About London

I'm relieved to see Chris Floyd is okay. He apparently was at Heathrow when the bombings occurred on the seventh:

The hour of destruction and fear in London, and a day of partial paralysis (already easing as I write, at 5 p.m.), while terrible in its own right, especially for those left grieving or injured, again pales in comparison to the daily horror Bush and Blair have engendered in Iraq, particularly Baghdad, where the simplest actions of daily life have become a dance with death, where the people live and breathe fear, ruin, terror and strife every day of their lives.

Bush has done this. Blair has done this. They didn't have to do it. There were no compelling reasons of national security or national survival that compelled them to launch this murderous action - a war of aggression in the very heart of Islam, a war that the US-UK intelligence services admit has engendered more terrorism. They have made senseless, violent, barbaric war on others; and now others make senseless, violent, barbaric war on them.

As soon as I get a second, I'm going to explain for all the world what it is "the terrorists" actually want. Then we'll see whether humanity is smart enough to listen to my extraordinary insights. I am not kidding about this.

In the meantime, here's a brief preview:

Obviously terrorists aren't motivated by a hatred for freedom; I'm sure even Bush and Blair, despite their public claims, aren't so stupid that they believe that. But terrorists also aren't motivated by the things THEY claim they're motivated by. For instance, in the case of al Qaeda, they aren't actually trying (at least directly) to get the US out of the mideast.

I really hope I have time to write this soon, so that mankind can start benefitting from my wisdom.