To Whom it May Concern (you know who you are), I am sick of hearing praises for George W. Bush, and his wonderful crusade to spread democracy through the Middle East. Most recently is the various Bush fans claiming responsibility for Syria leaving Lebanon. The USA certainly had a hand in it, but this is something the Lebanese have been working on for over a decade, the US hardly deserves credit for being the sole precipitator of this change. Though (so far) Bush's policy has really been...

So, at a cost of trillions of dollars to the American taxpayer, George Bush finally got his bogey-man. The broken man was pulled from his "spider hole" by heroic American troops, and the world is once again a safe place, but what did "The Butcher of Bagdad" do to deserve this? For years, he was the darling of the American right wing, but one day, he stepped out of line by threatening America's favourite dictatorship in the region, Saudi Arabia, by invading Kuwait. Of course, we all remember what...

Greetings, and welcome to my blog. I am a 28 year old multimedia teacher from the UK, currently living in Canada, and I intend to use this as a place to vent my frustrations of modern life. You will likely see a bit of everything here in the future, but the main topics that interest me currently are issues of global politics. I look forward to getting to work on this, and hope that my opinions, even if they don't inspire you, will at least cause you to think.