SO WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO NOW IN IRAQ

Yes Bush lied to all of us about why we need to attack Iraq. Yes Bush made a huge mistake in attacking Iraq and neglecting Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Yes Bush is responsible for thousands of U.S. deaths as well as Iraqi deaths and there is no end in sight. And yes Bush is responsible for unifying and strengthening Al Qaeda terrorism worldwide with no end in sight. Yes Bush has fucked up the world royally BUT....we must go on.

So what now. Congress is pushing for an end to this madness and so in the nation - they have had it and don't want to take it anymore. Can we just leave? Iraqis themselves are asking us to leave - why? They want to get started with the civil war as soon as possible so the winners can start ruling Iraq.

Is a civil war inevitable - YES! The Kurds want independence and the Shiites want power. The Sunnis are in the wrong place at the wrong time - they need to just leave and live somewhere where other Sunnis live - Saudi Arabia?

What about the terrorists? Don't worry - the next dictator will take care of them just like Saddam did. If we left Saddam in power Bin Laden and his group would have been kept out of Iraq - but don't get me started.

So do we just leave? Naw - others would come in. Just let them get their goverment going and get an army and police force that can actually do their jobs. We should have just used their existing armed forces and police BUT don't get me started.

Start pulling our troops out in 2006 making sure we warn everybody else to stay out of Iraq and let nature take its course.

Janusz

DETROITERS DESERVE WHAT THEY HAVE SOWN?

Well, well, well. We really hoped Detroiter's had more sense but alas it turned out not to be. Well let us analyze this whole election campaign and see what went wrong for poor Hendrix.

I guess one can always say that this was a squeaker, basically 50/50 so not all Detroiters are total idiots; just a slight majority. In all fairness, we have to limit the idiot label to only the actual voters.

Freeman Hendrix had a sizeable lead going into the election. He started dropping at the end and registered a dead heat on election day - why.

Ole Kwame is part of a political family. Their plans for him are huge and they will not allow him to lose a mayoral race when they want him to climb the political ladder (president?). They obviously hired some smart dudes that knew exactly what needed to be done.

The facts were in on Kwame; incompetent, party boy, corrupt..................all the traits that endear him to the younger blacks. Add the fact that the white establishment is picking on him and you give him an actual edge.

The Detroit media mercilessly revealed every flaw in the man, detail by detail. They had solid proof for every transgression. In response he published a "lynching photo of a black from the bad ole days of the South" and said the media is trying to lynch him just like the Southern whites lynched blacks in days gone by; a brilliant move!

He also pointed out that Hendrix is only half black / half white which means he works for the whites and will give city jobs to whites . Kilpatrick even got the black Baptist Pastors of Detroit to believe that they will somehow lose political clout in city matters when Hendrix wins even though Hendrix belongs to a prominent black Baptist church. The pastors urged their flocks, under penalty of eternal damnation, not to vote for Hendrix.

A TV clip that ran near the end depicted Hendrix having a big black female protestor thrown out of a school Board meeting - the message was that he did not care if Detroiters controlled their own school system - let the whites in State government do it. The facts are that this particular woman was disrupting all school board meetings and not allowing school business to be conducted . She was a major pain in the ass and he did the right thing but that is not what Detroiters saw - they saw what Kilpatrick wanted them to see.

Kwame then went after the young who probably never voted but did this time. He basically represented himself as the black man that made it out of the ghetto (which he was never in) - by the way, this group also includes pimps and drug dealers. Group members dress well, eat well, have many women, wild parties, lots of money and stick it to the establishment / read white man, every chance they get. Young blacks don't care that he is royally screwing Detroit and Detroiters - he looks like a cool dude and acts like a cool dude and therefore should be re- elected.

It is quite obvious that Kwame played dirty politics as well as the race card but he played it against his own people. He appealed to a segment of the black population that still holds basic black stereotypical instincts that normal blacks have long abandoned as backward and down right stupid. These people don't trust anyone that is not just like them; plain ole niggers and Kilpatrick portrayed himself as just that and he portrayed Hendrix as just the opposite.

Kilpatrick's people did their homework and they won to the detriment of the city and its people. Polls say many Detroiters are ready to leave the city. That number will increase now as any hope the city could recover under new leadership has gone. The last person leaving Detroit, please shut off the light and close the door.

Janusz

BACK FROM SCOTLAND

Went over to Scotland to celebrate my daughter's wedding again but this time in Scotland where her husband is originally from. We went to PERTH and attended the reception held in a "Scotch - Whiskey" distillery. Everything went well. We even learned to dance a few Scottish dances after which the band played "Proud Mary" and other standard wedding songs.

Drove on the "wrong side of the road" which was pretty scary for me. The wheel was also on the right hand of the car. My son acted as navigator and saved me many a time from going into the wrong lane. They have many, many "roundabouts" which are suppose to be the best traffic controllers but are a little difficult to get used to.

The Scots are very polite and therefore we did not get into any political discussions but I knew they were concerned about the world situation. Many of them are world travelers and therefore concerned about the increasing dangers of world travel.

All in all, I think the Scots do like Americans and travel here often on vacation. They especially like our accents.

Janusz