terrorist. Noam Chomsky must be lauded for his statement on the US is a terrorist state. Five years ago, who would have thought it?

This so-called “War on Terror” is just a diversionary tactic to avoid addressing the real problem: our attack on Muslims. Oh yes, they pay lip service to Islam, but the truth is they don’t know jack about Islam, it’s like a pagan or a heathen to them, even though the foundations of Christianity and Islam have much in common. The Bush cabal is made up of an army of fundamentalist, proselytizing megalomaniacs, and by all appearances bent on self-destruction.

Someone should swab the toilets in Congress and the White House, like they did at the European Parliament, finding “substantial amounts” of coke. Jesus, what are these people on?

The Home Secretary Charles Clark’s said that even if we weren’t in Iraq, or even whatever the situation, these terrorists would be attacking “our way of life,” and looking for the bomb’s perpetrators was “like looking for a needle in a haystack.” Blah blah blah. Fortunately, the Foreign Minister and London Mayor Ken Livingstone have a little more of the sense the British are supposed to have, in acknowledging the connection between the attacks and the war in Iraq.

As the insightful and witty British MP George Galloway commented in a separate interview on the Home Secretary Charles Clark’s remarks, “Only a fool would believe that” the London Massacre was just an attack on our way of life. Galloway made the courageous and contentious argument that Londoners were reaping Blair’s involvement in Iraq.

But hopefully, the British people aren't the twits their leaders take them for. They must be aware of what their leaders refuse to admit publicly: defeat, self-defeat; even remorse for the hundreds of thousands now that we’ve killed through every imaginable means. Where is it?

We've doubled the injustice to continue to play a leading role in the ongoing wholesale deaths of Iraqis. Fifty today, 40 yesterday, 200 last weekend. Where is the Western leaders’ sense of humanity? We need a Philippino-style “People Power” movement to overthrow our respective military regimes.

Everyone knows that the attacks in London were because of the UK’s involvement in Iraq; a third said it was the main factor; overall, two thirds said it was a factor according to a recent poll. Unlike Americans, British people often have critical thinking skills. People know the war in Iraq is making life in England, and the world, less safe.

The UK is not the only one being “targeted,” (note the reversal from offense to defensive stance); Denmark and Italy and other members of the Coalition of the {Un}willing {if You Actually Asked the Public} were similarly warned that al-Qaeda would now be targeting them.

"Bliar" and "Bushit" want us all to forget about this constant danger for which they are largely responsible? Hopefully, people are able to hear the perspectives of truthtellers, individuals like British MP George Galloway, who said: “The only way we can be safe from them is if we reduce the number of people out there who want to hurt us…it’s a swamp that we have created.” As Galloway said, it is the civilians who are having to pay the price of Tory Bliar’s involvement in Iraq.

Unfortunately, Interior Minister Clarke and others, now Australia has followed suit, have proposed new anti-terrorist measures, and the US has renewed the Patriot Act, pushed through with little deliberation in the wake of the London attacks.

Yesterday, the Metropolitan police shot and killed an innocent Brazilian in the tube by shooting him in the head and shoulders several times, driving home how none of us is safe - until we fix the problem, not the facts.

For what is a terrorist? Someone who inspires terror in others for their brutality, their cruelty and death-threatening activity. That pretty much sums up the US foreign policy under the current misadministration.

We must not give up. We must not cease in pressuring both and all governments to withdraw, to give up their desperation for oil fields and geopolitical power. And there are a lot of pullouts to accomplish, from the wall in the Gaza Strip, Afghanistan, Haiti, hell, how about wherever our our —scratch that “our” — rather, the US' harmful influences aren’t wanted?

In fact, maybe we should designate an International Pullout Day. If you have a country that you’ve invaded, on this day, everyone withdraws at once, in solidarity. Sounds good to me.

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