The real truth is you Americans are in a position to do something about the Empire before it turns into a millstone around your neck and the necks of your children for centuries to come.

Take the English for example. Disliked (if not despised) by many of our fellow Isle inhabitants (even if we're all related), for the actions of arrogant, aggressive and self serving men (and one woman) over the last centuries.

None of these are my fault, or the fault of many English people alive today. My family were farmers and gardners, and probably were for many centuries previously. Simple working folk exploited and sometimes sent to die in conflicts they neither understood or started.

But there are plenty of people who will tar me with the same brush they reserve for oppressors like every monarch we've had for the last 1500 years or Cromwell or the army or big exploitative business or . . .

It's the little people who suffer in these situations, not George W., or Cheyney or Blair or Prescott or any of the other morons in charge. Believe me - they're quite comfortable. Ordinary Americans can stop this lunatic - and would be wise to do so because the centuries of hate him and his cronies will rack up for your innnocent children to deal with are a heavy price to pay indeed.