1) Plans show that the US Embassy in Baghdad will be one of the largest bases on the planet. It looks nothing like the embassy of a liberal democracy, but more like the fortress of a totalitarian army – the Ministry of Love springs to mind.

2) The Hydrocarbon Law written by the oil companies, which gives them near total control of Iraq’s oil and its profits, contains contract language giving them an unprecedented 30 year lock on that resource. Approval of this law by the Iraqi Parliament is considered a “benchmark” by Democrats and Republicans and will almost certainly lead to generations of poverty for the Iraqi people as the oil profits are rapidly exported.

3) Bush reveals that he expects US troops to be in Iraq for at least 50 years ala South Korea!

4) The military and civilian leadership remains unable to wrap their minds around the fact that we’re foreign invaders and the Iraqis want us to leave. They still act shocked when they find US trained Iraqi troops fighting our soldiers.

One wonders how much stupidity, corruption and incompetence our country can stand - no one seems able to stop this lunacy.

Signed, Osama bin Laden.