" Americans were furious and are now blaming the military for not leaning upon the civilian leaders to comply with American wishes. American respect and enthusiasm for democracy abroad vary in accordance with its own interests. "

Eventually, the U.S. commander -- none other than Colin Powell himself -- admitted that there had been no massing of Iraqi troops. But by then the so-called evidence had served its purpose.

"To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be "a high crime" under the Constitution's impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony "to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose."

Hussein has $1.3 billion in cash, taken from the Central Bank on March 18, is bent on revenge and believes he can "sit it out and get the Americans going," said Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress.... Referring to "very credible information" as the basis for his allegations,

George W. Bush does not have sex. You just know this. Dubya is not one to even remotely appreciate or even care about much less understand anything at all regarding the messy glorious divinity of women or women's pleasure and the true sticky all-American pastime.

If Stewart is the face of capitalist excess, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the poster children for government-sponsored gluttony. The potential fall of Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae could rival the savings and loan collapse of the 1980s.

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan, JFK ruefully noted after the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

Or it may be that the next country on Bush’s “Axis of Evil” hit list is one invasion too far for the British public, which may in turn push the government in a more Eurocentric direction.

As of June 9, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported 311 suspected SARS cases in the United States, 69 probable cases and no deaths. Yet Canada has had 33 deaths with a similar caseload, D'Cunha noted. "Just looking at the figures, they have me scratching me head,"

"I put in my copy: 'They may have been aiming at missile launchers in the area'. Then the Americans realised that if people put two and two together and realised that if they'd hit one of those launchers a lot more than 14 people would have been killed. Then they changed their minds and said the Iraqis must have hit themselves," she said.