I was struck by a couple of comments posted on Bristol Indymedia; "Turkeys don't vote for Christmas but Consumerists of Consumas voted for Tony Blair. Let's bring back the true meaning of Christmas and work for an end to war and exploitation in the new year!" Which is a fair point, except that most of us, if not for the festive side of xmas would bother with it, as another pointed out; "Over the next 36 hours [over 24th Dec!], a very small minority of Bristolians, perhaps as few as three percent, will stagger out of their homes and head to a local building know as a church."

Given how nonreligious we are, its odd that our destiny should be intertwined with a guy who talks to god, indeed, god told him to invade Iraq...




A mural on the wall of the chapel at Abu Ghraib. Psalm 60-12: "Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies."

Bu$h said yesterday; "We're making darn good progress [in Iraq]."

No, but yer, but...



One Brit was killed and four were wounded in a roadside bombing in Basra on the 20th.



The commander of the American occupiers and the American ambassador got a jolt in Tikrit on the 22nd when a mortar exploded near a ceremony to handover a base to the U.S.-installed government which they were attending.



An Iraqi detainee screams "Allah" while tied down in a "humane restraint chair" at the maximum security section of the Abu Ghraib Prison October 28, 2005 on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. His jailers, U.S. Army military police, said that he was being punished for disrespecting them, and that he would spend 2 hours in the chair as punishment. The suspected insurgent, a juvenile, had earlier been moved to the maximum security section of the prison for 30 days for attacking a guard in another section of the facility.



A juvenile in a solitary confinement cell. He was being punished for "talking through a fence to detainees in an adjacent section."



Searching for bodies in the rubble after the bombing, which hit a house and killed 6 people including two children. The military claimed that it one of its spy machines had spotted two men digging a hole by a road and followed them to a house; the house, and everyone in it, was then bombed.

Remember - God told him to do it. Just as he told us to go hog-wild in Broadmead and Cribs with our credit cards.

Praise be.

Source: Infoshop.org 1 and 2