"Highly risky and wrong" is one assesment of the groundhogs spittle laced declaration of war.Declaring the US in 'mortal danger' like a cross between JE Hoover and tricky dickie on speed,the veep dished up some rubber platitudes to go with the rubber chicken;he should have remembered that you are what you eat. I trust chicken hawk will be on the next geriatrics menu.Garnish with a little valium. "The monopoly on the decision and action in this question lies with the United Nations," said Edmund Stoiber, conservative candidate for chancellor There seems to be a little mutiny among the 'usual suspects.' The US is resembling nothing so much as a pitiful helpless giant,cyclops has been gored and the sheep are hiding all those escaping argonauts.If he's lucky he may live...for a while. 52 per cent of Labour supporters believe Britain ought not to support any military action against Iraq.Thats even slightly higher down here I believe,a clear majority against,all the way with the USA.Maybe not,"YANKEE go HOME",just yet but it's only been a year so far in the 'war on Terra.' "Using force or threats of force is unhelpful in solving the Iraq issue and will increase regional instability and tensions," Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan was quoted as saying in Beijing. Taku Yamasaki, secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said that Tokyo had a duty as an ally to oppose Washington. "If the U.S. attacks alone it will produce distrust of the United States throughout the world," Yamasaki said. "As an ally, we should oppose this." India, a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, said its opposition to a war on Iraq had not wavered. "There is a consistency in our policy, and it is not going to change in the next few days or weeks," a foreign ministry official said. In the Middle East, U.S. foes, or nations branded by Washington as sponsors of international terrorism, denounced American threats against Iraq in predictably harsher terms. Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa Mero said his country, along with Iraq and all Arabs, would view any U.S. strike as part of "policies that seek more U.S. hegemony and to inflict harm not just on the people of Iraq but the Arab nation as a whole," Syria's state media reported. Iran, like Iraq branded by Bush as a member (with North Korea) of an "axis of evil," reiterated its opposition to any U.S. attack on Iraq. Iranian President Mohammad Khatami urged an "arrogant" Washington to drop its hostility and improve ties with Iran, saying his country would defend itself if it too came under threat. "We hope Iraq will not be attacked, and if this occurs we hope that (America) will not try its luck by attacking other countries and realize that American public opinion will not tolerate this policy for very long," Khatami said. A global Maniac cop running around starting wars will not be long for this world,pr