This war gives me nightmares. Both the USA and UK have abandoned the “liberation” charade and are clearly focussing on the main objectives – the Iraqi oil fields.

Just now, I watched a live interview on BBC with some guy who asked a very valid question – why are the Americans bombing the Iraqi palace and other historical sites, when Saddam Hussain and his commanders very clearly aren’t there?

I really don’t care if Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. That is unproven, and even if they are “discovered” during this campaign (something I would question with greatest intensity – how do we know that they weren’t placed there by the US/UK forces to prove a point?), there is no proof that Saddam was planning to use them (or had planned to in the last 12 years).

What *is* proven, however, is the fact that the USA *does* have weapons of mass destruction, and their foremost war-monger, George Bush himself, has clearly stated that they wouldn’t hesitate to use them.

I am scared, and I am not ashamed to say so. I have been a bully for most of my life, and I know how easy it is to “extend” justification to achieve something. What stops the USA (which has, in the past 18 months, annexed two sovereign states) from attacking my homeland some time in the future, if it feels that there is something to gain from that?

Right now, the USA is annexing Iraq because it has something the USA wants – 66% of the available oil reserves.

Tomorrow, what stops George Bush (or rather – one of his successors, since he isn’t going last very long – remember that no war-monger president of the USA has ever won a re-election in the past century or so) from annexing India, because India has the world’s largest pool of English speaking, technically competent engineers? The American software industry would collapse in days without India’s software brains. That is more than enough justification, right?

Call me paranoid, call me unrealistic, call me a US-basher, call me what you want. But what I am seeing here, unfolding before me, is the end of civilization as we knew it.