Just a couple of news, these were reported several times by Spanish TV news this latter week:
-Looters have assaulted the Iraki ministry of Health. They have taken away the samples of viruses that were in storage for medical investigation (cholera, AIDS and that). The marines in the area were commanded "to stay away from the building in order to prevent any risk".
Funny, isn`t it? Now those viruses maybe are being auctioned to any psycho killer or terrorist group that wants to play with them. Is this what Bush claims to be "a war against terror"?
-The national library has been burned, then some priceless cultural treasures spoiled for ever. Also the Archaeological museum was looted; it contained lots of remains from ancient Middle East civilizations (Babylon, Ur, Ninive and all that Iraki stuff). The American troops stood around, carefully surveying the looting operation...and doing nothing.
In any case, they protected the oil pits from the very beginning. Priorities are priorities...
-The soldier who shot Palestine hotel claims no one told him that journalists were staying there. The Spanish minister for foreign affairs refuses to condemn the attack.
-The American government has started to point the companies which will make profit from "reconstruction", in a not-too-legal process where, funny enough, former secretaries of state and Pentagon advisors happen to be, in the same time, managers of the chosen companies.
And I can`t believe how can ANY foreigner dare to critizice Iceland, the oldest and most stable democracy in the world, the first Parliament on Earth, the highest quality of life according to all surveys, the best preserved Environment, and so on and on...
By the way, I think Njall`s saga and the Eddas, both Icelandic works of literature, are the BEST ever written.