* Straw: Saddam is a war criminal - Plus, also steps up Syria rhetoric - ridiculous. If the US invades Syria...

"As the foreign secretary welcomed a "new and much better chapter" in the history of Iraq, he also cast a warning in the direction of Syria.

He said the UK would "look to the government of Syria to discontinue any actions already taken from assisting this regime.""


* ZMag Editorial - Iraq: War and Democracy - by Stephen Shalom, ZMag April 2003 Volume 16 Number 4

" There are many good reasons to be skeptical that a U.S. military assault will result in any sort of meaningful democracy. First, one only has to look at who the supposed agent of this democratic flowering is to be: George W. Bush, who rules the United States illegitimately, having stolen the 2000 election, and who presides over the most serious assault on the basic democratic rights of the people of the United States in over half a century. Second, one should look at the long record of U.S. foreign policy."