Yup, it's official! As this article reveals,Yahoo! News - Photos bring our agony into focus, America has lost the high moral ground in this war of liberation. But, pardon me: could somebody please tell me when America ever held the moral high ground in the first bloody place? Lying about weapons of mass destruction, lying about links between terrorists and Saddam Hussein, lying about how much of a threat Hussein posed to the rest of the so-called free world, lying about how this war would bring Iraqis the "liberation" they were so yearning for, lying about how brave and valorous those good ol' boys, the marines, are, lying about the true intentions of this war... is that what you call occupying the moral high ground? Not really, but then again, that's the job of the national media, isn't it? To make sure the public swallows these lies, to make sure the public is frightened enough to believe this bullshit and to make sure everyone thinks the administration is doing such an, oh so good job of the whole thing. So, Rumsfeld may be unemployed by the end of this administration's term [although do people like him ever really lose their jobs? Look at Cheney who went from Halliburton to the White House!], but why on Rumsfeld? Why not sack the lot of them? Bush Jr. isn't going to have that much to worry about, is he? There's always daddy's business partners who can hook him up with a cosy little job, I'm sure. Wolfowitz and Co. will surely be able to hack up some phony, lame-ass plan to start another racist organisation, and let's face it: Cheney's been up for retirement for quite some time now. Let's give the guy what he wants. A nice, comfy villa right in the heart of Baghdad with a huge effigy of his head on the top, like Saddam's only bigger so that the rebel stinger missiles will know where to aim for when they feel like taking ol' Dicky out for walkies among the oh so happily liberated Iraqi population! Moral high ground, my arse. You want moral high ground, you read "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene for a good and thorough history lesson on how the US has been defining its moral high ground since Vietnam! Would somebody please, please, please wake up this nation? Thanks...