John Pilger: The Unthinkable Becomes Normal

"This epic crime is the greatest political scandal of our time, the latest chapter in the long 20th-century history of the West's conquests of other lands and their resources. If we allow it to be normalised, if we refuse to question and probe the hidden agendas and unaccountable secret power structures at the heart of "democratic" governments and if we allow the people of Fallujah to be crushed in our name, we surrender both democracy and humanity."

Story here.

P.S. I watched Antionio Banderas in "Imagining Argentina" last night. Based on a book by Lawrence Thornton, the movie describes the "disappearance" of 30,000 Argentine citizens during the right-wing military dictatorships of the 70s (US sponsored, of course). I thoroughly recommend it as a frightening example of the bizarrely surreal yet horrifyingly violent direction Bush and his cronies are steering us.