"It would have been nice to have John Kerry watch this mano a mano exchange between Bush and Robin Cook. Unfortunately, he was busy rehearsing sound bites for his stale encounter with Bush."

"The fact that both Kerry and Bush have used tortured logic to perpetuate an international crime bodes poorly for the Iraqi people at present and for the American people and the world at large for the indefinite future."

"The mercenaries’ operations are typical of the attitudes of Western governments: other people are considered less than human; their lives do not matter."

"Published reports suggest that Pakistan is given a very long rope to hang itself."

"Three of the Four Asian Tigers that have enjoyed sustained economic uplift, S. Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, have maintained large Armed Forces much beyond what their GNP could proportionately sustain."

"A Palestinian with no hope for the future, whose house and life have been bulldozed, who has suffered the death of one or more of his loved ones, is a ticking human bomb. He has nothing more to lose."

"George Bush's attempts to purchase Jewish votes have been paid for with Palestinian blood. He bears some of the moral guilt for the Taba killings. But we are all afraid to say so. Instead, we pretend that "terrorists" committed these acts, when terrorism has become endemic to the modern world."

"Stubbornly, Bush insists on "staying the course." On this disastrous course the war objectives cannot be met. If the course is not changed, the war is as good as lost."