So is Saddam dead? That's what I heard yesterday. And the news is mostly good--saying that the US and Britain are liberators. I heard Bush and Blair this morning, some of their taped excerpts that are playing now in Iraq on formerly Iraqi State airwaves. They were talking about how they were friends and how they had liberated the Iraqis from a brutal dictatorship. They were talking as though they had been asked by the people to do them a tremendous favor. Like this wasn't a war at all but rather a house cleaning. War propaganda is always so cut and dry. We talk in terms of good and bad governments. War waged to rid the world of evil.

So I want to know who's next? Syria is asking the same question. As is Turkey. And Russia. Who's next? When will the threat really end?

But this log is about Occupation. Lets look at the history of Military occupations. How do they most often result? Are the occupied ever really fully grateful? How 'bout US occupations in Haiti, Panama, Puerto Rico, and the Phillippines? These are scene as successful for the most part but are these countries now successful first world countries? Puerto Rico is annexed, but having been there myself and seen the upside down American flags I know much of San Juan and the surrounding areas is like a ghetto.