… according to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency and/or Club of International Amateurs)

“[I]nvestigation into Saddam Hussein’s purported arsenal, the CIA[…] said his search for weapons of mass destruction “has been exhausted” without finding any.”

“The Bush administration justified its 2003 invasion of Iraq as necessary to eliminate Hussein’s purported stockpile of [Weapons of Mass Destruction]”

So, basically, the invasion of Iraq by British and US-led troops and the subsequent war, is based on a political lie (with the only objective, IMHO, of getting Bush re-elected). From some sources, “[Iraqi] oil infrastructure was secured for financial reasons as well as strategic”.

Being a cynic, I must say that during this illegal war, only few civilians died…

Only 24,000…

And, frankly, who cares?

They were only Iraqis after all…

Last night, we were at La Cuvette near Grand Baie until midnight. Of course, we had our usual “corne” party, drank a lot of Phoenix, sang segas and mari koz kaka (+ politik).

Here’s the those who were present : Prema & Ashvin ; Nyeshka & Jeneeta & Nirish ; Heishta & Neeta & Sanjeev ; Kyan & Anya & Christina & Avinash.

What was fantastic about this event is the atmosphere… It was exactly the same as what we had 10-15 years ago when we did our feu de camp at Flic en Flac.

(For those interested: the initial plan was to go to Choisy, but they because of lack of lighting (and some other more serious matters), we decided to go to La Cuvette. On the road, we bought some KFC in Grand Baie and drank 2 bottles of beer. Arriving at La Cuvette, the police told us that we couldn’t do a “foyer” so we were prepared to go to Ajeev’s place. But then, after negociations by yours truely :-), we finaly could light our fire at a very specific spot under a fantastic moonlight…)

Photo courtesy ilemaurice.org