Seven years later

And the wars go on, fluctuating, mutating, expanding but always killing innocent people. Bush sounded as dreadful as I've ever heard him at today's ghastly memorial for the 2001 'attacks'.

Democracy is now an even more tarnished word, Britain is damaged goods but most of all, most importantly of all, the Iraqi people have been torn apart by the senseless actions of one lousy American administration out for 'revenge'.

How the world has changed. Yawn