Firstly, from one of the world most intelligent and knowledgeable men, Noam Chomsky is this article, written on March 20th, 2003 (invasion day). I can relate to this, I felt dispair. I felt raped and beaten. I felt like my right to object reasonably to those representing me was just washed away. But that didn't matter to me, because that wasn't the problem. The problem was Iraq.

Those poor people are about to be subjugated to the treatment of the American Military.
The most feared in the world [bar china?], and yet... Who wants to help? Who is offering them food while they are unable to contact their suppliers.... Where is the medical aid??? Who is going to help!?!?!?! WHY CANT I!?!?!?!

The truth is I was in tears inside all day, and outside for half of it.
Had I been blogging then, I am sure there would've been some choice' words thrown around.
-- so here it is(the article, not the list of choice words).

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20030320.htm


---------- and for those who wont go look- heres a couple of choice paragraphs for you :)

But the issues are much more fundamental, and long range. Opposition to the invasion of Iraqhas been entirely without historical precedent. That is why Bush had to meet his two cronies at a USmilitary base on an island, where they would be safely removed from any mere people. The opposition may be focused on the invasion of Iraq, but its concerns go far beyond that. There is growing fear of USpower, which is considered to be the greatest threat to peace in much of the world, probably by a large majority. And with the technology of destruction now at hand, rapidly becoming more lethal and ominous, threat to peace means threat to survival.

Fear of the USgovernment is not based solely on this invasion, but on the background from which it arises: An openly-declared determination to rule the world by force, the one dimension in which USpower is supreme, and to make sure that there will never be any challenge to that domination. Preventive wars are to be fought at will: Preventive, not Pre-emptive. Whatever the justifications for pre-emptive war might sometimes be, they do not hold for the very different category of preventive war: the use of military force to eliminate an imagined or invented threat. The openly-announced goal is to prevent any challenge to the “power, position, and prestige of the United States.” Such challenge, now or in the future, and any sign that it may emerge, will be met with overwhelming force by the rulers of the country that now apparently outspends the rest of the world combined on means of violence, and is forging new and very dangerous paths over near-unanimous world opposition: development of lethal weaponry in space, for example.

It is worth bearing in mind that the words I quoted are not those of Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld or other radical statist extremists now in charge. Rather, they are the words of the respected elder statesman Dean Acheson, 40 years ago, when he was a senior advisor to the Kennedy Administration. He was justifying US actions against Cuba– knowing that the international terrorist campaign aimed at “regime change” had just brought the world close to terminal nuclear war. Nevertheless, he instructed the American Society of International Law, no “legal issue” arises in the case of a USresponse to a challenge to its “power, position, and prestige,” specifically terrorist attacks and economic warfare against Cuba.

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and another great quote

--Just a few days ago, the head of the non-aligned movement, which includes the governments of most of the world’s population, described the Bush administration as more aggressive than Hitler. He happens to be very pro-American, and right in the middle of Washington’s international economic projects. And there is little doubt that he speaks for many of the traditional victims, and by now even for many of their traditional oppressors
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For more on the 'non-aligned movement'
**which we should all read -including myself-[I am now]**
see this site
http://www.nam.gov.za/background/background.htm

Over and Out.
peace be with you :)

[olivebranch]