Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The flight to India: "For centuries, we have permitted ourselves to ignore the extent to which our welfare is dependent on the denial of other people's. We begin to understand the implications of the system we have created only when it turns against ourselves. "

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Is Iraq damaging President Bush's popularity?: "His overall popularity does not particularly matter. The hard core of his supporters are the big corporations that gain from his tax cuts, US supremacists, and right-wing Christians that believe that Bill Clinton was the anti-Christ. To them he can do nothing wrong, and they will go out and vote for him whatever happens. Sadly to say, a large part of 'middle America' also believes the media claims that he is 'a popular wartime President'. If ever a US President was hyped, Dubya is the one.
Lars Backstrom, USA "

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Is Iraq damaging President Bush's popularity?: "Iraq is not damaging Bush's popularity but Bush's popularity is damaging Iraq irretrievably. His inhuman manoeuvres has cost tens of thousands of lives. Yet the people of this country support him without even thinking about the lies that he told us. We are coming to accept aggression, violence, exploitation and imperialism as part of our daily views. Come on we need to think sanely and STOP him
Manna, US "

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Is Iraq damaging President Bush's popularity?: "George W Bush and Tony Bair opened Pandora's Box in the Middle East, without the support of the United Nations and against the wishes of the international community. Now they are finding out that the consequences of their insane and criminal actions are too costly in lives and dollars, and they want to spread the burden among the international community. But why should the U.N. and the world's population be made to pay for their arrogance and abuse of power? Let the 'coalition forces' reap what they sowed.
A.Cuschieri, Canada "

Did war compromise al-Qaida hunt?: "BUT, AS “Operation Enduring Freedom” kept al-Qaida on the run, the White House was already planning for war against Iraq. Sources say that in the spring of 2002, key weapons in the war against terror — such as the commandos, the drones and the high-tech surveillance planes — were rotated out of Afghanistan. Now experts tell NBC there was a clear tradeoff as the United States let up on al-Qaida to pursue regime change in Iraq."

Bush takes blame for nuclear claim: "WASHINGTON, July 30 — President Bush on Wednesday accepted personal responsibility for a controversial portion of last winter’s State of the Union address in which he asserted that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear material in Africa."

"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier,
a dangerous quality in the captain, and a
positive crime in the statesman."
George Santayana

"Bring them on."
George W. Bush

New Arab press freedoms after Iraq?: "As Iraq enters a postwar phase, the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) has lauded the country�s newfound press freedom on the one hand, but issued an order entitled �Prohibited Media Activity� on the other.



Order No. 14 was enacted to stop incitement of attacks on coalition forces and Iraqis working with them. But the edict, which, according to the CPA�s Web page, allows �onsite inspections of Iraqi media organizations, without notice,� and the confiscation of their property and closure of their premises without compensation, has some Iraqis fearing that the list of prohibitions could be loosely interpreted and used to crush their long-awaited right to free speech. "

New Arab press freedoms after Iraq?: "In the lead-up to the war in Iraq, the Bush administration asserted that regime change would create a new atmosphere of liberation and democracy for the entire Middle East.
However, Arab satellite stations have recently come under attack from the United States, which says that their coverage from Iraq was biased and incited violence against U.S. troops."

Google Groups: Bekijk thread "I was in the country of WAR CRIMINAL!": "The Americans dwell with the positive because it makes them feel good, but
this has nothing to do with reality. American heroism is only made up by the
media and politics. It is good for the ratings, and what is good for ratings
is good for advertisers, and what is good for advertisers is good the
tv-station: it means more profit, and that is their only reason of
existence. "

Body found in U.K. fuels Iraq row
"THE FAMILY of David Kelly, a soft-spoken microbiologist who had worked as a U.N. weapons inspector, had reported him missing after he went out for a walk on Thursday with no coat despite a heavy rainstorm."
"The ministry said Friday that Kelly had been told he had violated civil service rules by having unauthorized contact with a journalist, but “that was the end of it.” It said Kelly had at no point been threatened with suspension or dismissal after admitting speaking to the BBC reporter."

Blair defends U.S.-led war in Iraq

of course in UK the government needs to explain but in usa??

On Iraq, d�j� vu all over again?: "
If Bush team exaggerated, it had ample precedent
In October 1990, a teenager calling herself 'Nayirah' told lawmakers that she had seen Iraqi soldiers removing Kuwaiti babies from incubators, leaving them 'to die on the cold floor.' After the 1991 Gulf War, the accusations were debunked, and 'Nayirah' turned out to be the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the United States."

On Iraq, déjà vu all over again?: "In October 1990, a teenager calling herself 'Nayirah' told lawmakers that she had seen Iraqi soldiers removing Kuwaiti babies from incubators, leaving them 'to die on the cold floor.' After the 1991 Gulf War, the accusations were debunked, and 'Nayirah' turned out to be the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the United States."

A Nation desperate for War: "Or were the documents, as some investigators suspect, a scam perpetrated by con men who sought to make money off the material by exploiting the widely known American interest in finding damaging evidence about the Iraqi regime? "

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | US forces in Iraq: Is there a crisis of morale?: "My heart goes out to the military and their families. The military should not have been sent there in the first place. What Bush's true motives were, we can only guess. I hope that Americans wake up and throw his regime out of office next year!!!
David Hamlin, US "

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | US forces in Iraq: Is there a crisis of morale?: "I just watched an interview with an unnamed soldier of the 3rd Division. When the reporter asked what he would say to Donald Rumsfeld, if he were there, he replied, 'I would ask him for his resignation'. Another soldier said that he 'doesn't believe anything the army tells him now.' This is disturbing. These soldiers and their buddies clearly believe that the chain of command has broken faith with them. This would indicate that their officers also are angry. I am an American soldier myself, and this really worries me, more than reports of violence against our forces.
Michael G, US "

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | US forces in Iraq: Is there a crisis of morale?: "I strongly opposed the fact that U.S troops were sent to Iraq in the first place. U.S hegemony has now gone too far. What do you call a country invading another without consent and imposing a government which will be controlled by them? Well I learnt that such a thing is called imperialism..
Marcia Ashong, USA/Ghana "

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | US forces in Iraq: Is there a crisis of morale?: "I don't think they have any choice but to stay. US forces are still in Japan and Western Europe, what makes people think that this will be different if the US wants to maintain and enhance its sphere of influence? Speaking of which, why is the UK still in Germany? Are we making sure they don't attack the Italians?
David D, USA (ex-UK) "

MSNBC -- The Big Picture

Take a look back at the reasons to go to war again and the promises made