We Have Friday!

I'm glad the weekend is almost here. Don't forget the big party tonight. We kick off around 9:00 and I imagine it will last until 4:00 or 5:00 (though I probably won't)! Come on over and help us stock the bar. That is the only thing I have going on this weekend. Last night I had my final presentation for school! I have one more small paper and then this year long program is over! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I may be using my exclamation points haphazardly but I'm happy about it!!!

In my last Friday notes I need to toot my own horn for a second, and point out the utter ignorance of Donald Rumsfeld. I honestly can't stop chuckling about this - it is the only reaction I can have any more. I honestly don't understand what is going through his mind, and the anger is gone because we've seen it time and time again, and that anger is being replaced with laughter. Anyway, I mentioned in a post on July 26 that "The so-called War on Terror has done nothing except create more terror. Insurgency in Iraq has not decreased and gets stronger every day. With the war in Iraq, our enemies in other countries that we are not fighting are developing leaders and gaining followers that are creating new terrorists all over the region. Impressionable young people are seeing their neighboring country of Iraq get worse every day - homes destroyed, children and other people killed, jobs eliminated - and they can look to only a couple of places to place blame - the United States and its allies. The terrorists are winning this war, and we are not doing what should be done to stop it, instead we are fueling it. It's too late to turn back now.

Look at London right now. England was our #1 supporter in this war. Would these attacks have happened if they hadn't supported the U.S.? Would that city be living in fear? I think not...Accountability is not in the vocabulary of this administration."

I truly believe this and it was confirmed by Bin Laden's #2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, when he said that the London bombings occured because of Tony Blair and his support of the United States. To me that is a direct hit on why it happened, and that's all there is to it.

Well, I guess I'm wrong. Rumsfeld somehow sees it differently. He says Britain attacks were not tied to the U.S. alliance, that the U.S. and allies 'did not provoke terrorists.' What? This is a direct response to al-Zawahiri? As I wrote that the anger kicked in. OK, I'm done. I'm pissed off now. Read it here.