I heard Perle say just now on the radio that Iraq is a free country and does not need the involvement of a UN 'bureaucracy'. His definition if freedom is rather odd -read: grotesque- and the Franco-Russian 'blackmail' is a perfectly appropriate response. We threatened blackmail to get them on board, they balked and are now returning the favor.

Hans Blix.

We are holding Children at Guantanamo.

Any thought that we have some sort of moral superiority over anyone else here, with the possible exception a few Ba'ath party officials, is fucking absurd.