TOKYO, March 18 Kyodo chooseed ed...

TOKYO, March 18 Kyodo

chooseed editorial excerpts from the Asia-Pacific press:

in the way that WAR IT IS THEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST+ (The Nation, Bangkok)

Barring a miracle, we have approach to the end of the line; an attack upon Iraq is now only a matter of days if not hours away. on a level before the U.N. Security Council met last night, U President George Bush and his British ally Tony Blair had declared that an attack onward Iraq would be legal whatever the world carcass decided. The two levy their attorneys-general to work to back up their case. Whatever legal mumbo-jumbo they proceed up with, it is worth remembering the following:

In 15 month Washington in no degree proved any of its charges against Iraq's Saddam Hussein. No evidence always surfaced of the supposed links to al-Qaeda (al-Qaida), or of an active nuclear program...

Saddam's longest-range missiles travel alone 600 kilometers. He has none threatened to attack America...

Enfeebling the UN?

in the same manner went the argument that the world material part would be made irrelevant if Saddam were allowed to disregard U.N. resolutions.

Since 1968 Israel, with the help of the United States, has ignored 12 UN Security Council resolutions. through the same period, Turkey has ignored three of that kind resolutions.

The double standard was thrown away on no one.

In individual of his last statements upon the United Nations, Bush castigated the dead body for failing to halt the slaughter of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo or the genocide in Rwanda and said it should be revamped if Washington didn't get by heart its way on Iraq...

Remember the 2000 White House race: Bush said he would not have intervened to halt the massacres in Rwanda.

Regime change?

According to a observes Angeles Times report on Friday the State Department believes the White House's democratic-domino theory is bunkum and doubts that installing a novel regime in Iraq will rear up democracy in the Middle East.

novel history backs this up. The first abyss War shored up a despotic Saudi regime and reinstalled an elite and undemocratic Kuwaiti leadership that exhausted that conflict partying the nights away in Monaco casinos. Slightly older history also advises the State Department might be in succession to something...

The fact is that diplomacy was not at any time given a chance...

If this was a genuine attempt to find a peaceful solution to the Iraq question then America has never had an administration with equal reason inept at diplomacy.

The conclusion single is forced to make is that the last 15 month were not ever meant to find an alternative to war. This looming conflict in Iraq is about reinforcing the idea that American power should not be challenged.

If the Bush White House were sincere about protecting American interests it would engage North Korea...

Kim Jong Il's nuclear program isn't a rumor or a forgery...

Of all the inanities and illogicalities that have fence abouted Washington's relentless push for war perhaps none is bigger than the fact that the US got what it wanted without firing a single bullet Baghdad has backed down and agreed to cooperate with the UN inspectors. The Bush administration has done the world a great service by way of refocusing its attention on the potential threat that Saddam poses

Ye America won and now it's going to attack.

(March 18)

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