Isn't it ironic?

Alliance troops removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, and then put in power a government in Iraq that appointed a man named Talibani as President.

Here's some more irony for you. This week the UK government loudly announced that they'd scrapped plans for a compulsory national biometric ID card scheme, partly because it was ridiculously unpopular and of course there is a general election coming up.

Also this week, the government quietly announced that anyone wanting a passport would have to visit one of 70 new passport offices to be interviewed and fingerprinted for a new national database. Even better, because passports are issued under royal prerogative, it doesn't need legislation to demand fingerprints from passport applicants! Yeah. It's all the Queens fault. Bitch.

That's not irony; that's hypocrisy.

They've been sneaking in biometrics for years in the US. Oh, sure, they call them "Child IDs" and pitch them to recover your child faster when they're lost.

While I don't like the methods employed, I do think the public is a little Luddite about fingerprint registry. You need to have some sort of ID already to drive, be employed, vote, or do a number of other necessary things... it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to just do it; at least we Americans might then be able to have some easy way to identify illegal aliens and deport them. But, that's another issue, and if you'd like to discuss it, I recommend starting a biometrics thread...