To the tune of:'Guide me oh thy great Redeemer'Guide me Bush thy great deciever,Through this strange and foreign land,They are weak and you are mighty,Smite the Muslims with your hand!Bombs are fabulous,Bombs are marvellous,Bomb them till they are al

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I'd escaped from the press of Saigon and my ever present girlfriend, Thi, for a week and indulged in a tranquil idyll, on the resort peninsula of Vung Tau. Vung Tau was where the American puppet government of South Vietnam sent its political prisoner

April fools day used to be known as All Fool's day, but where did it come from and why is it celebrated? There are many theories, the preponderant one claiming that the day has its origins in the late sixteenth century, when the Gregorian calendar wa