Ringing the changes

Well, it is 2006 and the war in Iraq continues. Mr Bush has owned up to the unfortunate demise of some 30,000 Iraqis (no profile of the number of women and children within this figure who may be counted as collateral damage) and others have announced that reconstruction projects will be scaled back. I recommend reading Iain Bank's travel/ drinking book "Raw Spirit" which was written when the war began. I don't recommend looking at Pat Robert's website to get his views on the justification for the war. And there seems to be no end in sight.