Last night we went to see the movie the Pianist. Did this guy deserve to beat Daniel Day Lewis for the Oscar? Well I dunno. He did a damn good job. I still they should have tied. Anyway, as we watched the cinematic replaying of Germany bombing and invading Poland and it's people, we would look over to the side at each other in horror, realizing that as we were sitting there in these beautifully decorated air-conditioned movie theatres eating our popcorn that thousands of miles away the Iraqi people are experiencing the same thing right now as thousands of bombs bombard their city every day and night and foreign American troops march in everyday giving them orders like they now own the country. They have no phones now. Water lines are broken, food shortages everywhere, whole buildings completely destroyed all around them. Malls and grocery stores filled with people have been completely demolished. And these foreign troops who march in are saying they are on a mission called Iraqi Freedom. As the people sit in total darkness without telephones and starve, their children crying, and listen to their city being bombed I am sure that they find it very hard to believe that the foreigners are there for their Freedom. It is very scary that something like this is happening in our modern time. It is even more frightening that something like this is taking place in the name of the great country of America and it's people. 

I just read this interview between ABC News and Iraq’s Defense Minister Aziz, who is not a Muslim but a Christian by the way, like many Americans, one of the few in Saddam’s cabinet. The interview is illuminating and very sad. Tomorrow is April 1^st. Perhaps tomorrow we will wake up and someone will yell April fools! And we will realize that it was all just a dream—America are the good guys after all! yeah! Don't see it happening though.

ABCNEWS' RICHARD ENGEL:  In an interview today in the bomb-blighted Iraqi capital, Aziz told ABCNEWS' Richard Engel that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is alive, and that he remains the legitimate ruler of Iraq. The following is a transcript of the interview, part of which is being shown on ABCNEWS' World News Tonight. This is an unedited, uncorrected transcript subject to future revisions.

ABCNEWS' RICHARD ENGEL:
So I just wanted to first of all ask you, thank you very much for meeting me and having this discussion. And I wanted to — I heard a very chilling comment that was by the vice president yesterday and then again by the defense minister, defense spokesman today, he said that Iraq is really welcoming the use of suicide attacks and it seems like a very chilling development for a lot of Americans — is this a new policy? Is this going to be … 

TARIQ AZIZ, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF IRAQ:
This is not a new policy, the people which is being threatened by an invasion has the right to fight by all means to defend itself. This is one of the means to defend Iraq against the invaders. So it is welcome, yes it is welcome. The Arabs and Muslims are wholeheartedly supporting Iraq and they know that this is an unjust war. A war of aggression, colonialist, imperialist war against Iraq and against them as well therefore they are ready to join forces with the Iraqi people to fight the invaders and that is very natural. It is not a surprise to me but it might be a surprise to the Americans, the British, but this is not a surprise to the Arabs and the Muslims. The rest of the interview is here: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/World/Iraq_aziz003303.html  

I didn't know what the word imperialist meant completely so I looked it up. The definition is rather illuminating: imperialism n 1: a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries 2: a political orientation that advocates imperial interests 3: any instance of aggressive extension of authority

Hhhmmmm.....