And in world politics today

Gordon Brown seems intent on completely handing over power to the conservatives in the UK.

Not content with Tony Blair ruining his image by so closely aligning himself to George Bush and pledging troops to a war that never should have happened, Brown has pushed a new bit of anti terror legislation through the house.

Now, in Britain, if you are a terrorism suspect you can be held without charge for 42 days.
That's six weeks. Without charge.

It's interesting in the current world climate that conservative governments such as those led by John Howard and George Bush are now suffering (or have been kicked out already) largely as a result of decisions they have made in their war on an abstract noun.
What's disappointing is that the Labor Government in Britain seems intent on pigeon-holing itself with the same decisions.

And in other news, George Bush doesn't think he deserves the image of warmonger bestowed upon him by pretty much the rest of the world.

In an article in the West today he says his gun-slinging talk leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq made the world think he was a "guy really anxious for war" with Saddam Hussein.
He said he was misunderstood and expressed regret: "I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different retoric."

No regret for the millions of Iraqis who have been killed or injured as a direct result of his war.
But then, hindsight's always 20/20.