So angry I could kill myself

[Kris]

Did anyone watch Panorama last night?
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"fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive."

[John Mc]

I didn't see it, what was it about?

I saw Noam Chomsky on Newsnight. Jeremy Paxman abandoned his usual aggressive questioning style and looked a bit awestruck.

[Kris]

It was about the US & UK atrocities in Iraq.
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"fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive."

[Dave w.]

i missed it yesterday, but it's repeated tonight i think, at some ungodly hour.

i don't particularly want to induce suicidalness, but presumably it's a must-see to see how far things have deteriorated in iraq

[Kris]

It's of interest mainly to see how long these things have been going on and how long also they have been known and complained about.
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"fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive."

[John Mc]

Did the programme put the blame on the soldiers or the people in charge of them? The generals seem to be trying to shift the blame onto the individual soldiers and calling them uneducated hicks.

On a much wider scale, the fall out from 9/11 (Afganistan, Iraq, "The War on Terror"...) has dominated world events for the past 3 years now. And it appears that the situation is getting worse rather than better as the actions of the US and Great Britain seem to create more bad feeling day by day. Is there anyway the bad feeling towards America and the consequences can be resolved in the next few years or are the problems so deeply engrained that its going to take hundreds of years to resolve. Its horrible to think that the situation may be around for as long I'm alive. Or maybe the current situation is no better or worse than things have been for the past 50 years and I'm just more aware of global events.