Bush and Blair preparing for war within weeks.

New York Times

The Wall Street Journal found someone willing to support a legal interpretation that the United States can unilaterally enforce Resolution 1441 .

This is totally wrong - bogus. It argues from preambles and ignores statements in the Charter of the United Nations and in Resolution 1441 itself that reserves to the Security Council the full and only right to enforce this matter.

Of course, this is meaningless.

If Bush wants to disregard the UN Security Council and then blame the Security Council, he will.

Pax Americana

The Project for a New American Century gets its 2000 wish list and more.

The new budget places the US military spending at over $500 billion by the end of the decade.

"We're not only not cutting defense anymore, but we've come to the point where we're spending more money than we spent during the Cold War. Whether this is sustainable over the next six years is questionable."