*** How peculiar ***

How peculiar some things can go. In 1998/1999 I saw the Rolling Stones bridges to Babylon tour. This lion shows its teeth!

Now the world has seen many bridges in Babylon and along the road to Babylon. Could there be a bridge to the culture over there? Iraq has been a very western oriented country. Just like Iran, but that ís another history. So the seeds are sown in Iraq.

But the soil has to be vertilized. Important issues in my perpective are education, culture, good governance, creating jobs, supply enough food for the inhabitants. So, the delta between Euphrate and Trigis has to be cleared of mines to make agriculture possible.


An Email to Wendy
Thank you Wendy for your concern.

We don't know eachother. However I read your concern about the dirty campaing of the democrats. I read it with much interest. I wonder what you gonna vote...

In The Netherlands we don't have a 2 parties political system. I cannot compare home with the US situation. In our elections opinions are much more diffentiated because of the many parties who all want a piece of the cake. The parties have their own specialization. Try this link to see how the polls are. It gives an insight in the different parties. CDA more or less supports Bush and see the fall in the polls.

PVDA can be compared with your demo's. Remember Clinton and Dutch prime minister Kok about the third way policy. Government, tradeunions and employers working together in order to create stability in the economic field. These days the present Government tears this all down, a part of the Dutch identity. It's a shame for the nation.

They do that because we must be more competitive the Government says. That doesn't work that way. If you wanna change. You can reach that by talks. Like in your marriage Liberal and Conservative living together.

Politically it was possible in the years under MP Kok.

Your demo's and Conservative's are thinking in the same direction I think. But there are slight differences. If the demo want to win the Presidential election they have to stress the difference. So that can be nasty. But that is on both sides, they both wanna win.

In the European point of view, in our interest Kerry as the new president would be the best choice. But what can he do when he's in office and doesn't have support in the Senate, etcetera. Then he becomes a lame duck. Europe needs a strong Kerry.

Wendy answered my post. Thanks Wendy.
It's half past one now, Saturday midnight, I'm going to bed.

the dude was here too