-->The excerpt of the following article was written by a business lawyer Christine Qunta and appeared on SA's BUSINESS DAY. I was most surprised to read it in an otherwise very US friendly newspaper and it demonstrates IMO another false assumption of Bush & Co. The shift in worldwide public sentiment is not concentrated on some idealistic peace lovers:

"I do not scare easily. However, US secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gives me sleepless nights every time I see him on TV......
The more I see Rumsfeld the more I am reminded of the mad scientist character in Stanley Kubrick brilliant film Dr. Strangelove....
However, Rumsfeld Cheney and Bush are merely following a long tradition of men( past conscription ) with adolescent fantasies of war games with high tech military gadgets...

I can imagine if Stanley Kubrick was alive, he might have been tempted to make another film even more sardonic than Dr. Strangelove. The final scene would be Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney, flanked by the CEOs of oil and defence corporations marching into Baghdad on the corpses of Iraqi civilians singing merrily ' Oh what a beautiful war. CNN would faithfully record the song and the dances. The corpses of Iraqis would be the background prop."


Cheers
Reinhard