I am just going to blog just often enough to this thing going,
There are a flourish of activities in my head but most of it old and exposition on older ideas.
Just a few thoughts for the London bombers and al-Qaeda. If your reason for bombing London as a act of vengeance for the Iraqi CIVILIANS hurt in the Gulf War 2( well the US did declare war so Saddam and co aren't covered) well then why stop there. Onwards to Beijing( oppresion of Uighurs in Xinjiang), Khartoum( Darfur crisis), Rabat( occupation of Western Sahara), Jakarta( heavy handling of Acheh).
You see given the numbers the Brits killed, at least they are paying reparations by rebuilding infrastructure. Quite unlike settling thousands of Hans to make you the minority, starving the Furs and preventing aid from reaching them, hunting down REAL freedom fighters and the likes. To fight for oppressed Muslims you must fight all the oppressors and not just those in the West...or are you just rascist?
I need to note that I do not think for one moment tat US and Britain are oppressing the Iraqi people. If they are why bother helping them rebuild and forming a democratic society. If they wanted oil they could have much more easily opened the Alaskan Nature Wildlife Reserve or Invaded Venezuala( the US got allies within and without the country and it is much much closer and doesn't have this suicide bomb crap); if it is Saddam Hussein they should have just left after capturing him and dropping a few more extra bombs to make sure the Iraqis don't get out of the Stone Age until sometime the next century instead of helping rebuilding Iraq which is a thankless job and it is the most cited reason for attacks against you.
I suspect a much nobler course. Cleaning up the mess for 4 decades of real-politik that includes turning a blind eye to people like Saddam. Would have saved us this mess and thousands of Kurds and Shiite if George Bush 1 pushed all the way to Baghdad in Gulf War 1. Why he didn't? Most likely real-politik. You see they were only sanction to save Kuwait. Ahh the Un but that will be for another time.