John Pilger is officially certifiable:

We now glimpse the forbidden truths of the invasion of Iraq. A man cuddles the body of his in-fant daughter; her blood drenches them. A woman in black pursues a tank, her arms outstretched; all seven in her family are dead. An American Marine murders a woman because she happens to be standing next to a man in a uniform. "I'm sorry,'' he says, "but the chick got in the way.''

Just an "American Marine", no listing of name or unit, no way to prove whether it was actually said.

Covering this in a shroud of respectability has not been easy for George Bush and Tony Blair. Millions now know too much; the crime is all too evident. Tam Dalyell, Father of the House of Commons, a Labour MP for 41 years, says the Prime Minister is a war criminal and should be sent to The Hague. He is serious, because the prima facie case against Blair and Bush is beyond doubt.

Saving millions of lives is now a war crime? According to an MP that has lived off the government dole for 41 years.

To Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, the Iraqis, like all Arabs, were "niggers'', against whom poison gas could be used. They were un-people; and they still are. The killing of some 80 villagers near Baghdad last Thursday, of children in markets, of the "chicks who get in the way'' would be in industrial quantities now were it not for the voices of the millions who filled London and other capitals, and the young people who walked out of their schools; they have saved countless lives.

How Winston Churchill is quoted in this article escapes me. First off, we have not used poison gas on these un-people, in fact these un-people are driving M1A1 tanks and fighting for the America. He also uses the Iraqi number of dead without indicating if they were soldiers or civilian, again, no way to disprove or prove.

Just as the American invasion of Vietnam was fuelled by racism, in which "gooks'' could be murdered with impunity, so the current atrocity in Iraq is from the same mould. Should you doubt that, turn the news around and examine the double standard. Imagine there are Iraqi tanks in Britain and Iraqi troops laying siege to Birmingham. Absurd? Well, it would not happen here. But the British military is doing that to Basra, a city bigger than Birmingham, firing shoulder-held missiles and dropping cluster bombs on its population, 40 per cent of whom are children. Moreover, "our boys" are denying water to the stricken people of Basra as well as to Umm Qasr, which they have controlled for a week. It is no wonder Blair is furious with the al-Jazeera channel, which has exposed this, and the lie that the people of Basra were rising up on cue for their liberation.

No John, the Vietnam War was fueled by the fact that the US was attempting to stop the spread of Communism, not racism. Not the Socialist Utopia type of Communism that you know in your heart will work. No, the type of Communism that was practiced by Lenin and Stalin, the type that allowed tens of millions of Russians to be extinguished. As to the water issue, whether true or not, is not backed up by any facts attributing sources that could be proved or disproved.

These Anglo-American invasions of weak and largely defenceless nations are meant to demonstrate the kind of world the US is planning to dominate by force, with its procession of worthy and unworthy victims and the establishment of American bases at the gateways of all the main sources of fossil fuels. There is a list now. If Israel has its way, Iran will be next; and Cuba, Libya, Syria and even China had better watch out. North Korea may not be an immediate American target, because its threat of nuclear war has been effective. Ironically, had Iraq kept its nuclear weapons, this invasion probably would not have taken place. That is the lesson for all governments at odds with Bush and Blair: nuclear-arm yourself quickly.

Ah, I get it, It's all because of the JEWS! They have their hand up the backs of the US and UK and are leading us like puppets. And it's all about the OIIIIIILLLL!!! (TM). I didn't realize that Cuba and Israel had a beef, and I further didn't realize that they had oil. Damn, if I knew they had oil, I'd have pushed to make them the 51st state years ago.

The most forbidden truth is that this demonstrably militarist British government, and the rampant superpower it serves, are the true enemies of our security. In the plethora of opinion polls, the most illuminating was conducted by American Time magazine among a quarter of a million people across Europe. The question was: "Which country poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003?'' Readers were asked to tick off one of three possibilities: Iraq, North Korea and the United States. Eight per cent viewed Iraq as the most dangerous; North Korea was chosen by 9 per cent. No fewer than 83 per cent voted for the United States, of which, in the eyes of most of humanity, Britain is now but a lethal appendage.

If the Europeans think we are the greatest threat to world peace, it must be true. Was this poll taken in the "old Europe" or the beneath contempt "New Europe". He also has to pull the UK is the US' lapdog card. Doesn't the majority in Britain support Tony Blair? If Pilger had his way, the Brits would've teamed up with France and Germany and would be immensely better off today.

For journalists who are not "embedded'' and are deeply troubled by the kind of propaganda that consumes even our language, and who, as James Cameron put it, "write the first draft of history'', similar courage is required. Brave Terry Lloyd of ITN, killed by the 'coalition', demonstrated this. The threats are now not even subtle, such as this from our Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon. "One of the reasons for having journalists [embedded],'' he said, "is to prevent precisely the kind of tragedy that occurred to an ITN crew ... because [Terry Lloyd] was not part of a military organisation. And in those circumstances, we can't look after all those journalists ... So having journalists have the protection of our armed forces is both good for journalism. It's also good for people watching.''

I get it. In the cesspool world of journalism, the embedded reporters are sell-outs. They will not have the steely nerve and tough bladder of "John Pilger, Super Journalist". They too will become lap dogs.

How do we face this threat to all of us? The answer lies, I believe, in understanding the extent of our own power. Patrick Tyler wrote wisely in the New York Times the other day that America faced a "tenacious new adversary'' – the public. He says we are entering a new bi-polar world with two new superpowers: the Bush/Blair gang on one side, and world opinion on the other, a truly popular force stirring at last and whose consciousness soars by the day. Wasn't it the poet Shelley who, at a time like this, exhorted us to: "Rise like lions after slumber''?

We are all threatened, just ask Johnny. He quotes the NY Times as if gospel but previously dicredits any paper associated with Rupert Murdoch. PerhapsPresident Bush and Blair are doing what we elected them to do. Make decisions and sticking by their convictions.