Week Ending 27 April

This week included a steady climb toward regaining my health. I could feel my strength and firm constitution returning steadily, each day better energy-wise than the one before.

Workin' It

Well I came out in second place which is cool considering there were well over a thousand people vying for the job, but unfortunately there was only one position available. They were really cool about it and apparently the hiring manager really liked me and she told me they might have something in three or four months. She suggested I call back in a month to check in and the timeline should be more firm by then. I figure even if I have a job by june, I'll still ring her up to let her know how I'm doing. She did ask me to and that's what networking is all about.

School

My "spring" break lasted an extra week coz I'm still not feeling 100%. My sore throat turned into congestion and achey feeling. I took several naps during the day as I tried to read up on the material he covered two weeks ago, just to refresh my memory... but I woke up at a quarter after six (Not good when class starts at six and it's on the other side of town) I made some food and went back to sleep...

Drums of War

Local Control, but not THAT local
The American dude "in charge" of rebuilding Iraq arrived in Baghdad this week and the Bush administration repeatedly bombarded the media with their old saw about letting Iraqis run their country. They were quick to point out that it will have to be at some unspecified time in the futre, after the oil fields are up and running and that they certainly won't allow the self appointed "mayor of Baghdad" to assert much control. They claim that if he gets too big for his britches that the Marines will stop looting the Presidential Palaces long enough to 'oust him'... but if he's got the support of a lot of local people isn't he a 'local leader'? America is terrible at nation building (just look at Mississippi and Afghanistan!) I would think the Bush Administration would AT LEAST PRETEND to believe their own rhetoric about what they're doing in Iraq.

Burning Bush
The European media is full of stories about charging Americans with war crimes for this illegal war. A British politician in Tony Blair's Labour Party was even featured on NPR with some great arguments toward that end.

Pre-War "Evidence" has never panned out.
Before the war, Blair had a dossier filled with "evidence" supplied or manufactured by the CIA and the Bush Administration. Of course one of the reports turned out to be plagerised from a grad student's thesis. In the US, Colin Powel appeared before the UN Security council with maps and 'intelligence' reports that have proved to be totally fabricated. They never gave the weapons inspectors credible evidence despite repeated requests by Hans Blix to do so. They said Sadam had WMD and proposed the war to remove them. The fact that they never cooperated with the UN inspectors means that if they know where they are and reveal it to the world now, the US will be in direct violation of a UN resolution. If they don't really know where the weapons are and none or not enough materialize, it means that military action was unjustified and illegal under International Law. Either way, it seems the US is in for a rough ride through international relations while the Bushites are in control.

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