Weez, did you watch it? Have you any idea why England, Australia and New Zealand have any interest in this stupid movie?

This morning on BBC radio Lise Dusett (sp?) was running a call-in show about how YOUR life is changed since 9/11. I could have thrown the radio at the wall.

How about something pertinent like how has the average Iraqi’s life changed since we invaded? How has a soldier’s family’s life changed since we invaded? In my voluntere work for the Democratic party I met a woman who had just sent off her 57-yr old husband, who flew helicopters in Vietnam, back to “the front.” We have data about the bankruptcies, the domestic violence, the divorce rates in the families of the reserves, the National Guards, the regular army who have done 4 tours back-to-back.

OK, a bit off topic.

But this obsession with 9/11? I don’t get it. Sure it was traumatic. But the signs were pointing that way, with the WTC bombing, the embassy bombing, the USS Cole bombing, the increasing hostility towards US foreign policies that are purely self-interested.

The US does not need a great big global pity party for the fifth annivesary of 9/11.

What we need is a big global mirror so we can see what we look like to the rest of the world.

Sozzy, I watched most of it, but got it all on tape for later dissection.

The UK & Australia of course both have sent troops to Iraq, giving their citizenry a more direct concern about false information about Bush’s Iraq War than some other nations.

‘Big global mirrors’ would be useful if some folk- like King George and John Howard- didn’t choose to be blind.

The version aired on Seven in Australia last night was in fact the unexpurgated, false and defamatory version, touted by Seven as “The story of what exactly happened.” This will be attracting a complaint to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

Also, quite a large percentage of Australian television programming comes from overseas, notably the USA. Several Australian TV networks have agreements with some US networks to air US content. We may or may not have a specific interest in every whipstitch surrounding 9/11, but we’re force-fed quite a lot of crap from the US.

I have often referred to Australia as the ’51st American state’ due to the amount of US content carried on Australian television as a matter of course.

The amount of American material forcefed us on TV was brought home to me with great clarity this morning when the togster told me he’d seen a friend “on the sidewalk”. Eep!

It took ages when he was younger to train him to say “zed” instead of the Sesame Street “zee”, too.

Unfortunately a lot of people will unquestioningly accept this docudrama’s version of events in just the same way as my son accepted “zee”.