Iraq

So what do we do?
Churches are being bombed - in a country which seemed to have a sort of religious tolerance.
Saddam Hussain is going through a trial that would not be tolerated in any other country - and would have been condemned by the US as a show trial. Could the UN take it over?
Reconstruction is so far behind schedule that conditions are no better than before Iraq was invaded. Instead of defeating Iraq as a source of terrorism now the whole Middle East is likely to explode. Watching the conditions in an Iraqi hospital where the conjoined twins were born this week I could have wept. Iraq had a highly educated population and women had a degree of freedom - even though Saddam Hussain was a monster who gassed his own people. Are things really improving? Do we not have some responsibility?
Maybe to lighten the atmosphere we should have more comedy - like the track sent to me from someone claiming to be called Weird Al Yankovic. Gave me a rare laugh over Iraq I have to say.
It just worries me that the US is going to walk away again and leave someone else to pick up the pieces - whatever is happening in Afghanistan? Is life any better there? Certainly the heroin trade appears to be booming. Just remember how Britain fought several wars with China to ensure they guaranteed free trade in opium! Maybe the world trade negotiations should be doing something similar with Colombia - no sorry the US government seem to be doing all right in that regard already!