"The Palestinians of occupied East Jerusalem have the same legal status as Palestinians in the rest of the Occupied Territories. Israel’s annexation or changing of the legal status of East Jerusalem or its residents has no legal validity according to the international community and international law."

"There is widespread cynicism about the possibility of the elections taking place as scheduled, considering the conditions in the country."

"Karzai and Bush have proclaimed that the reported registration of more than 10.5 million Afghans to cast ballots in the presidential elections is evidence of their success in bringing democracy to Afghanistan. This number, according to an Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) report in September 2004, may "well exceed 11.5 million -- roughly half the estimated population of Afghanistan" once the registration of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran is completed."

"If the US is serious about the effort to see a thriving and effective independent media, it must supplement any programming efforts on the ground with an articulate public approach that reflects the issues called for by Arab journalists themselves and the freedom-seeking Arab population as a whole. Otherwise, this latest effort will be a waste of money and yet another lost opportunity."

"The real reason for the war was the neo-cons and their agenda to redesign the Middle East to fit the exotic tastes of Ariel Sharon. Know your neo-cons and you will understand the causes of the Mess on Potamia."

"Bush and Cheney have been stumbling when confronted with information about their deceptions on Iraq. Their biggest enemies are memory and videotape."

"In the United States, the government has been at war, more or less, since 1940, which is to say, in Madison’s phrase, engaged in “continual warfare” or in massive preparation for warfare. Can anyone seriously maintain that we are now freer or more secure than we were before the sainted Franklin D. Roosevelt and his spiritual descendants took command of the ship of state and steered it into the storm of perpetual war?"

"The verdict is that Bush and all those who supported his decision to invade and occupy Iraq are guilty of mass destruction and continued massacre in Iraq. The crisis will go on and on unless immediate steps are taken to punish the guilty and make a course correction to clean up the mess."