Hard to look at

As I watch this I can't help but to feel resentment as military aircraft flying overhead, and the 10 lane highway 20 metres from my window make it hard to hear the Iraqi national orchestra as they play a popular Western piece, something from the Nutcracker, I think, but I'm not sure.

Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq
Broadcast 03/06/2000 ITV Runtime 75 Minutes
A documentary film by John Pilger
Sanctions enforced by the UN on Iraq since the Gulf War have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, including over half a million children - many of whom weren't even born when the Gulf War began.

Saudi will intervene in Iraq if US withdraws-aide
29 Nov 2006 11:10:32 GMT
Source: Reuters
Background
Iraq in turmoil
More WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Using money, weapons or its oil power, Saudi Arabia will intervene to prevent Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias from massacring Iraqi Sunni Muslims once the United States begins pulling out of Iraq, a security adviser to the Saudi government said on Wednesday...
...Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil producer and exporter and a close U.S. ally, fears Shi'ite Iran has been gaining influence since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein's government.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney held talks with Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh on Saturday. Details were not disclosed....

...- or the Saudi king "may decide to strangle Iranian funding of the militias through oil policy. If Saudi Arabia boosted production and cut the price of oil in half ... it would be devastating to Iran ... The result would be to limit Tehran's ability to continue funnelling hundreds of millions each year to Shi'ite militias in Iraq and elsewhere."

Greatest Oil Reserves by Country, 2006
Health and Science—Environment and Nature—Energy

Debating to the numbers (or more on Saudi production)

UN: Afghan government officials protecting opium trade
posted November 29, 2006 at 11:45 p.m.
A new report says wiping out heroin production, which reached a record high in 2006, could take a generation.

If you watched the documentary you won't wonder why I decided to throw the last article into this post. It's probably one of the kinder things we can't seem to stop from happening in the M.E. I wonder if the increased number of children suffering from cancers can get their hands on it? That's where the morphine needs to go. I wonder where the heroin is ending up?

The Highjacking of a Nation
by Sibel Edmonds
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes."Justice Felix Frankfurter