One is amazed once more, at how the political machinations of a country such as Iraq, can discomfit so many in the west.
George Bush is being vilified worldwide..even his own countrymen speak against him and his efforts against Hussein..
Tony Blair is facing by far the most cataclysmic of crises, with already one Parliamentary Private Secretaries.. that's a step down from a Ministerial post.. resigning over the stated intention of war on the 18th.. This could cost him and Labour years of progress in the eyes of the enfranchised populace.. could cost him his job.. and even if he 'wins'..goes to war and finds weapons of mass destruction, he will find the rifts within his own Party deep and unfordable.. a Pyrrhic victory at best..
Chirac has whipped the French into a frenzy of peacefullness.. counting on and getting the benefits of the intrinsically hysterical nature of the Gauls.. and the divisions declared now between France, the US, Britain, and the EU are deliberate, and designed to grow wider as the EU consolidates it's hegemony..
Malta voted today to toss in with the Union.. Slovenia.. Cyprus.. Hungary.. Slovakia.. Lithuania.. Poland.. Czech Republic.. Estonia and Latvia will all vote on membership this year.. effective next..
Odd in a sense.. it was back in 1798 the Maltese reballed against Napoleon and his French occupation of the Island.. preferring to be in British hands til 1964.. that today they would vote to put themselves under central European control.. mind you, today's Maltese referendum is non-binding.. an indicator so to speak.. ratification takes place next month.. Perhaps by that time Chirac will have been demonstrated to be a manipulator of the first water..
Second only perhaps.. to Hussein himself..