Not often I ...

Not often I update twice in one evening...but currently watching a programme about all the Peace marches that took place over the weekend.Here in London the guest of honour was Rev. Jesse Jackson. Now there's a guy of peace. He used to work alongside Dr King in the 60's and watching the pictures I'm sure I wasn't the only one who had a sense of flashback. The sheer numbers of people involved, in so many cities and countries around the World. They also spotlighted on a Gulf War Veteran. The guy was moved to tears by the day, and his presence there was driven by everything that he had seen and experienced 12 years ago.Yep a definite sense of deja vu here. All that was missing was Joan Baez ...(ask your parents!!!)As is so often the case in things like this there are arguments from all sides but will bombing Iraq really change the situation there? More innocent people will die and Saddam will just go to ground like he did last time. How can you punish a nation for the actions of their leader - especially when in their recent 'elections' there was only one name on the ballot paper? and yes I use the word 'election' and not election because the whole thing was a farce.I'm sure there will be people who disagree with me, who say that nuking Iraq is the only way to go but there is a real groundswell of opion against this and I only hope that our Prime Minister will listen to the voice of the common man and stop brown-nosing to Bush.Yes remove Saddam but surely there are enough covert forces around the world in varying countries for this to be achieved some other way?and by the way has anyone else noticed that whilst all this attention and focus is on Iraq that North Korea are quietly building up their nuclear weapons and pointing them at their neighbours...?Am I naieve in my viewpoint? Oh I expect so but hey I am open to discussion. Its not as if this is something that is going to go away.