This weapons of mass destruction thing is just a mantra. It is repeated so many times that it does not mean anything anymore besides the tranquilizing effect. A way of saying fuck you all we can attack whoever we want and for the reasons we want. No one is going to stop us and if our "reasons" are crap for you we do not care. We won't even produce evidence for those "reasons" ourselves afterwards. As we do not need to. We are the emperors of the world. And everyone who criticises us has just not understood who is the boss.

An extremely trustworthy base for a future democracy in Iraq, don't you think? As the court decision who brought Bush to power. I would really like to think that everything will be going fine now, the whole Middle and Near East will be democratised and peace will be everywhere but sorry I don't see it happen. Maybe I am too skeptical for this new world. Or even worse: too old and too European.

Matthew Ingram on ten forgotten Krautrock records of which I don't own one (as you can see I am not an aficionado of German rock music, I discovered Neu! only last year, Kraftwerk never did anything for me).

The German orthography of Mr Ingram is far from perfect (no offense intended) but it's fun: Album #7 Deutshe Amerikanische Freundshaft: Die Klienen und Die Bosen for example should read Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft: Die Kleinen und die Bösen

Actually usually we abbreviate the name of that band to DAF. There is a grain of irony in that name (German American friendship) I suppose. Especially in view of recent developments in our relation. Sad but true. Unfortunately the small DAF tour this year with concerts in Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Munich last week is already over. Apparently (German review) it went all right for those provocative rock dinosaurs. In a way they are the missing link between punk and techno.