While the war continues there is a new discussion about an all-new European Army. Everyone from Spanish socialists like Javier Solana to the conservative right in Germany seems to agree that a united army makes more sense than a dozen small armies who can't do shit.

An independent Euro-Army and maybe even a European seat in the security council is something the Bush-administration desperately wanted to avoid with all that "you're with us or against us"-bribery. The US estimated that everyone would follow the wounded superpower after 9-11 without asking questions. They expected to lead an alliance of countries too scared to refuse to "help out" the strongest one there is.

Having a lot of weapons doesn't automatically make you king of the world. Killing an Arab doesn't make you "a real man". And going to church on sunday doesn't help either.

The Junta in Washington is too obsessed with violence and the fundamentalism of some sect to realize that nobody agrees with them (except for a bunch of para-military hillibillies who don't understand that Wrestling is fixed either maybe...)

The strangest part of the current propaganda-campaign is that the US-military suggests that the people of Iraq will be glad that all these G.I.s come to their country to kill their children. The US expected a quick and clean takeover without any dead bodies on TV. In his declaration of war, Bush sounded like the people of Iraq would even drop their weapons right away to help them out. It has been said over and over that Bush and his friends expected their victims to give them a warm welcome with American flags.
How far away from reality is that?

George W.Bush has damaged the image of the US so bad that people have even started to boycott Hollywood-movies, dvds and other US-products already. I can't remember this has ever happened before and it's not just a reaction to "french fries" being called "freedom fries" in the US now.

The Bush-administration has done a good job of revamping "the ugly American" by any means necessary and they don't even realize it. I was at the comic-shop to pick up some stuff today and I listened to the nerds hanging out there for a while. Everyone paid tribute to Michael Moore for the nasty things he said after winning an oscar. Not even the nerdiest of the nerds gave a shit whether fucking "Attack of the Clones" or "The Two Towers" won in the F/X-category. And the American nerds don't seem to care either if you look at the flame-wars over at Aint-it-cool-News, the international nerd-hangout no.1. A lot of change going on.

The protests continue and the anti-war-movement has merged with the anti-globalisation-movement already. 20000 kids who have never been at a demonstration before faced water-throwers in Hamburg today. Protesting against US-politics is the hippest thing to do right now. You can hear all these kids talking about their future and they're serious about it.

Well, Mr.Bush, think about that. European kids prefer Muslim Cola or Afri Cola over Coca Cola now and they think the US are ruled by some obnoxious fundamentalist dictator threatening "the rest of the world". Shame on you! Your people deserve something better.