Editorial Bear

LONDON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush presents more of a threat to world peace than the leaders of North Korea and Iran, and only Osama bin Laden is more feared, according to a poll of British voters published in The Guardian.

Ah, The Guardian. What a horrible old rag that is.

I am getting very tired of this repeated 'opinion' which the papers and BBC are shoving down our throats on a daily basis. I am NOT the world's biggest George Bush fan, but I do not think he threatens world peice more than Kim Jong Il - and I'll never believe it no matter how many times newspapers tell me that I do.

The current opinion du jour is that all the problems with terrorism can be traced back to Bush. George Bush is apparently to blame for everything. 9/11, 11/7 and when it rained last Friday.

What utter crap.

George Bush was only in the White House for a few months before 9/11 and (as Micheal Moore delighted in telling us) the Bushmeister hadn't done a whole hell of a lot while he was there. If 9/11 occured in retaliation for anything America had done, it had been done a long time before Mr Bush came onto the scene. And that would probably place the blame neatly in Bill Clinton's lap. But the real truth is that America is not to blame for anything.

The terrorism plagueing the world at the moment is the fault of a few fundementalist muslims who hate America. Not because of what America's done, but because of what it is. These fundementalists (just to clarify, I'm saying they're not representative of the entire muslim population) hate all countries that have democratic governments, treat women equally and eat porkchops.

If we capitulated to all of their demands, if Isreal was abandoned and if the West withdrew entirely from the Middle East, it wouldn't make any difference. These are just flimsy excuses the fundementalist muslims use to justify their continued campaign of violence. The only thing that will truly end their reign of violence is when they have achieved the goals set out by Mohammed. Converting or exterminating all non muslims and governing the world by the laws set out in the Koran.

It wouldn't matter what America had done. She'd have still been attacked. Because America is a shining beacon of liberty, justice and equality - and that's what the fundementalists fear most of all.

That's the truth, but the media seems terrified of it. Instead, we blame ourselves. We're being attacked. We're being targeted? What did we do wrong? Let's blame America.

And the anti American feeling in Europe is growing. Today, I had two people make throwaway comments about stupid Americans and their stupid country - unaware that I was married to an American and a huge fan of the country. It pissed me off because these comments were ignorant and stereotypical fantasies - about how Americans are ignorant and believe in stereotypes.

I just wish there were more people who didn't believe the highly slanted tripe we're being spoon fed on a daily basis in this country. Hell, even the BBC admitted that they were no longer an unbiased entity and had a specific left wing agenda behind their news and documentries.

Somebody said that the only way to bring peace to Iraq was to with the war of hearts and minds. The scary thing is that a war to win our hearts and minds is being fought in this country as well - and we're losing.