I've been looking around at some other blogs and forums to get a few ideas as to where to start and I'm glad I did.
One thing I noticed is there are so many old crows like me, all squawking like hell, just as I will, so that tells me I'm not alone so I can't be mad to crow about the government.
I'm thinking along the lines of where do I start. It's a bit like waking up in the middle of a nightmare and wanting to get it all down so you can work it all out the next day.
I guess my desire to crow started with the Iraq war.
I was never really convinced it was a good move to go invading Iraq but I never said anything because I felt the government would "obviously" know best. It would of course have more inside information, not released to the public, the PM would of course be given precisely accurate briefings of what was going on in Iraq, so it would know lots more than I did about why we should be targeting millions of innocent Iraqi's with precision missiles, smashing up their buildings, TV stations, water works, energy, homes and anything else which just happened to become 'collateral damage' of these 'precision guided missiles'.
Then I found out there was no evidence, the government didn't have inside information, nothing they said was accurate, what WAS said had been "sexed up", the PM was a fucking liar and yet nothing changed except ( the proverbial we ), decapitated a sovereign power in the name of peace and democracy.
So that's where I'll start then, as giving me reason to start crowing about a government which I didn't vote for, don't like, don't trust, want to see delivered on a fucking plate before the electorate, and kicked out of office at the next available opportunity for what I see is an act of criminal proportions with the invasion of Iraq, because if I don't crow about it then I can't say I did anything but condone it with my silence, and that I could not stand to live with in the democratic free country I thought I once lived in prior to Iraq.
Still a Dispute continues over the legality of Saddam's execution two years on.
It has been two years since former dictator Saddam Hussein was executed. In 2006 he was found guilty of crimes committed against residents of the Iraqi town of Dujail in 1982, following a failed assassination attempt against him. Hussein’s trial and execution provoked a mixed reaction worldwide, winning the approval of some countries in the west, but many in the Muslim world were appalled by Saddam’s treatment.
Hussein was captured by U.S. troops on December 13, 2003, after more than six months on the run. Initially there were many random sightings of Saddam, but none could be authenticated and Saddam would sometimes release recordings of his protest against the invasion.
After a trial lasting in Iraq for three years, Hussein was sentenced to death and executed on December 30, 2006. From his first court appearance, Saddam Hussein questioned its legitimacy, calling George W. Bush the real criminal. Saddam and his lawyers contested the court's authority as, they insisted, he was yet the President of Iraq.
The trial was also known for the assassinations and attempts on the lives of several of Saddam's lawyers, as well as the replacement of the chief presiding judge just midway through.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International dubbed it a show trial and said it was a significant step away from Iraq's rule of law.
Meanwhile, William Ramsey-Clark, the U.S. former Attorney-General and winner of the Gandhi Peace Award, claims Saddam Hussein was tried fairly though, he says, it was tough work to ensure that.
The guy apparently has 1,100,000 signatures requiring the impeachment of George Bush, and he say's that an aggressive invasion against a little country which posed no threat to the United States, has to have some kind of sanction for no war was occurring until George Bush started one.
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