Topic: Commander-In-Thief Bush Must Step Down
George W. Bush told us that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working together. They weren't. He repeatedly implied that Iraq had had something to do with 9/11. It hadn't. He claimed to have proof that Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons of mass destruction. He didn't. As our allies watched in horror and disgust, Bush conned us into a one-sided war of aggression that killed and maimed thousands of innocent people, destroyed billions of dollars in Iraqi infrastructure, cost tens of billions of dollars, cost the lives of American soldiers, and transformed our international image as the world's shining beacon of freedom into that of a marauding police state. Presidents Nixon and Clinton rightly faced impeachment for comparatively trivial offenses; if we hope to restore our nation's honor, George W. Bush too must face a president's gravest political sanction.

George Bush is the first unelected President of the United States, installed by a right-wing Supreme Court in a kind of judicial coup d'etat. He is the first to actively subvert one of the pillars of American democracy: the separation of church and state. There are now daily prayer meetings and Bible study groups in every branch of the government, and religious organisations are being given funds to take over educational and welfare programs that have always been the domain of the state.

The United States is planning to take control of parts of space and develop patrolling military aircraft in orbit as part of a revived Star Wars proposal for an American military empire above the ozone layer.
According to James Roche, the US Air Force Secretary, America's allies would have "no veto power" over projects
designed to achieve American military control of space.

Richard Perle speaking: "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there....
If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now." He means what he says.

CND are incensed at the lies and hypocrisy of the Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) of the G-8 following the summit in Evian. CND full heartedly agree with aims to end the proliferation of nuclear weapons yet are dismayed by the statements and actions of the NWS in particular those from the UK and US governments.

Historian accuses Washington of failing to face the facts
The United States is a "danger to the world" because of its denial that it is a military and economic empire, according to Niall Ferguson, historian and new-found darling of the American right.
Prof Ferguson is author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, the book whose tie-in TV series controversially concentrated on the liberalising latter days of the British empire. He said that America's refusal to admit to "what it was" meant it risked never learning the lessons of British expansionism.

A concise dissection of the new U.S. unilateralism, Power Trip is the first book-length critique of this fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy to consolidate and extend U.S. global control. Exploring the transformation of U.S. foreign policy begun by the Bush administration when it took office in 2001 and implemented with greater ease and heightened zeal after September 11, Power Trip introduces the cast of characters responsible for the new U.S. power trip and wrestles with the consequences of the new trends in U.S. foreign policy.

Statement of Administration Policy H.R. 1588, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004

Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons.  The Administration appreciates the support for research of low yield nuclear weapons in section 3111.  However, maintaining the prohibition on development will hinder the ability of our scientists and engineers to explore technical options to deter national security threats of the 21st century.  A complete repeal of section 3136 of the FY 1994 National Defense Authorization Act is needed.  This in no way would usurp Congress's right to authorize and appropriate the funds necessary to develop and build new or modified nuclear weapons should this or a future President determine that such
weapons were in the supreme interest of the United States.
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sap/108-1/hr1588sap-h.pdf

Bush's bid for new kinds of weapons could put the world on a suicidal course.
It turns out the threat is not from Iraq but from us.

Union of Concerned Scientists Action Network
   Tell Your Senators to Say "No" to New Nukes
The Bush administration is pushing for the development of new nuclear weapons. The White House is interested in smaller, more "usable" nuclear weapons and has asked Congress to lift the 10-year Spratt- Furse ban on the development of new "mini-nukes." The Senate will likely vote next week whether or not to maintain the ban. Take this opportunity to tell your senators to oppose new nuclear weapons: tell them to maintain the Spratt-Furse law.

Move signals big shit in U.S. weapon strategy
How much more is needed for the common folks in the US to react and to say NO!      Mercury News

If concern is growing that ideological convictions at the Defense Department resulted in costly miscalculations regarding the war in Iraq, even greater alarm is warranted by glaring missteps in the preparation for what comes after the war.

Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan.
Ever since the neo-cons burst upon the public policy scene 30 years ago, their movement has been a marriage of moral idealism, military assertiveness, and deception.