A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein,” Mr Bush said in an interview with the US ABC TV network.

Shorter Bush: It wasn’t me, it was Dick Cheney who cherry picked and stovepiped that unsubstantiated intel which I found on my desk when I was looking for an excuse to go to war.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPBdWjIrUn4

Heavy political stuff going down in Canada. A change of Govt is on the cards with the three opposition parties looking to form a coalition … I’m puzzled as to why they didn’t do this immediately after the election, they always had the numbers to go to the GG with this proposition anyway.

Paul@4 – if it’s anything like what happens in Australia, the GG calls in the Prime Minister who called the election and asks if he/she can form a government. If he says yes, the old government is back in and there’s no call to send for the opposition. The only thing they can do now is force a motion of no confidence, which is more in line with democratic principles and rendering the GG as a rubber stamp rather than a player.

It’s at Brisbane Square, George St, (just across George St from the end of the Queen St Mall) from 11am.

For other states, check here:

http://nocensorship.info/forum/index.php

Jobs a good ‘un, sit back and have a beer.

In any event, it’s put paid to the theory that the shell evolved from skin.

The catch is that the day saw several people video conference in and the experience was pretty darn ordinary. Cameras didn’t work, connection failed, people couldn’t hear what was going on at the main location. I suspect that an hour of that would have had me thinking that I should have taken the flight down after all.

Its sure to improve, but I think we’ve been holding out for video conferencing as the future since the 1989 pilots’ strike, when the alternative was sometimes to take an RAAF Hercules down to the meeting.