Life in the Banana Patch

A collection of thoughts and asides about life. And if I think of anything that needs to be mocked, it will show up here.

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
--Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

The election in Iraq is over, and the Shiite coalition that won has US officials making sure that the Iraqi Shiites are conected to Iranian Shiites, the faction in power in that country.

I have always been concerned about Dubya's plan to bring democracy to Iraq. I have expected that an election in Iraq would bring a fundamentalist to power, and we would wind up with another Iran. It's beginning to look like that will happen.

Right now, the Iraqis are denying any influence from Iran. But what happens when we invade Iraq because they have WMDs?