Tony Blair privately conceded two weeks before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein did not have any usable weapons of mass destruction, former British foreign secretary Robin Cook has claimed.

The Wall Street Journal wonders why no one has made anything of the curious fact that arnie hired a consultant whose two former wives testified that he beat them.

We may not get a better Iraq out of this war, but let's at least make sure we get a better America.

’Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.’’ - Martin Luther King

As John F. Kennedy said, ''Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.''

''Either man is obsolete or war is.''- Buckminster Fuller

On 11 September, more than 35,000 of the world's children died of starvation.


Americans are the most patriotic people in the survey: 72% say they are very proud of their country (and this bit of the poll was taken before September 2001). That puts America in the same category as India and Turkey. The survey reckons religious attitudes are the single most important component of traditionalism. On that score, Americans are closer to Nigerians and Turks than Germans or Swedes.
Of course, America is hardly monolithic. It is strikingly traditional on average. But, to generalise wildly, that average is made up of two Americas: one that is almost as secular as Europe (and tends to vote Democratic), and one that is more traditionalist than the average (and tends to vote Republican).