Bush was just being manipulated, we learn now...

Everybody knew that Bush was a religious fanatic, right? Yeah. But he has an excuse! He was not intelligent enough to know he was being manipulated into what Cheney and Rumsfeld wanted him to do:

Recently, GQ magazine revealed that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attached warlike Bible verses and Iraq battle photos to war reports he hand-delivered to Bush. One declared: “Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground.”

Read the whole article, it's scary!

If you haven't read this post yet, it's now time

Much noise has been made about President Obama. Forget for a minute that he is black. The question is: will anything change in his foreign policy or treatment of under-served and exploited people in the US? The answer, Chomsky suggests and I agree, is NO!

For change to really happen we need more than a black, rock-star president, we need a president with BALLS! Can Barack show some BALLS and really change who benefits from the American system?

The last time a major western, pro-US country tried a rock star for a leader (Blair in UK) it was the people that lost, not the big earners or CEO's!