Projection in high places

President Bush, 9/20/01: "(Terrorists) are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to camps ... where they are trained in the tactics of terror."

According to a Pentagon spokesman, the military expects to use, in the first days of a war against Iraq, an intensive kind of bombing campaign called "shock and awe."

In the words of LA Weekly's John Powers, "Modern warfare isn't only about killing — it's about inspiring mass terror. That's why on the first day of Gulf War II: Die Harder, the Pentagon reportedly intends to launch 300 to 400 cruise missiles at targets in Iraq — more than during the entire 40 days of the first Gulf War."

President Bush, 2/8/03: "The Iraqi regime's violations of Security Council Resolutions are evident, ... and they continue to this hour."

The US and Israel have defied UN resolutions on Palestine for decades. In the words of Anatol Lieven, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writing in Britain's The Guardian, "U.S. and Israeli defiance of the UN on a whole range of issues has gravely undermined Bush's own credibility..." (9/13/02, quoted by Radio Free Europe)

President Bush, 3/1/03: "This dictator (Saddam Hussein) will not be allowed ... to supply his terrible weapons to terrorist groups..."

During the Iran-Iraq war, the United States supplied Saddam Hussein with biological weapons to use against Iraq.

President Bush, 3/1/03: "(Saddam Hussein) could destroy natural resources."

Like the Wildlife Arctic Refuge?
Yucca Mountain in Utah?

President Bush, 3/1/03: "All (Iraqi) citizens must have their rights protected."

American citizens are subject to the USA Patriot Act, which allows the US government to:

• deny you access to an attorney
• investigate your home without your knowledge
• obtain your medical and financial records
• records of your book purchases and library visits
• tap your phone
• infiltrate and monitor the peaceful groups to which you belong, including religious congregations, without probable cause or criminal suspicion.

President Bush, 3/1/03: "We will provide security against those who try to spread chaos..."

Whose plans to act unilaterally have divided the United Nations Security Council? Whose actions have brought hundreds of thousands of demonstrators to the streets to protest a war with Iraq?

Does President Bush's urgent need for war on Iraq have anything to do with "scores" he is settling on behalf of his father?

Secretary of State Colin Powell, 3/6/03, regarding North Korea: "This is not just a problem between the United States and North Korea. That's the way they want to see it. It's a problem between North Korea and the international community."

And Iraq is different how?

Administration officials complain that France, instead of threatening to veto the United States' move toward war, should be "grateful" for our liberating them from the Nazis during World War II.

If France hadn't helped the colonies in their war against Britain during the American Revolution, there wouldn't be a United States.
Are we grateful? Or are we renaming French fries?

Pentagon officials, 3/25/03, complain that Iraqi soldiers fighting in civilian clothes are violating the "rules of warfare."

Remember the American Revolution, guys?
When our side wore civilian clothes, and the British wore red coats?