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Now that it's been established that he had no chemical weapons except some rather pungent moustache creams, our Government have adopted the stance that we also invaded because of his treatment of his own people. OK whatever,..I'm exhausted from it all, I believe you. Fair do's. A nasty horrible regime finished with. High-five to our respective Governments.

Now then...since we have such an aggressive, confrontational approach to such regimes, I can only assume we'll be sending something in the region of 50-100,000 troops to Burma in the next couple of weeks to sort out their Military Junta who appear to be on the brink of slaughtering some cute little peaceful monks, yes? I hope so, because this looks to me to be on the verge of something akin to the Tiananmen Square massacre...only this time it's worse, ...much much much worse.

Tiananmen Square was about slaughtering a bunch of mouthy students weren't it..bah...let's face it, if the Metropolitan Police starting firing tear gas and tazering a bunch of freshers in silly baggy jumpers in Trafalger Square, most of whom hadn't done a hard days work in their lives, we'd all be praising the rozzers and laughing our heads off.

These are Buddhist monks though. If it were Christian monks in silly brown robes I wouldn't give a shit. I have no time for religions as a rule, but Buddhists are different. It's not even a religion really, cause religions are just excuses to have wars (right on!)...Buddhism appears to be about sitting on your head for weeks on end and learning how to fly and float and turn yourself into a butterfly and so on. So, I'm sorry Burmese Military Junta, but you can't slaughter a people who's only purpose in life is to awaken from the sleep of ignorance on the way to perfect enlightenment and who burst into tears if they accidentally squash a beetle.

So what are we doing and what are Burma's neighbours doing about this? China, who are best mates with this Miltary Junta, would obviously love nothing more than dust off their tanks and roll into the place and squash everything, especially when it's more students and a bunch of monks in bare feet and bed sheets who have nothing but prayers to fight back with, but they're busy trying to fool everyone into thinking they're human and until the Olympics are over, this charade should continue.

India are still celebrating their cricket 20-20 world cup victory and will be for quite some time so no help there. America and the UK will issue statements about how the Junta better jolly well end this peacefully or else....or else, well, sanctions by god...which will mean the population will starve,..see Iraqi civilians and their stone-age standard lifestyle during UN sanctions between the two wars. But sanction is all we can manage I'm afraid Monks, cause well, no one in their right mind would attack a country who had China as their best mate. Olympics or no Olympics, sorry, nope...not to save a bunch of monks who don't own oil.

All things considered, these Monks are on their own and I'm afraid this is, as an anonymous UN dude cautioned, "a perfect storm." I can only see this ending in the most appalling slaughtering of people since, well, since the last peaceful protest.

This is the problem with peaceful protests people...they are invariably protests against people who have no conscience or no sense of humanity or they don't recognise you as being human in the first place so you end up as just another National Geographic Documentary. I mean fair play for having principles, but well, you know, be alive too. I mean it don't make much sense to me to have so much respect for all forms of life including wasps, and yet not extend the same level of respect to your own life.

I think on this one occasion these Monks ought to put all that kung-fu and what not to use. What's the point in learning how to kick a tree down or turn yourself into a leopard, if, when those skills become useful, you're just gonna sit around chanting while thousands of you are mown down by a hail of bullets in five to ten minutes?

If this was a fair fight and the army dropped their guns and dooked it out, they'd have no chance, but of course, that would be silly, ....the rats. So Monks, if you can change into animals, on this occasion, change into rats also, and once you've given them a thrashing, change back into humans. No one will mind and no one will think any less of you or your small detour on your journey to enlightenment. Everyone gets lost on long journeys anyway.