An illegal war

If a war without U.N. support is illegal, and Bush starts the war, then that makes Bush a war criminal.

“The question of whether a war on Iraq is legal under international law will become more pressing if the United States and Britain fail to get a new Security Council resolution.

They say the use of force would be legal but the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says unilateral action taken outside the Security Council would not conform to the UN charter.

The UN charter allows military action in self-defence and that can include a pre-emptive strike - but only if there is an imminent threat.

Few accept that Iraq poses such a threat. So the question comes back to authorisation by the Security Council.”

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A hint of what’s coming

Hundreds of antiwar protesters clogged streets in the S.F. financial district, in an attempt to shut it down. 

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FBI probes fake evidence of Iraqi nuclear plans

The FBI is looking into the forgery of a key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program, including the possibility that a foreign government is using a deception campaign to foster support for military action against Iraq.

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In her column today “Molly Ivins says,  ‘Have you ever seen such amazing arrogance coupled with such awesome incompetence?’ Wow, and no matter how you cut it, bad news for this country.”

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If bombs may rain in Baghdad, what’s a little rain here?

The weather forecast for the major protests tomorrow in S.F. and L.A. is heavy rain.

If this happens, then the rallies may be short, but we can certainly march. Rain or no rain.

Considering what’s about to happen to the planet, we can take a little rain. I’ll be there (in full Gore-Tex!). Hope you make it too.

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Those zany Germans!

From Boing Boing 

“A carnival float shows paper mache figure of German conservative opposition leader Angela Merkel emerging from the buttocks of Uncle Sam during the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in Duesseldorf, March 3, 2003. Merkel has strongly criticized the German government’s anti-Iraq war stance and recently visited Washington.”

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 U.S., Britain, Spain to Hold Iraq crisis summit

The United States will hold an emergency summit with allies Britain and Spain in the mid-Atlantic on Sunday in a last-ditch bid to overcome opposition in the U.N. Security Council to plans for war on Iraq, the White House said on Friday.

Washington says that it can attack Iraq without clear U.N. backing but Russia, Germany and France all refused to drop opposition on Friday to any rapid military action by some 250,000 U.S. and British troops massed in the Gulf region.

The hawks are in serious trouble. The resolution won’t pass. If Blair then chooses war, he will be charged with war crimes by some quite serious international law lawyers, not to mention the absolute certainty of major strikes and unrest. Here in the U.S., direct nonviolent actions will no doubt happen in dozens of cities, most notably S.F. where they plan to shut the financial district down.

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The quisling of Belgrade

“The murdered Serbian prime minister was a reviled western stooge whose economic reforms brought misery.”

Guess who put him into power…

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