The stark fact that significant portions of our planet are under the supervision of quite exceptionally stupid and ill-informed people is provoking unwonted expressions of anger and alarm. It is hard to think of people more demure in rhetorical comportment than senior envoys of the United Nations or of the British foreign office. Yet here we have Lakhdar Brahimi, a U.N. undersecretary general and special adviser to Kofi Annan erupting in Baghdad like a soapbox orator.

            "There is no doubt," Brahimi told French Inter Radio last week, "that the great poison in the region is this Israeli policy of domination and the suffering imposed on the Palestinians, as well as the perception of all of the population in the region and beyond of the injustice of this policy and the equally unjust support ... of the United States for this policy . There are quite a few other people on this planet, and the Americans should also make an effort to learn how to live with them."

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Mr. Martin, [Canadian Parliament]

Bob Fitrakis is a poli-sci prof at Columbus State and a widely published commentator. In the pasted on op-ed he looks at three recent books by Washington insiders - not authors from the liberal left as he points out - and concludes that given the evidence of Iraq war planning going back to at least late 2001 George Bush should be tried as a war criminal.

Harsh unreality? Politically unbalanced or naive? Read his arguments.

Mr. Martin, I have sent you 20 plus almost weekly 'Silence is appeasement' messages containing the best op-eds and scholarly papers documenting the evidence about illegal war in Iraq. Cumulatively they provide quite a case, including or maybe highlighted by:

Today while blocked from the Independent newspaper of London came across Free Press and read all the articles for this month.

  Your article 'IS THERE A THIRD OPTION ?' immediately caught my attention as I have advocated the following on  the Independent 'have your say ' column  for months past :-

1.  America should involve more Moslem countries in the 'Peace' keeping forcesi       Pakistan being part of the British Commonwealth with it's officers trained at       Sandhurst has a good rapport with the British army. That country could send a contingent       of troops, I suggest Sikhs to patrol alongside the British who over a period of time are       withdrawn to be replaced by other non-aligned UN troops.

      Other Moslem countries could do the same, perhaps Malaysia, indonesia or Egypt could send       soldiers to patrol with the Americans until they are slowly withdrawn and replaced by       Norwegians, Irish or other UN contingents. India could contribute a Brigade of Gurkhas.

2.  The government of Iraq should be placed in the hands of the UN as a Trust territory for a period