I went to an interview Friday morning. Sitting in a room with four other people, none of us had met each other. Someone mentioned the US war in Iraq, and all order fell apart. Everyone was angrily denouncing the disgusting American actions, CNN's Madden-style
coverage of the war, "Shock and Awe".

Where did the Yanks lose control of the message? It's not like they haven't asked us to suspend disbelief in the past. When we were told by the White House that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11, we quickly accepted that as the truth despite the complete lack of evidence. That's just a measure of how much trust and respect the majority of people have always had for the US government.

But today, as Donald Rumsfeld answered reporter's questions at the Pentagon, you could hear the accusatory tone in their voices, the angry and defensive tone in his. CNN is avoiding interviewees whose opinions are not already well known as being in favour of the war, which is why that network keeps having the same four or five people on, over and over. General Wesley Clark is probably spending more time in the CNN studio than he is at home.

And George Bush has decided to take the weekend off. It's been a rough week for him I guess.

I very much wanted to believe the Bush administration's charges against Iraq, and even if they had provided the smallest sliver of evidence that would have been good enough for me. But instead of evidence to prove that Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), they are building rhetoric-based arguments upon rhetoric-based arguments, until it begins to become difficult to sort the facts from the BS. In fact the whole argument about "Weapons of Mass Destruction" is misleading, when you consider that there are several countries in the world with nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, many of which are US allies. Pakistan. Britain. And which country has more WMD than any other in the world? The United States.

OK, I better quit now.

Get out and tell someone that you despise this war.