Or should I say GOP as most people seem to be now? Are they rebranding themselves for a reason? Maybe this way some of the swaying Republican voters will no longer need to consider voting for the other guys as they no longer need to vote Republican...They can vote GOP!

Anyway, I digress!

Saddam has decided to use his "moment" in an Iraqi courtroom, this time for his alleged genocide of the Kurds, to call for all Iraqi's to shake hands and join together in a bid to stop the increasing "sectarian" violence. I place sectarian in quotes because, as we have pointed out many times in the past, the violence that is reported by the likes of Faux news as terrorist activity between different religious and political groups is, in reality, almost entirely aimed at the invading forces and very little of it is aimed at one another at all.

So, essentially, Iraq is almost united in a common goal for just about the first time in its history. The major downside of this is that they are going to have to kill US, British and other allied troops (of which there are very few now) to achieve their current goal. If Saddam is to be taken the least bit seriously, then the job of the allied troops is about to get a little harder to say the least.

So what is Saddam's game? Is he really looking to forge a united nation in Iraq even after being sentenced to death by its latest US-backed government and judiciary?

Surely not?!

Maybe he understands that the US is currently in the middle of one of the tightest mid-term elections in history and the subliminal (easy for me to say, eh Dubya?!) message here is "we do not want a war, you do not want a war so get rid of Bush and his cronies and maybe, just maybe, we won't have a war anymore."

Unfortunately, the biggest let-down of all will be putting the House and the Senate in the hands of a greater number of those who have already voted almost unanimously in support of the legislation and policies that the Bush administration has handed to them as they are clearly very unlikely to change anything anytime soon. regardless of the public rhetoric, they have demonstrated time and again that they already support Bush and his ridiculous behaviour so why should anything change just because a few more of them get their butts into the "hotseat"?

Ok - So it isn't a bid to get the Democrats into power, that seems a certainty...

So what else might it be? Well, let's turn it on its head for a moment...If the whole of Iraq turned around and shook hands, agreed to end the violence and bowed to their new US, sorry, Iraqi government, where would the Democrats be then? With Iraq no longer a problem and democracy reigning supreme they would not have a voting mandate to stand on and Hilary would not get within a mile of the White House in 2008!

Yikes...Jeb Bush for president?!

So who is Saddam really trying to impress? Clearly not the judges of his latest trial as the recent death sentence levied upon him would make that somewhat pointless and obviously empty. Clearly not Bush whose father as president and vice-president as well as his current Secretary of Defence, Donald "the utter bastard" Rumsfeld, organised the sale of the chemical and biological weapons that he is now standing trial for allegedly using. And clearly not the Democrats who would be dropped firmly onto their often-speaking backsides by the very idea of a peaceful Iraq.

So who?

The most frightening thought of all is the thought that there may be no other reason for his actions other than he genuinely means it. The one thing that became clear from our recent little wander down Saddam's rich history was that he had a good idea of how to make his own country a great nation without necessarily needing to rely on the likes of the US, UK, OPEC, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel or anybody else for that matter.

And if you are from any of the aforementioned nations and organisations that is a simply terrifying prospect!

So, to recap:

• The Republicans don't stand to gain from this
• The Democrats don't stand to gain from this
• The Iraqi judges are unlikely to review his death sentence because of this
• The Iraqi people are unlikely to suddenly form in an orderly group around their US-installed puppet government
• The Iraqi people would benefit greatly from the end of the war, especially if that included a return to a pre-1991 situation that did not involve the constant bombings from patrolling allied jets

It sounds like he might just be trying to get the message out to his people...Maybe it is time we got the message out to our own!

If the war continues nothing will change. People will continue to die every day for a war that simply has no real justification. Sweep away the crap and get to the point, no matter what Bush and his cronies might tell you, the Iraq war and the reasons for it are not the issue. The END of the Iraq war IS the issue.

"If we leave the oil will stop flowing" - The oil is not flowing, it is dripping out at levels that are even lower than they were prior to the invasion.

"If we leave now there will be a civil war" - Why on Earth would that happen? The Iraqi people are united in a single goal and for as long as they are being given target practice they will continue to act accordingly. Take the troops out and you take the anger out. Take the anger out and you just might end up with a people so relieved that they all turn around, shake hands and go about the business of restoring Iraq to a decent place to live again.

The reality is simple...The people of Iraq do not want us in their country and the people of our countries do want us to be there anymore and there is no decent justification for staying.

We are told that the Democrats do not have an exit strategy...Let me help...

Get the troops to hand in their weapons and walk across the border to Iran with their hands up. When the fighting in Iraq stops and is not replaced by fighting in Iran we will have solved two problems at once.

Ok, too "crazy" for you? Then why not put them on planes and take them home in much the opposite way as yo got them there in the first place? If Iraq descends into civil war then so be it. If what we are being told is to be believed then it will be no different to the status quo. If the truth is that there is no civil war and no real thereat of one then there is even less reason to be there watching our sons, daughter, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends die.

2,837 US military personnel are now dead due to the conflict in Iraq and, depending on whether or not you believe the highly respected british medical journal, The Lancet, up to 650,000 Iraqis have also perished in the violence that has been rationalised by Bush, Blair and Co. as a search for WMDs, a case of hunt the dictator, an attempt to bring stability to the region and, most recently, an open admission that Rumsfeld's claims that we were all talking nonsense were, well, nonsense and that Iraq had to be invaded TO SECURE THE OIL!

When do we all realise that it is time to take a step back and see that in a world where Saddam is on death row calling for an end to all violence whilst Bush is being driven around in a Presidential motorcade looking for a candidate that actually wants to be seen dead with him calling for an end to all Democrats (who, if the lunatic right is to be believed, will surely give the "terrorists" a seat or two in their next administration,) it is time to get rid of the whole damned lot of them, their laws and their amendments and start again with a new sheet of paper and a new model for government.

How about now?!