WAR ON IRAK

Al-Ahram: Who is in Charge by Edward Said

A tiny, unelected group, supported by powerful, unrepresentative minorities

The Bush administration's relentless unilateral march towards war is
profoundly disturbing for many reasons, but so far as American citizens
are
concerned the whole grotesque show is a tremendous failure in
democracy.
An immensely wealthy and powerful republic has been hijacked by a small
cabal of individuals, all of them unelected and therefore unresponsive
to
public pressure, and simply turned on its head. It is no exaggeration
to
say that this war is the most unpopular in modern history. Before the
war
has begun there have been more people protesting it in this country
alone
than was the case at the height of the anti-Vietnam war demonstrations
during the 60s and 70s.