2003 -- Iraq: The Bush Regime's war against the Hussein Regime continues. The "Bush Doctrine" of preemptive war, formulated by a small clique of White House staff "neo-conservatives" who have long been advocating killing Saddam & urging an aggressive effort bya teh US to dominate the world politically & economically, is the most radical revision of American foreign policy in over 200 years. Bush has flouted the Geneva Convention by refusing to recognize captured Taliban soldiers as Prisoners of War. He has sabotaged attempts to halt the small arms trade, & demanded American immunity from future prosecution for war crimes in the International Criminal Court. Bush covets the power to wage war whenever, & wherever he pleases, in direct defiance of international law. With military bases in more than 40 countries, the US has a peace-time military budget larger than that of the other nine leading military powers COMBINED. That budget is now growing astronomically with Iraqi war appropriations. BUNSEN BURNER DAY. Flames A bright burning flame A smoking smell around The bunsen burners on The science has begun All the flames are burning And everyone is learning. — Lia Wainwright-Powers March comes in like a lion & goes out like a lamb. — John Fletcher, “A Wife for a Month “ It is either the beginning or the end of the world, & the choice is ourselves or nothing. — Carolyn Forche from "Ourselves or Nothing"
— Randolph Bourne
