Perspectives

"The trial of Saddam Hussein as a war criminal will be a good opportunity to demonstrate to many Arabs what the fate of those that oppress their own people."

"What the arrogant President Bush did in the Jose Padilla case was to unlawfully seize the authority of the other two branches of the government: the Legislative and Judicial, unto himself. In effect, he became Padilla’s judge, jury and sheriff! Come to think of it, he unlawfully usurped Congress’s power “to declare war,” when he ordered the invasion of Iraq. The evidence shows that Bush is a serial offender of the U.S. Constitution."

"There is no need now for U.S. military presence whatsoever. There is no need for U.S. corporations in Iraq to rebuild the country. Let the Iraq's rebuild their own country. They built it in the first place without U.S. corporations in charge! If the Iraqis want to hire U.S. contractors, let the Iraqis make that decision!"

"If the greatest threat to constitutional freedoms weighs heaviest on the backs of the minority, then a prime candidate for this can easily be found in enemy combatants such as Jose Padilla."

"The President’s cavalcade almost came to grief recently when sophisticated explosive devices blew gaping holes in the bridge the convoy was crossing on its way from Islamabad International Airport to the Army House, the explosion shattering windows in a wide area in the vicinity."

"The world will stand trial with Saddam Hussein, but particularly the Muslim world, since it was on the watch of the secular Muslim governments that nationalists hijacked Islam and state sponsored clerics perverted Muslim thinking and attempted to turn our religion into a racist, and anti-woman religion of hate and oppression."

"I sought a soul in the sea, and found a coral there; beneath the foam for me, an ocean was all laid bare."

- Rumi

"...like Saddam, President Bush may ultimately find that his political fate depends on digging himself out of a hole of his own making. Most experts on counterinsurgency expect that the capture of Saddam will not end anti-U.S. attacks in Iraq."