This guy is seems to be spending too much time reading far leftie blogs without the benefit of factual understanding or balanced reporting.

Go for it, Rueben. Take no notice of our right-wing neo-colonialists, mate.

As one going on 88, and having qualified as a socio-politico historian in my retirement from the farm, can't understand why people like George Bush, which includes many of our study group, can't wake up that that the free-market policy they are following right now, is hardly any different than that of the 19 century.

And here's Georgie Boy now in the last gasp of his rightist reign, having the cheek to call on what's left of Iraq, somewhat similar to an occupied people, so fed up and misled by the West, they'll do anything for a quiet time.

Same is going on in Afghanistan with Blair's inheritor trying the same thing that was done in the colonial days.

Could reckon, however, though not in love with them, that
certainly the people of the present Taliban did not come down in the last shower. No one has ever conquered Afghanistan since Alexander the Great.

I only wish our OLO people would study more history, where they would also find that same sorts of right-wing free-market smart-arses, not only stuffed up the economic system during the Roaring Twenties, but again since they took over from Keynesism in the late 1970's.

You forgot to blame the zionists. Dont forget, everything wrong that happens in the world, happens because of a jewish plot.

(note - sarcasm)

Obviously, most of the above commentators are so uninformed about American politics and society that they actually think that only left-wing people oppose the policies of the Bush administration, or use words such as "empire", "imperial", "authoritarian" or "fascist" to describe actions of the US government. Hopefully, these people will take the time to educate themselves:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2008-10-30_058_americas_slow_motion_fascist_coup.mp3

Reuben Brand has been reading way too much chomsky and pilger.

the thing that always annoys me about lefty articles that mention the iraq war is that they go on and on about oil and give no evidence to support their claims. well where were the seizures of oil reserves during the invasion? or if america wanted iraq's oil why not lift the sanctions on iraq that had been there for a decade?

america has been talking for years about this war. president in clinton in 1998:
"Together we must also confront the new hazards of chemical and biological weapons, and the outlaw states, terrorists and organized criminals seeking to acquire them. Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade, and much of his nation's wealth, not on providing for the Iraqi people, but on developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them."

reuben brand also seems disappointed that the taliban regime, that banned women from an education and stoned them for speaking to men other than their husbands and subjugated them in public life and imposed their dark age islamic law on a people. reuben brand probably just shut his eyes and covered his ears when news reports showed footage of afghanis celebrating the overthrow of their brutal islamic tyrants.

reuben brand doesn't realise that freedom isn't free. that democracy requires a struggle and this peacenik is too undetermined and focused on his wacky conspiracy theories to care.

Aw tell us another one liberal< Not that one could ever like Saddam, but didn't you know, Liberal, that most of America's attacks on Saddam have been started off through spin, the last one pretty well destroying Iraq's valuable culture, through straight out lies.

Back to spin, did you know, Liberal, that it was Donald Rumsfeld as US advisor who kidded Saddam to attack Iran back in !982, which finished as you should know with both America and iraq pretty well begging Iran to call it quits

Furthermore if you studied history a bit more my friend you would know that America has been out to get Iran ever since the Ayotollah booted out the fake US dressed up Shah