"The first casualty of war is the truth."

- Rudyarrd Kipling

Update on Gulf War II

In his January 2003 State Of The Union, President Bush made his case for war in Iraq.  He included this now-infamous 16-word deception about Iraq's nuclear capability: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

But the White House had known for nearly a year that this claim was false.  In February 2002, the CIA sent former Ambassador Joseph Wilson to Niger to investigate the unsubstantiated claim that Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium from Niger for use in nuclear weapons.

Wilson had discovered that the claims were bogus and documents used to support the claims had been forgeries.   He reported this to the CIA, and the CIA told the White House.

The New Old War

U.S./Britain/Israel War Plans

It is Illegal!

United Nations Charter: Article 2

The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.

1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.
   
2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.
   
3. All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.
   
4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
   
5. All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action.
   
6. The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security.
   
7. Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter Vll.

The Effects of A New War in Iraq:

Environmental Effects

Opposition to World War III (Desert Storm 2)

Who Is Against the War and Why?

Peace

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