Conn Hallinan

When the Bush administration totals up the cost of the Iraq War it had best be prepared to tack on billions more to clean up the toxic residue of how this country wages war, specifically its widespread use of cluster weapons and Depleted Uranium (DU).

There were no surprises in President Bush’s address to Congress, except maybe the firm statement that within a month our country will be at war.

If one adds up all the costs of war beyond the $355.5 billion military budget, the U.S. spends in excess of $465 billion each year for defense, or $1.2 billion a day.

With congressional support safely tucked away, it is now just a matter of time before the Bush administration invades Iraq.

Wars are waged with the bodies of the young, and they always come home.

The only parties celebrating this recent move are the madmen on both sides who would plunge Northern Ireland back into civil war.

Entitled the Millennium Challenge Account, the administration says it will be doled out to countries like Senegal, Ghana, Bolivia, and Honduras if they institute “the rule of law,” as well as “sound fiscal policies.”

Much of the responsibility for this rests on the shoulders of the Clinton administration, which knew what was happening to Iraq’s children.

As tensions between India and Pakistan began building late last year, high-level delegations from the United States and Britain flew in and out of New Delhi and Karachi

The U.S. Congress and the White House have chosen the latter course.

There are people of good will on both sides, people not blinded by the illusion that violence solves everything.

As long as the U.S., China, Britain, France, Russia, and Israel have nuclear weapons, we will all live on the edge of the abyss.

Bush administration officials argue that the Indonesian army has reformed since the bad old days of two years ago and needs our help in its struggle against terrorism. They are wrong.

U.S. foreign policy has been hijacked by a group of unelected unilateralists who seem determined to drag America into an endless morass of brushfire wars to achieve the goal of unrestrained power.

Venezuela is not just another banana-oil republic; and the United States has, once again, deeply damaged itself in Latin America.